Sentences with Contrary, Contrary in a Sentence in English, Sentences For Contrary
1. Heart and head are contrary historians.
2. They left their task unfinished contrary to what had been arranged.
3. Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
4. Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
5. Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.
6. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
7. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes.
8. The patient’s autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary – the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
9. People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money.
10. I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
11. If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
12. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
13. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
