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Example sentences for "antipathies"

Lexicographically close words:
antinomianism; antinomies; antinomy; antipapal; antipathetic; antipathy; antiperiodic; antiphlogistic; antiphon; antiphonal
  1. We have more than one picture of the Athenian empire, in speeches made by hostile orators who had every motive to work up the strongest antipathies in the bosoms of their audience against it.

  2. It was likely to raise strong antipathies in the bosom of an old fashioned Spartan, and probably king Archidamus, had he been alive, would have taken part with the opposing ephors.

  3. It is certain that the females occasionally exhibit, from unknown causes, the strongest antipathies and preferences for particular males.

  4. From these facts there can be no doubt that with most of our domesticated quadrupeds strong individual antipathies and preferences are frequently exhibited, and much more commonly by the female than by the male.

  5. This suspicion will appear somewhat less improbable after we have seen what strong antipathies and preferences female birds occasionally evince towards particular males.

  6. It is important to observe that, at this early period, he showed many curious and morbid musical antipathies which he entirely outgrew.

  7. To the fierce antipathies of the mortified Kritias, the idea of failure was intolerable; indeed, he had now carried his hostility to such a point, that the acquittal of his enemy would have been his own ruin.

  8. King's College was started in opposition; and violent antipathies were aroused.

  9. Religion injures society by creating antipathies against unbelievers, and in a less degree against heretics and nonconformists.

  10. He had the ill luck to be the centre upon which the antipathies of Jacobin and anti-Jacobin converged.

  11. Had the authors given their names, they would no doubt have excited antipathies injurious to the propaganda of Utilitarianism.

  12. The temper is depraved not only by the antipathies generated, but by the 'fitful and intermittent character' of the inducements to conduct.

  13. The impressions which come to us through the sense of hearing cause sensations agreeable or disagreeable, but even in this sense we see marked examples of idiosyncrasies and antipathies to various sounds and tones.

  14. There are certain so-called antipathies that in reality are idiosyncrasies, and which are due to peculiarities of the ideal and emotional centers.

  15. In the undisguised antipathies and aversions which people feel towards strangers with whom they have to do we may recognize the expression of self-love--of narcissism.

  16. Such a one is to be found in Trotter's thoughtful book upon the herd instinct, concerning which my only regret is that it does not entirely escape the antipathies that were set loose by the recent great war.

  17. The antipathies between these general groups and between certain of their subdivisions will be found to be essentially fundamental, but they will also be found to present almost endless differences of degrees of actual and potential acuteness.

  18. Racial antipathies represent the collision of invisible forces, the clash of interests, dimly felt but not yet clearly perceived.

  19. Behind these antipathies are deep-seated, vital, and instinctive impulses.

  20. In just so far as these differences are fixed and permanently associated characteristics of two groups of people will the antipathies and problems between the two be permanent.

  21. These are the associations in which the most lasting affections and the most violent antipathies are formed.

  22. And the antipathies of North and South, though they might bow to the principle of a common republic, would never allow the Neapolitan to take a king from Piedmont.

  23. Nor were his antipathies limited to the Emperor.

  24. Among the Spaniards and Portuguese racial antipathies were not so strong, and their slaves were consequently better treated.

  25. The influence of sentimental antipathies and likings has been decreasing, ibid.

  26. Antipathies of this kind have directly influenced the moral valuation of conduct towards foreigners; but at the same time they have also strengthened the feelings of mutual goodwill between tribesmen or compatriots.

  27. Finally, there are cases of disinterested retributive emotions into which sympathy does not enter at all--sentimental antipathies and likings quite disinterested in character.

  28. She adds wings and feelings to the images of wit; and delights as much to people nature with smiling ideal sympathies, as wit does to bring antipathies together, and make them strike light on absurdity.

  29. In short, he was profound and discriminating with respect to those authors whom he liked, and where he gave his judgement fair play; capricious, perverse, and prejudiced in his antipathies and distastes.

  30. He had no personal antipathies or jealousies.

  31. There was also a prejudice in many minds against a standing army, besides the jealousies and antipathies which existed between different sections of the Union.

  32. The man who would try to raise himself above the position of the mere pander to passing antipathies must widen his intellectual horizon.

  33. At any rate, they had, as a matter of fact, produced widespread discontent and bitter antipathies between classes.

  34. It was the existence of these antipathies to which the outbreak was due.

  35. I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others.

  36. He also throws some curious light, unknown to modern zoologists, on the antipathies of animals one to another.

  37. The fact is, most of our enthusiasms and antipathies are the bastard offspring of a pure æsthetic sense and a permanent disposition or a transitory mood.

  38. However irrational it may be, there are instinctive antipathies and distrusts between the different racial stocks.

  39. Other barriers, between upper and lower classes, are thickening, new antagonisms and antipathies that threaten yet much friction and unhappiness and a retardation of moral progress.

  40. It is earnestly to be hoped that Chinese, Japanese, Hindus, and other non-European races may not be admitted to residence here in any great degree; similar antipathies and resentments would be added to our existing discords.

  41. The instinctive racial antipathies of the Balkan peoples have been immeasurably deepened by the recent wars on the peninsula.

  42. With respect to the French refugees, the national antipathies among the colonists now began to abate, who, from their quiet and inoffensive behaviour, entertained daily more favourable sentiments of them.

  43. Israel’s fate has been to work out their calling in the world through antipathies rather than by sympathies, but of all the antipathies which the nation experienced none was more bitter and more constant than that towards Edom.

  44. Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated.

  45. These three antipathies were connected with water.

  46. Marechal d'Albret at the sight of a wild hog; these antipathies were produced by animal emanations, and often took effect at a great distance.

  47. But the antipathies that arise from the inversion of affinities have, very happily, been recorded when developed by famous men.

  48. Between us there is a great gulf, not of inexplicable moral antipathies and distances, I hope, as there seemed to be between me and that gentleman concerned in the stamp-office that I so strangely recoiled from at Haydon's.

  49. For many things secret are true; sympathies and antipathies are safely authentick unto us, who ignorant of their causes may yet acknowledge their effects.

  50. The last consideration concerneth Magical relations; in which account we comprehend effects derived and fathered upon hidden qualities, specifical forms, Antipathies and Sympathies, whereof from received grounds of Art, no reasons are derived.

  51. In that triumphant hour the last remaining traces of past antipathies and past disagreements were altogether swept away.

  52. She said that her prejudices and antipathies were deep and strong, and her disposition very inflexible.


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