When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
People who lack self-regulation are often invasive of others. They can be perceived as being controlling, antagonistic, or even subversive.
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
. . . and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
true emancipation. . . will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
I think one should be antagonistic to one's underlings. It keeps them on their toes. ~Soi Fon
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty. . . as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.
Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
