Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the 19th century and beyond — a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals — although from the late 19th century on it had often been considered anti-modern, or even reactionary, in influential critical circles.

Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the 19th century and beyond — a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals — although from the late 19th century on it had often been considered anti-modern, or even reactionary, in influential critical circles.

Their art, though varying in style and technique, was the antithesis of the type of Academic art in which Beaux was trained and of which her teacher William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a leading master.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

Garth's first weekend on shows in Vegas received positive reviews and was called the " antithesis of Vegas glitz and of the country singer's arena and stadium extravaganzas " by USA Today.

He was the antithesis of old, conservative Germans like Bismarck, addicted to the new imperialism that was taking place in Asia and Africa.

* Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis ( 1938 ), was written as a conscious answer and antithesis to the works of H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon.

Being pressured by his advisers to declare coffee the " bitter invention of Satan " because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine ( which was used in the Eucharist ), upon tasting it he instead declared that, " This devil's drink is so delicious ... we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.

The concept of free trade was an antithesis to the will and economic direction of the sovereigns of the ancient Greek states.

Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.

Monophysitism was born in the theological " School of Alexandria ," which began its Christological analysis with the ( divine ) eternal Son or Word of God and sought to explain how this eternal Word had become incarnate as a man -- in contrast to the " School of Antioch " ( birthplace of Nestorianism, the antithesis of Monophysitism ), which instead began with the ( human ) Jesus of the Gospels and sought to explain how this man had become united with the eternal Word in the Incarnation.

Kaufman saw Clifton as the antithesis of the sweet, gentle " Foreign Man " character he was best known for ( which was later adapted into Latka Gravas, Kaufman's character on Taxi ).

Many people misunderstood Kaufman's intent, focusing on the character's foul language and prima donna antics while failing to appreciate the fact that Clifton was meant to be the comic antithesis of the typical lounge singer, a bland, genial entertainer designed to add a touch of class to a hotel and make guests feel welcome.

In a 1988 study of the LSO in Gramophone magazine James Jolly wrote that Abbado was in many ways the antithesis of Previn in terms of style and repertoire, bringing to the orchestra a particular authority in the Austro-German classics as well as a commitment to the avante-garde.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

The same antithesis was noted by conservative commentator Noah Millman

The clash of both was " superated " in the synthesis, a conjunction that conserved the contradiction between thesis and its antithesis while sublating it.

As Marx famously explained afterwards, concretely that meant that if Louis XVI's monarchic rule in France was seen as the thesis, the French Revolution could be seen as its antithesis.

The bishōnen was conceived of as " aesthetically different from both women and men [...] both the antithesis and the antecedent of adult masculinity ".

" The term was coined as an antithesis to the word hierarchy ( literally, sacred rules ).

This was Whiggism at its most intellectually refined, the very antithesis of the Tory belief in sacred authority in both church and state.

The " antithesis " must be accounted for as a foundational issue, in any complete philosophy, and this antithesis is religious in nature, according to Dooyeweerd.

" Spinoza expressly denies personality and consciousness to God ; he has neither intelligence, feeling, nor will ; he does not act according to purpose, but everything follows necessarily from his nature, according to law ...." Thus, Spinoza's cool, indifferent God is the antithesis to the concept of an anthropomorphic, fatherly God who cares about humanity.

On the other hand, Hegel did use a three-valued logical model that is very similar to the antithesis model, but Hegel's most usual terms were: Abstract-Negative-Concrete.

His final reference to war and Politik, however, goes beyond his widely quoted antithesis: " War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.

Especially with respect to the aggregating by David of the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Laws into a single family, David argued that the antithesis between the Anglo-Saxon Laws and Romano-German Laws, is of a technical rather than of an ideological nature.

That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb .— Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

Dario Sabbatucci has stressed the feature of bearing instability and the antithesis to cosmic order of this god, who threatens the kingly power of Jupiter as Stator and Centumpeda and whose presence occurs side by side with Janus's on January 1.

Skylights are the antithesis of zero energy building Passive Solar Cooling in climates with an air conditioning requirement.

In 1905, Richmond confirmed their status with a second premiership, this time overcoming bitter rivals North Melbourne, a club perceived as the antithesis of Richmond.

