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Example sentences for: athwart

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His desire to use literary criticism as a weapon on the side of the oppressed sits athwart the pleasure he takes in letting his mind play over the meaning in a novel or a poem.
A big color shot of the president greeting an exuberant crowd of young people sits athwart the NYT lead story about the Monica meeting and astride its story about his trip yesterday to the Midwest.