Example sentences for: antithesis

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

  • The English writer Daniel O'Brien, in his modest, more objective new book, Clint Eastwood Film-Maker , suggests that Eastwood wouldn't actually put up with Parker for a second: The saxophonist's unruly passion, his commitment to his art, is the antithesis of Eastwood's manly, frugal, shoot-it-and-move-on way of working.

  • Slate's dialogues tend to feature not just thesis and antithesis, but a bit of synthesis as well.

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

  • Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.

  • In a way a joke, in its structure, is the antithesis of a witticism in that is usually placed within a narrative framework and withholds any response until the punch line is reached.


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