| Indeed the contrariety of individuals often means precisely that we can only get at the institutions which individuals pass through. |
| Taking his cue again from Blake rather than Hegel, Prynne argues that contrariety is not the same thing as opposition. |
| This is connected to his distaste for any hint of social determinism, and his eulogising of the essay format as the most suitable means of conveying human contrariety. |
| Submission to the fundamental contrariety of human nature amounts to an acceptance of the fact that the psyche is at cross purposes with itself. |
| The case is the same with contrariety, and with the degrees of any quality. |
| The child puzzled him by her contrariety, yet she was not a troublesome child. |