Whit Stillman

What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis - and we never get to a synthesis.

American Director

Kevin Young

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Aaron Stanford

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

American Actor

Kim Brooks

Having a kid who begged for 'just a few more minutes' of television was the antithesis of what I had hoped parenthood would be. It was resigning ourselves to a universe of want and consumption.

American Writer

Maren Morris

Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

American Musician

Amber Rudd

British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which is the antithesis of the values this country represents: decency, tolerance, respect.

British Politician

Ben Fogle

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.

English Writer

Sam Shepard

I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

American Playwright

John O. Brennan

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

American Public Servant

Thomas Sowell

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

American Economist

Use 'antithesis' to talk about two things that are completely opposite in nature or character.

Direct Opposites

By highlighting the antithesis, you can deepen understanding of the original concept.

Understanding Through Contrast

Using 'antithesis' emphasizes the magnitude of difference between opposing ideas or things.

Emphasize Differences

‘Antithesis’ is often used to stress the striking contrast between two contrasting elements.

Highlight Opposition

Use 'antithesis' to draw attention to conflict or incompatibility in concepts or beliefs.

Illustrate Conflict

'Antithesis' in literature creates a stark contrast, making both ideas more prominent.

Contrasting Effect

Writers use 'antithesis' for its rhetorical power to convey strong contrasts and create a memorable argument.

Rhetorical Power

Antithesis often dramatizes the difference between two opposing ideas for effect.

Dramatize Differences

 and in effect go around the world and continue to try and push an agenda of private capitalism and liberal democracy, this is basically going against headwinds, but it also would be a natural stance for the West to take because in many ways it is the antithesis

Dambisa Moyo: Is China...

 and a hole in it for a lot of ways and what what I really liked about them in this particular show is that their path was kind of the antithesis of all the others while everybody else was fighting to survive these guys were getting fat

Watch Wild Predators...

 yourself as part of something larger that they are both the antithesis and the antidote to our age of relentless self-promotion thank you