Opposites
['ɑpəzɪt]
Examples
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were two opposites, his will and the resistant Matter of the earth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, he said, they are opposites. Plato. The Republic.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. Plato. The Republic.
- The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Meg was Amy's confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All these qualities, in him usually so light and careless, she felt to be inseparable from some touch of their opposites in her own breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, a dance of opposites. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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