Sentences with 'antithesis'

Example sentences and phrases with the word antithesis and other words derived from it.


« Slavery was the antithesis of the middle-class view that dignity and respectability were achieved through work, and many members of this class were active in efforts to end it. »
« It is believed that antiprotons, the antithesis of protons in antimatter, have already mostly disintegrated, and were originally outnumbered by protons enough to form the cosmos, or that antiprotons disintegrate faster, which means that protons - presumably - disintegrate too, just at a different rate. »
« It was against the backdrop of this descent into what Europeans and Americans often called "barbarism" - the old antithesis of the "true" civilisation that began with the Greeks - that the history of Western civilisation first emerged as a textbook subject and, soon, as a mainstay of university curricula. »

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