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  • noun Plural form of antithesis.

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  • It is easy to oppose inspiration to scholastic culture; to coin antitheses between nature and art; and to say that Shakspeare's Romans are more ideally true than Niebuhr's.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic.

    Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History 1896

  • Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out.

    The top-five-philosophers meme Mike L 2006

  • Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006

  • Saunders also helped explain a cryptic remark by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Monday, when he said the new hotspots would make stores the "antitheses" of a cyber cafe.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • The stylistic and aesthetic differences and antitheses are palpable.

    Cranach's Femme Fatales Highlight 'The Other Renaissance' Francesca Angelini 2010

  • The ability to work and enjoy the fruits of one's own labor is the very antitheses of slavery, an institution so insidious that it took a civil war and three separate amendments to begin to dismantle it.

    The Time For Judicial Engagement 2011

  • The ability to work and enjoy the fruits of one's own labor is the very antitheses of slavery, an institution so insidious that it took a civil war and three separate amendments to begin to dismantle it.

    The Time For Judicial Engagement 2011

  • In his manner of exploring an idea by antitheses (for example, “On the Past and the Future” [1821], “On the Picturesque and Ideal” [1821]), he contrasts the utmost achievements of human mechanical skill with the nature of artistic creativity in “The Indian Jugglers” [1821].

    March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • In his manner of exploring an idea by antitheses (for example, “On the Past and the Future” [1821], “On the Picturesque and Ideal” [1821]), he contrasts the utmost achievements of human mechanical skill with the nature of artistic creativity in “The Indian Jugglers” [1821].

    william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

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