set at odds
Example Sentences
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This immense architectural tome — spanning three decades, weighing in at 11 pounds — establishes once and for all that sustainability and style need not be set at odds.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
Ibsen’s incarnation of the fairy tale, for example, also works as a social satire of a community set at odds with its individuals and that emphasizes status over human empathy.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2021
The book is as attentive to the women united and set at odds by their dependence on Jobs as it is to Jobs himself.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018
He understands "occupational psychosis": that disease of specialized thinking by which human beings, in this age, are most inevitably set at odds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Lewiston was a young man, small-featured, black-haired, smooth-shaven, and with an air of nattiness and fashion set at odds at present by a very pale and anxious face and eager, dilated black eyes.
From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday
