diametrical

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And though the two movies look like diametrical opposites, they share a pair of undeniable throughlines: the aching, all-consuming feeling of desire and the remarkable actors chosen to depict it.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

The diametrical pair overtook Holmes in the primary.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022

“Their true goal, plutocracy, is the diametrical opposite of freedom,” Smith writes.

From Slate • May 7, 2020

The diametrical opposite, Julia Wolfe’s “Early That Summer,” built up tension through a driving stream of notes, although the expected climaxes never materialized.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2017

Who can say to what diametrical contradiction to his firmest convictions man may not in the future be driven by his adaptation to new relations in life?

From Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel by Huxley, Thomas Henry