| She was bats and contrary, but she seemed to be self-aware and have a genuine sense of humour about her own battiness and contrariness. |
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| The more fervently humans believe, the more fervently they feel that contrariness is a threat. |
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| His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity. |
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| He was known for his art-world contrariness and for going against mainstream trends. |
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| I am the child of their ancestral dissonance with all its contrariness and overlappings. |
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| Indeed, a little contrariness by someone — where is the Democratic counterpart to McCain on this issue? |
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| That much contrariness is no surprise though, Since white stands for the beginning and the end and purity and death. |
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| There was a contrariness there which, she admits, remains in character. |
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| If he were assuming his role as a member of the NTC, his thought process might lean more toward judiciousness than contrariness. |
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| A rejection of politics, a contrariness, and a great deal of anti-Sarkozy feeling. |
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| In light of her health crisis, her adherents found Lemken's contrariness offensively callous. |
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| That act, like those moments from Garbo, Gish, and Brooks, suggests a vein of contrariness and complication, the astonishments of art. |
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| The fickleness, contrariness, and outright perfidy of Supreme Court Justices have exasperated the politicians who appointed them almost since the first days of the Republic. |
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| Whatever McCarthy's shortcomings — and even in the period of his lionization a streak of contrariness was evident in his nature — he did not lose the White House for the Democrats. |
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| This diverseness must be respected by every person's style and mode of expression being taken seriously, by their contrariness being respected and their otherness being accepted. |
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