antithetic

Examples of antithetic in the following topics:

• Anticipating Potential Objections

  • Hastening death can seem antithetical to the goals of medicine, and the artificial extension of life through invasive and/or risky medical procedures often does not provide an easier alternative.
  • Hastening death can seem antithetical to the goals of medicine, and the artificial extension of life through invasive and/or risky medical procedures often does not provide an easier alternative.

• The Last Days of the Federal Presidency: The Midnight Judges

  • At first glance, this decision seems antithetical to Federalist interests.

• The Act of Defining: Conceptual Engineering

  • One's goal may be to clarify though, to help people make a distinction that is usually glossed over or ignored, or it may be the antithetical goals of confusing thought or of getting people to forget about a distinction that they are now inclined to make.

• The Benefits of Communism

  • Both cultural and educational policy in communist states have emphasized the development of a "New Man"—a class-conscious, knowledgeable, heroic, proletarian person devoted to work and social cohesion, as opposed to the antithetic "bourgeois individualist" associated with cultural backwardness and social atomization.

• The Importance of Addressing Opposing Views

  • Hastening death can seem antithetical to the goals of medicine, and the artificial extension of life through invasive and/or risky medical procedures often does not provide an easier alternative.

• A World War

  • They sought to offset the disadvantage this created in Europe by allying themselves with one or more Continental powers whose interests were antithetical to those of their enemies, particularly France.

• Slavery and Politics

  • In the minds of the Democratic-Republicans, this paradoxical cycle of master-slave relations was in no way antithetical to republican principles and individual freedom.

• Slavery in the Antebellum Period

  • However, by 1804, all states north of the Mason-Dixon Line had either abolished slavery outright or passed laws for the gradual abolition of slavery based upon abolition movements that viewed the practice of slavery as unethical, antithetical to the core principles of the United States, and detrimental to the rights of all free persons.

• Vorticism

  • Arguments arose that the values of the artist and those of society were not merely different, but that Society was antithetical to Progress, and could not move forward in its present form.