counterpose
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of counterpose
Example Sentences
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Early users of the term often counterpose it against aristocracy.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2018
But MacBird's basic flaw is that Playwright Garson is a frivolous, scattershot satirist who has no moral vision of her own to counterpose whatever might be regarded as evil in her characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Things are what we in our own thought counterpose to ourselves who think them.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
To the fighting "Holy Alliances" of the governments, we counterpose the brotherhood of the free spirits of the world!
From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain
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
What holds the earth swinging in space is first, the great dynamic attraction to the sun, and then counterposing assertion of independence, singleness, which is polarized in the moon.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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