Waverly shrank cowering, the direct antithesis of his bolder self, quailing as The Shadow's hand descended to pluck him by the collar and bring him up again.

"In some ways I think of 'Old Joy' as the direct antithesis of a Peckinpah-Tarantino axis of masculinity," Mr. Raymond said.

Formal parallelism occurs where the hemistichs balance, clause for clause, but contain neither synonymy nor direct antithesis.

It is, one might add, in direct antithesis to his recent, muted production of "Measure for Measure" at Lincoln Center.

It is a direct antithesis to the Knight's with none of the nobility or heritage of classical mythology, but is instead rollicking, bawdy, comedic and designed to annoy the Knight.

Cuthbert Davenport liked Tom Rodan because the young man was the direct antithesis of Perry.

Everything was discussed in euphemisms and half-allusions (sometimes even in substitutes for substitutes), or else in a way that was in direct antithesis to the truth.

But, with its starkness, his Lincoln Center production is in direct antithesis to the visual richness of his previous work at Hartford Stage.

The real Gordon was almost the direct antithesis of the role he had assumed.

Mr. Sarandon concurred that "Rick was the direct antithesis of Walter, and I think to good purpose."