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Example sentences for "diametrically opposed"

  • The first proposition is true: the last is diametrically opposed to the truth.

  • Even in this sense, or to this extent, his positive assertion is so diametrically opposed to the plainest facts of history, that it is difficult to conceive how he could have persuaded himself of its truth.

  • The principles of his legislation are, indeed, so diametrically opposed to the political notions of the abolitionist, that the latter is sadly perplexed to dispose of them.

  • If the gospel be diametrically opposed to the principles of slavery, it must be opposed to the practice of slavery; and, therefore, were the principles of the gospel fully adopted, slavery could not exist.

  • It seems to be a postulate in his mind that the gospel is diametrically opposed to, and subversive of, the principles of slavery.

  • His stomach rejects all forms of food, and this renders the highest triumph of his love for the artificial possible: he is obliged to be nourished by means of peptonized injections, hence, in a way, diametrically opposed to nature.

  • It is evident that one of these affirmations is diametrically opposed to the other.

  • Although the line of demarcation is rather uncertain, one can mark off two psychological types which are obviously different; their psychology is diametrically opposed.

  • They know that the psychoanalyst's method of working is diametrically opposed to that of the hypnotist.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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