antipodes

• “Like Borochov, Lieberman is a Russian-speaking Jew and a committed Zionist, but his vision of peace and stability is at antipodes from the one Borochov set forth in 1917.”

  "Israel Is Our Home"

• “This artful separation of what was actually perfectly consistent behavior into bogus antipodes is why My Life's therapeutic grid is pure scaffolding, about as meaningful as the little backdrop mantras (for example, "Strong American Communities") that Clinton's White House made a staple of presidential speeches.”

  Policy Wank

• “There was, however, considerable tension over any idea that the lands on the opposite ends of the earth otherwise known as antipodes could be inhabited by people.”

  Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds

• “Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?””

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “How at the antipodes was the picture he was seeing!”

  The Man from the Bitter Roots

• “Mr. Newton took me everywhere, even to the little seventeenth-century Swedish church, which architecturally may be described as the antipodes of Philadelphia's newer glory, the Curtis”

  Roving East and Roving West

• “The doctrine of the sphericity of the earth naturally led to thought regarding its inhabitants, and another ancient germ was warmed into life -- the idea of antipodes: of human beings on the earth's opposite sides.”

  A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

• “Viola's profuse thanks were crossed by Lady Diana's curt apologies; and as poor Piggy, who had genuinely overslept himself, entered with his apologies -- poor fellow -- in a voice very much as if he was trying to say "Grumph, grumph," while he could only say "Wee, wee," they were received solemnly by his uncle with, "The antipodes are a rebuke to you, Pigou.”

  My Young Alcides

• “The chance to lose oneself in live sport instead during those unforgiving hours has been a godsend, and ample justification in my view for the continued existence of the antipodes with their wacky time zones.”

  The Guardian: Why I prefer Blackpool route to the Bondi one | Martin Kelner

• “The two antipodes reflect starkly different views of America's oil-producing potential.”

  The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: How Much Black Gold Is in Them Thar Hills?

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