antithesis

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Among the artworks returned is a piece titled I Love Antithesis, valued at $2.75m, and Standing Woman that was previously on display at the MoMA, valued at $1.5m.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023

Antithesis reaches its climax in the metaphor of the eighth line: "I was love's cradle once, now love's grave right."

From The Guardian • May 20, 2013

Antithesis of the late hated Chain Publisher Frank Munsey, Frank Gannett gives his editors a free hand, signs his name to anything he asks them to publish in conflict with the papers' policies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Antithesis is his favourite: “They for kindness hate;” and, “because she’s right, she’s ever in the wrong.”

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Antithesis, an-tith′e-sis, n. a figure in which thoughts or words are set in contrast: a counter-thesis, counter-proposition: opposition: the contrast:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various