The praise of Cato formed the fashionable theme of oppositional pamphleteers, and their writings found a public all the more grateful because even literature was no longer free.
An oppositional tone prevails throughout the literature of these years.
Thereupon the oppositional elements increased in numbers and displayed a marked combative disposition.
Hungarian feudal Constitution, with its parliamentary proceedings, and its struggles of the impoverished and oppositional mass of the nobility against the Government and its allies, the magnates.
He reveals a genuine feeling for his subjects, and always tries to introduce into his works a simple oppositional line.
Even in his bathing pieces, whose disproportions are deplored by many, the composition is minutely conceived, not on a simple harmonic figure, but on complicated oppositional planes.
This has been interrupted by the tree masses and sky of the upper side, as the idea of radiation was changed on the left by the oppositional line of branch forms.
A series ofoppositional lines has more picturesqueness than the tangent, its equivalent.
The figure in the foreground is in contrast with the remaining three, both as an oppositional line and in his action, the three being in repose.
The opportunity offered in the film-like cirrus clouds, which so frequently lie as the background to the more positive forms of the cumulous, for securing the oppositional feeling, is one frequently adopted by sky painters.
To one who fences or has used the broad sword a feeling for oppositional line should come as second nature.
The cow in the right foreground is only valuable as an oppositional measure to the line of cows stretching across the picture which it helps to divert, otherwise she carries too much attraction to the side.
Oppositional spots or lines attracting the vision into the land and thus diverting it from the horizontals are the only recourse.
When positive cloud motion is desired these oppositional masses may become very suggestive of wind, different strata showing a contrasted action of air currents.
When this is too apparent a single oppositional figure will destroy its formality.
Successful marines with the camera’s lens pointed squarely at the sea have been produced, but the best of them make use of the modifying lines of the surf, oroppositional lines or gradations in the sky.
The lines are precisely those of the Rubens recently added to the Metropolitan Museum, wherein the figures of Mary, her mother, Christ and John form the arc and the bending form of the monk its oppositional balance.
In the action of the heads and bodies of the two central figures is another strong example of oppositional arrangement.
In the case of the single figure standing within the frame where no chance of contact occurs, the background should show an oppositional mass or line attaching at some point the vertical sides of the figure to the sides of the canvas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oppositional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
