diametrical

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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

“Their true goal, plutocracy, is the diametrical opposite of freedom,” Smith writes.

From Slate • May 7, 2020

The trick of his rhetoric is soon learned: it consists in substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical antagonist.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John