Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet ANTITHESIS

Definition av ANTITHESIS

1. antites
2. motsats

Exempel på hur man kan använda ANTITHESIS i en mening

• Analysts group metaphors with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile.
• As such, Bag End represents the familiar, safe, comfortable place which is the antithesis of the dangerous places that they visit.
• Aristotle states that antithesis in rhetoric is similar to syllogism due to the presentation of two conclusions within a statement.
• Whedon intended Riley to be the antithesis of Buffy's boyfriend of the past three seasons, Angel (David Boreanaz), who now headed his own spin-off show.
• The school is the antithesis of the type of posh girls' boarding school depicted by Enid Blyton or Angela Brazil; its female pupils are bad and often well armed, and mayhem is rife.
• Formalism remains one of the most influential and important theories of adjudication and has been called the thesis to which realism is the antithesis.
• By borrowing the conventions of popular music, the antithesis of this stereotype, the church restated the claims of the Bible through Christian lyrics, and thus sent the message that Christianity was not outdated or irrelevant.
• This was a form of dialectic in which the audience could identify with the patriotism either sincerely (the thesis) or ironically (the antithesis) and so set the tone of the interpretation for the remainder of the film.
• In the Valentinian system it stands in antithesis to the essential incomprehensible Godhead, as 'the circle of the Divine attributes,' the various means by which God reveals Himself: it is the totality of the thirty aeons or emanations which proceed from God, but are separated alike from Him and from the material universe.
• The euphuistic sentence followed principles of balance and antithesis to their extremes, purposely using the latter regardless of sense.
• The motto represents the "idea of betrayal", one of the main themes in the Kosovo Myth – the antithesis of Miloš Obilić's heroism embodied in the figure of Vuk Branković, which legend holds fled the battlefield, the moral of the story being that discord and betrayal among the Serbs had doomed the nation to fall.
• His stage presence was seen as being "candid and cool, the antithesis of the slick comic," stated theater critic Gerald Nachman.
• Chack is famous for his Chax product line, and especially the character Gloomy Bear, The design is an antithesis to the excessively cute products produced by the likes of Disney and Sanrio.
• Master of Magic splits spells into six schools of magic: Life Magic, which heals and protects; its antithesis Death Magic, which drains life and creates undead; Chaos Magic, which warps targets and spews destructive energies; Nature Magic, which controls the weather and turns it against the enemy; Sorcery, which manipulates the air and subverts the effects of the other schools; and Arcane Magic, which is a general school and free for all.
• With the promise of being "the antithesis of tacky," for which the ceremony would have no host, as it would rotate actors and actresses instead generally put in pairs as part of Carr's theme of "couples, companions, costars, and compadres", with the most notable pair being Bob Hope and Lucille Ball (in her final public appearance before her death just a few weeks later).
• That approach is the antithesis of situational language teaching, which emphasizes learning by text and prioritizes grammar over communication.
• In the tumultuous decades following Reconstruction, when hatreds lingered and many whites worked to re-establish white supremacy, Grady popularized an antithesis between the "old South" which "rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth," and a "new south" – "thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity:".
• Its later proponents (such as Tocqueville, Constant, Montesquieu, John Locke, David Hume and John Stuart Mill, who accepted Chrysippus' understanding of self-determination) insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were (and are) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint in the manner of rationalists and the philosophical harbingers of totalitarianism.
• By late July "Tiger" and "Dum Dum Diddle" were recorded, considered by biographer Carl Magnus Palm as the "complete antithesis" of each other,.
• Broadacre City was the antithesis of a city and the apotheosis of the newly born suburbia, shaped through Wright's particular vision.

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