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How to use contrariety in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contrariety? Here are some examples.

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Taking his cue again from Blake rather than Hegel, Prynne argues that contrariety is not the same thing as opposition.
Submission to the fundamental contrariety of human nature amounts to an acceptance of the fact that the psyche is at cross purposes with itself.
Indeed the contrariety of individuals often means precisely that we can only get at the institutions which individuals pass through.
This is connected to his distaste for any hint of social determinism, and his eulogising of the essay format as the most suitable means of conveying human contrariety.
At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.
This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
Hodgkin has long been alone in his command of such nuances, and shows no sign of abandoning his recherche of emotional truths, in all their elusiveness and contrariety.
In a materialistic society, young people have their attitudes shaped by a commercial pre-packaged youth culture which encourages precocity and contrariety towards authority.
The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
Examples from Classical Literature
The case is the same with contrariety, and with the degrees of any quality.
The child puzzled him by her contrariety, yet she was not a troublesome child.
On this subject, however, I believe there is no contrariety of opinion.
She was low-spirited too, impatient with the contrariety of fate.
Hence, again, a strong source of contrariety between the two sexes.
For then this league had no being, and a non-ens can have no contrariety.
The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
The same contrariety in his members seemed to exist throughout the whole man.
If you had any real griefs you'd be ashamed to waste a tear on this little contrariety.
But such as they were, it may well be supposed how eagerly she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion they excited.
Bob proved a handful of impishness and contrariety, and he tried out his rider as much as his rider tried him out.
It is certain that sedentary, and within-door arts, and delicate manufactures, have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition.
But the distinction that Alexander had made between the Stoa and Epicurus was one of contrariety rather than contradiction.
The cause of this contrariety lies not far beneath the surface.
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