Since, necessarily, no time elapses in this pretemporal void, then there could be no alteration, and therefore nothing ( including time ) would ever come to be: so the antithesis is proven.

Recent meetings of scholars and clergy have attempted to soften the antithesis between Protestant and Catholic conceptions of the role of faith in salvation, which, if they were successful, would have far reaching implications for the relationship between most Protestants and the Catholic Church.

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 ).

After Hörbiger ’ s death in 1931, the followers of WEL came to the conclusion that given the changing political situation in Germany, aligning the theory with National Socialism would eventually lead to its acceptance ; WEL had already been heavily and successfully promoted as the " German antithesis " of the " Jewish " theory of relativity in the late 1920s.

Its antithesis is Algerian, ideology that Algerians as a whole, beyond linguistic and religious differences, would form a historical nation.

Her antithesis is not Pelor, but Zehir, whose followers use the night as a time to commit acs of evil ; Sehanine would have the night used as a time of refuge and recovery.

He stated that he " never meant < nowiki > Powerd < nowiki ></ nowiki > to be an antithesis to Evangelion " despite the inevitable comparisons they would receive when his own series debuted in 1998.

In the late 19th century the moral and immoral forces came to be represented by Spenta Mainyu and its Satanic antithesis Angra Mainyu, the ' good spirit ' and ' evil spirit ' emanations of Ahura Mazda respectively.

Nestorianism is a form of dyophysitism, and can be seen as the antithesis to monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism.

The antithesis of this is to be against a wall which severely limits the player's movement and allows the opponent an open court.

With neoplatonic and medieval scholastic origins, the metaphysical considerations can be difficult to approach as an exercise in philosophy or theology because any dependencies on its antithesis, the natural, will ultimately have to be inverted or rejected.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

In literary fiction, an antithesis can be used to describe a character who presents the exact opposite as to personality type or moral outlook to another character in a particular piece of literature.

The album's darker style may be considered the antithesis of the happy and optimistic It.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Subud seemed to some to be the antithesis of Gurdjieff's methods for spiritual awakening, and Bennett's enthusiasm for it served to deepen the divisions within the Gurdjieff groups.

A lamer is widely understood to be the antithesis of a hacker.

Whedon intended Riley to be the antithesis of Buffy's boyfriend of the past three seasons, Angel ( David Boreanaz ), who now headed his own spin-off show.

" Napoleon, on the other hand, was the antithesis of republicanism and could not be supported.

Extremely sweet, thoughtful, and kind, Eric is the antithesis of Jaye's often-abrasive personality, although he seems intrigued by her brashness and convinced that she is not as uncaring as she claims to be.

The SHAPE head of security, Colonel Schreiber, was designed to be the antithesis of Bond, with greying hair, the air of a bank manager, desk with silver framed photographs of his family and a single white rose ; the description shows Fleming using colour to show Schreiber's lack of colour and personality.

Anyone on the team can use a trait given by the audience, sometimes creating two characters on the same trait, or one on the original trait, and another on its antithesis.

Beef ( Buford Wilson ) is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, a mutant from the Hellions group created as the antithesis to the X-Men's junior team of mutants, the New Mutants.

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.

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.

The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

The force of the antithesis is increased if the words on which the beat of the contrast falls are alliterative, or otherwise similar in sound.

The Aventine Triad has been described as parallel to the Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus on the Capitoline Hill, within the city's sacred boundary ( pomerium ): and as its " copy and antithesis ".

Clayborne early on debates Saxifrage Russell over the proper role of humanity on Mars and though initially apolitical, this stance marks her as the original " Red ," while Russell's hands-on terraforming reflects the antithesis of these views.

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 ).

Borrowing language and concepts from a wide variety of philosophical schools, especially Edmund Husserl, the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms -- and, as some contend, Franz Xaver von Baader, Dooyeweerd builds on this foundation of a supposed " antithesis " to make distinctions between one kind of thinking and another, theorizing that diverse kinds of thinking disclose diverse kinds of meaning, and that this meaning corresponds in some way to the actual state of affairs.

" The constant tendency of his mind towards antithesis and the balancing of opinions did not lead to paralysis in time of action — he did not shrink from responsibility, nor show on any occasion lack of courage.

I was the antithesis of the little kid that I played on the television show.

The quasielemental planes were never mentioned in 3rd edition at all, although an article on the Plane of Radiance appeared in Dragon # 321 as the antithesis of the Plane of Shadow rather than as a quasielemental plane.

The story could be considered a variation on and antithesis to the Classical myth of Odysseus, who after an absence of 20 years at the Trojan War and at sea found a faithful wife who had been loyally waiting for him.

One of Klapwijk's first attempts to articulate this critical stance for his philosophical community occurred in a widely-read volume edited by Hendrik Hart, Johan van der Hoeven, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, reviewed in Theology Today, by Eugene Osterhaven: " An excellent chapter on ' Rationality in the Dutch Neo-Calvinist Tradition ' by Jacob Klapwijk ... treats Abraham Kuyper's doctrines of common grace, and the antithesis, and his failure to harmonize the two, especially when he dealt with human reason.

Retreating into a massive cavern beneath the Himalayas, with the intent of emerging to retake the world when the Ice Age had passed, the Cobra-Lavians were shocked to discover that the primitive barbarians that they had left on the surface managed to survive and flourish, evolving in body and mind and developing inorganic technology, the complete antithesis of Cobra-La.