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46 examples of Opposites in a sentence

The opposites are true.
So light and oxygen are polar opposites from one another from a chemical point of view, and if we can control spatially the light and oxygen, we could control this process.
In this case, opposites attract.
Sancho and Don Quixote are a study in opposites: with one as the grounded realist to the other’s idealism.
In the other two cases, opposites attract.
Headline: [Women in miniskirt attacked at taxi rank] How do I comment on such polar opposites?
And "Opposites attract."
"The Opposites Game" For Patricia Maisch This day my students and I play the Opposites Game with a line from Emily Dickinson.
I can't reconcile the contradiction, except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out.
Opposites attract, but van der Waals can only hold tiny things together.
Opposites again attract, and clusters grow rapidly.
And I know the point of this conference is to celebrate things that are near and dear to us, but I also know that clean and dirty aren't opposites.
How do we create an idea which is both tolerant to individuality, and also to collectivity, without polarizing the two into two different opposites?
The only thing it has to offer is the interesting opposites of Tru and Jack, their choices and viewpoints, and the philosophical questions that it raises.
They seem like opposites, rather uncomfortable together.
Michael Dudikoff and Lisa Howard are two bounty hunters in love, yet they are total opposites.
If it is true that sadomasochism is a two-sided coin which contains the whole in the diverse expression of its opposites, then the cinematic portrait of Erika Kohut has its reality.
Light-hearted, no deep thought needed, but a cute piece about opposites attracting- though her parents are still hippies.... Captures the voice of the early 80's- the whine of the valley and the funk of the other side.
In the Odd Couple, Lemmon and Matthau play complete opposites that create the chaos.
And not only was this a very likable little love story, but it was an incredible character study on how opposites can come to attract and how best friends may sometimes make the best lovers.
Even so, the stars make things work, as they inspire the viewer to want to discover if opposites not only attract but fall in love.
Despite the one very glowing review so far, it must be hard for readers to know what to make of the show since they only two reviews are polar opposites.
This movie illustrates how opposites attract, and then how in a love relationship each partner becomes more like the other as they become a couple.
Their opposites - stinginess, injustice, anger, laziness, distraction, and ignorance - are unsuccessful actions, which lead to negative evolutionary mutations that take you down the chain through animal incarnations."
From the beginning, the juxtaposition of opposites is obvious and the 'tough' bad guy's obsession for this girl displays the fragile emotional nuances of the human condition that can change people for better or for worst.
As with Max Von Sidow's "Joubert" in "Three Days Of The Condor, Robert Duvall's John J. Anderson lives a life of opposites.
Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone, two wonderful actors having the time of their careers playing wittily written opposites who are also spiritual soulmates -- Francois Villon, the poetic rebel, born into poverty with a noble soul, and Louis XI, King of France, born into privilege but with a rebel's iconoclasm.
Outside of the enormous gaps in plot and development, he had to see some humor in it somewhere to cast two direct opposites of the comedy spectrum to helm this project.
The sex-talk is dated now, and the picture looks like a relic from the late-'60s, yet it's a funny film about opposites.
I wasn't sure if this was a comedy about two opposites thrown together (because there were very few humorous moments, this film certainly was not the side-splitter that reviews boast it to be) or if it was a drama about a man discovering who his father really was.