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diametrical

[dahy-uh-me-tri-kuhl] / ˌdaɪ əˈmɛ trɪ kəl /


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And though the two movies look like diametrical opposites, they share a pair of undeniable throughlines: the aching, all-consuming feeling of desire and the remarkable actors chosen to depict it.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

The diametrical pair overtook Holmes in the primary.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

But van Eyck’s “Crucifixion” and “Last Judgment” panels, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, take this diametrical effect to an astonishing level of visual intensity.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2020

He said he has come to believe that journalism and cinema aren't just incompatible but diametrical.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2016

This diametrical antagonism between the two philosophers is not limited to their first principles, but extends, as might naturally be expected, to every subordinate science of which the immediate object is mental, and not material.

From The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Mansel, Henry Longueville




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