Examples of antithesis in the following topics:
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- Antithesis is a counter-proposition that denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.
- Antithesis is a way to express contrast through direct opposites.
- Light is the antithesis of dark, heaven is the antithesis of hell, and some would even say that cats are the antithesis of dogs.
- Antithesis is also a way to describe contrasting ideas or themes: genocide is the antithesis of world peace, for example.
- Black is the antithesis of white and vice-versa.
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- The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen by contemporaries in the Age of Enlightenment as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic aesthetic style.
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- The antithesis to this alienation is freedom.
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- The antithesis is essentially 'counter-culture' culture, which dictates the opposite decision-making influence.
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- French Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the nineteenth century and beyond— a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals.
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- The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen — in the Age of Enlightenment — as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic.
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- In a perfectly competitive market, the antithesis of a monopoly, demand is completely elastic and the production quantity and price point align perfectly with marginal costs and actual costs .
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- It therefore tended to be defined as the antithesis to theatre, challenging orthodox art forms and cultural norms.
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- Quality is therefore a strong antithesis to the low-cost strategy.
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- The Jeffersonian conception of the yeoman farmer as the model republican citizen developed under a rising fear that the aggressive Federalist promotion of industry and commerce would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers dependent on others for income and sustenance (the antithesis of the independent, republican citizen).