counterpose

Example Sentences

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In contrast to Wife Guys like Tripp, the "Wife Didn't Approve" guy — or Anti-Wife Guy, as I call them — defines his identity as counterposed to his wife.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2019

To a civilization shaped by unappeasable human will and ambition Gandhi counterposed a civilization organized around self-limitation and ethical conduct.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

But Vermont nurses know that the two issues are not counterposed: if the care of patients is to be valued at all, the providers of that care must themselves be valued and materially supported.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2018

Winters dutifully traces Shepard’s major themes: the mutability of identity counterposed against the taint of heredity, the blight of “progress” and the fatal consequences of our alienation from the land.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

To Watson and Crick, the double-helix model of DNA—with two complementary “yin-yang” strands counterposed against each other—instantly suggested a mechanism for replication.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee