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Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy.
* 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.
Nestorianism is a form of dyophysitism, and can be seen as the antithesis to monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism.
The antithesis to this alienation is freedom.
The concept of free trade was an antithesis to the will and economic direction of the sovereigns of the ancient Greek states.
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.
In opposition to Schopenhauer, Nietzsche viewed tragedy as the art form of sensual acceptance of the terrors of reality and rejoicing in these terrors in love of fate ( amor fati ), and therefore as the antithesis to the Socratic Method, or the belief in the power of reason to unveil any and all of the mysteries of existence.
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.
This is, to some, an antithesis to traditional training methods, where training in footwork and arm / weapon movements are intricate and precise and any part of an opponent's body is fair game.
Eventually, Corregidor and its adjacent islets at Manila Bay became the final bastions for holding out against the enemy, antithesis to being the first line of defense for Manila.
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 ).
Shakespeare critic Keith Jones believes that the film in general sets up its main character as a kind of antithesis to Richard III.
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 term was coined as an antithesis to the word hierarchy ( literally, sacred rules ).
In an attempt to add realism to their stories, many writers will try to create " sympathetic " villains, the antithesis to an antihero.
Shinui saw itself as an antithesis to Shas, many of whose MKs have been convicted in various corruption probes.
It is a direct antithesis to the Knight's with none of the nobility or heritage of classical mythology, but is instead rollicking, bawdy, comedic and designed to annoy the Knight.
In Los Angeles and occasionally returning to New York and elsewhere, Manne recorded with musicians of all schools and styles, ranging from those of the swing era through bebop to later developments in modern jazz, including hard bop, usually seen as the antithesis to the cool jazz frequently associated with West Coast playing.
* As a paradigm, usually defined in antithesis to the so-called reductionist paradigm ( biological organisation ), although fully consistent with the scientific method.
The euphuistic sentence followed principles of balance and antithesis to their extremes, purposely using the latter regardless of sense.
Kolkhozy and sovkhozy were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917 as an antithesis to individual or family farming.
Cumberland's Benevolence is, deliberately, the precise antithesis to the egoism of Hobbes.
The design is an antithesis to the excessively cute products produced by Disney, Sanrio's Hello Kitty, and other companies.

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