Example sentences for: antithesis

How can you use “antithesis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Possibly the antithesis of literalist theories, this approach assumes that the Scriptures were written solely for the purpose of conveying a moral message.

  • As the Hispanic world well knows, the word in Spanish for advertising is ‘propaganda’, its meaning derived literally from the propagation of the faith, the antithesis of science's Enlightenment ideals.

  • Rothschild seems, in particular, to view evolutionary thinking as the antithesis of "equilibrium economics."

  • Henry Adams posited an antithesis between the Dynamo and the Virgin--the mysterious electrical generators he saw at the Great Exhibition of 1900 and the religious devotion that built Chartres Cathedral.

  • Consider its antithesis.


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