antithesesExtreme theses andantithesesgarner more attention, increase citation rates, and sell books.From theCambridge English CorpusInstitutions and human actions, complements andantitheses, are forever remaking each other in the endless drama of the social process.From theCambridge English CorpusYet theantithesesostensibly at stake in this process are themselves complicated and deceptive.From theCambridge English CorpusThey posited metaphysical intervention, spiritualism, imagination, and elitism as theantithesesto sweeping rationalism, simplification, and mass culture.From theCambridge English CorpusIdeally, such awareness should lead to a more mature ranking of the values andantitheseswhich went into its making.From theCambridge English CorpusThe only way in which the city could be conceived of as a single system was throughantithesessuch as the three discussed above.From theCambridge English CorpusIn the world today we face two great economicantitheses.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Economic development and the protection of the environment are notantitheses.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Now, how are all these curiousantithesesto be explained?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Too often it is conducted in terms of unbridgeable opposites, falseantithesesand exaggerated choices.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Are they notantithesesof each other?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0He used the most extravagant metaphors, the most forcedantithesesand the most far-fetched conceits.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historians have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities fromantitheses, thus having latent political import.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He sought to go beyond theseantithesesto a synthesis.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The flat functions are, in some sense, theantithesesof the analytic functions.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/antitheses##