From about the mid-1960s into the 1970s, often derived from concepts of visual art, with respect to Antonin Artaud, Dada, the Situationists, Fluxus, Installation art, and Conceptual Art, performance art tended to be defined as an antithesis to theatre, challenging orthodox art forms and cultural norms.

Those authorized to teach the doctrine had always stressed the strict covenants, obligations and responsibilities associated with it — the antithesis of license.

It is held in some circles that he lays too much stress upon the " concept ," and explains too much by the Hegelian antithesis of subjective and objective despite the fact that his history of Greek philosophy is a noble monument of solid learning informed with natural sagacity.

Hegel argued that history is a constant process of dialectic clash, with each thesis encountering an opposing idea or event antithesis.

While tapu is considered a positive force, associated with life, immortality, masculine objects and women of the highest rank, noa is its antithesis, a negative force associated with death and feminine objects.

Apart from the Churches, men like Carlyle and Matthew Arnold -- with whom he had much in common -- influenced him ; while Herbert Spencer in England and Auguste Comte in France afforded the antithesis needful to the dialectical development of his own views.

This antithesis of what is considered feminine behaviour, and many other works in which there appears to be either the threat of female violence or its actual manifestation, has associated Rego with feminism, and she has acknowledged reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, a key feminist text, at a young age and this making a deep impression on her.

* antonym: a word with the exact opposite meaning of another word ; an antithesis: often shown in opposite word pairs such as " high " and " low " ( compare with " synonym ")

The history of any such human endeavor, moreover, not only builds upon but also reacts against what has gone before ; this is the source of Hegel's famous dialectic teaching usually summed up by the slogan " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ".

Some, such as those of modern Hipster culture, have stated that they see mainstream as the antithesis of individuality.

Therefore, very often some binary divisions are stressed, such as: professional — amateur, mass — top-level, active — passive / spectator, men — women, sports-play ( as an antithesis to organized and institutionalized activity ).

Oubliettes and dungeons were a favourite topic of nineteenth century gothic novels or historical novels, where they appeared as symbols of hidden cruelty and tyrannical power, the very antithesis of Enlightenment values such as justice and freedom.

Linehan and others combined a commitment to the core conditions of acceptance and change through the Hegelian principle of dialectical progress ( in which thesis + antithesis → synthesis ) and assembled an array of skills for emotional self-regulation drawn from Western psychological traditions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and an interpersonal variant, " assertiveness training ", and Eastern meditative traditions, such as Buddhist mindfulness meditation.

" Civilised " citizens regarded wild men as beings of the wilderness, and as such as representing the antithesis of civilization.

Pioneers such as Max Schubert tried to make the best table wine possible, using the best grapes he could find regardless of where they came from, the antithesis of the Old World passion for terroir.

Its later proponents ( such as Tocqueville, Constant, Montesquieu, John Locke, David Hume and John Stuart Mill, who accepted Chrysippus ' understanding of self-determination ) insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were ( and are ) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint in the manner of rationalists and the philosophical harbingers of totalitarianism.

The original Latin of this prayer is crudely metrical and incantatory ; even in Old Latin, the prayer contains many rhetorical figures such as alliteration and liberal use of merisms and antithesis.

Parallelism is often achieved in conjunction with other stylistic principles, such as antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symploce.

...... is one that redefines the terms, such that nature is no longer understood as the unproblematic opposite of culture, death no longer the mere antithesis of life.

For example, Ellis Woodman, Building Designs architecture critic, said of the design: " The principle of it being dismountable is most welcome ... it demonstrates an obvious interest in establishing an economy of means and as such is the antithesis of the 2008 Olympic stadium in Beijing.

In keeping with her quest to avoid reductive conceptions of issues such as justice and democratic participation, she also argues that social theorists should synthesize elements of critical theory and post-structuralism, overcoming the " false antithesis " between the two, in order to gain a fuller understanding of the social and political issues with which both approaches are concerned.

The English in Jamestown and those later in Plymouth were the antithesis of each other — with those in Virginia composed of titled leaders who were in charge of often inexperienced settlers and soldiers who were veterans of European wars, such as Capt.

Their acoustic, melodic pop songs written by singer and guitarist Ulf Risnes represented an antithesis to the predominant punk-inspired rock played by bands such as Dum Dum Boys or Raga Rockers.