contrariness

The ground itself kicked this contrariness off, the opening punches met with a stunned, polite silence where we had been promised fervour that required riot police.

It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness.

And, freedom, exploration, and a little bemused contrariness.

If we see neighbors doing things in a certain way, we might reject that behavior and do things differently out of sheer contrariness.

And I don’t know, I find myself believing in Berry’s contrariness.