Therefore, 'to promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nature or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most
contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice', Knox ringingly declared, before elaborating several thousand words of largely circular variation on that pungent theme.
Ronald Davidson, however, provides an answer: "Because of his
contrarious [!] disposition, Chapa's ideas were cited later by Sakya Pandita as the preeminent expression of Tibetan doctrinal innovation, which was the kiss of death for Chapa's proposals." (49) A note to this passage refers to two chapters in Jackson 1987, but they do not contain any statement by Sa skya Pandita that could be interpereted in this way.
This "doubleness" was manifested in instances of "contrariety"--a clash of cultural patterns in staging a play--and of "disfigurement," which Weimann glosses as "sites of parody or resistance to Renaissance rhetoric, form, and proportion." (43) The staging of Epicene by the boys' company at Blackfriars provides a particularly telling example of the "
contrarious" playing impulse, given the likelihood of these child actors referencing their adult counterparts, as well as their own earlier performances, and the tradition of "acting" and "playing" that they inherited.
(28) His The First Anniversary even doubts how the
contrarious "minds of stubborn men can build" anything at all (78).
But as the joking banter continues, the husband's speculations darken like the stream and pool forming the dark epiphanic enclosure against whose power the white, birdlike, eddying wave perseveres in its perpetual
contrarious strife.
1) leadership through ideas to consumers (Agora's
contrarious point of view).
It is as if some
contrarious scholar set out to write a book about the Holocaust devoid of any useful lessons for a later time or another situation.
The unexpectedness of that moment--when death intrudes itself on the anxious concerns of the living--is altogether characteristic of the
contrarious imagined world Hardy created in A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Indeed, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, writing in the mid-thirteenth century when the pressure of population ensured that the peasantry were normally "iholde lowe with diuers and
contrarious chargis and trauailes, and among wrecchidnesse and woo", foretold that any alleviation in their condition would make "here herte toswelleth and waxith stoute and proude".(26) John Gower, a contemporary of Langland, fills a substantial part of his copious verses with nostalgia for a bygone age when, in stark contrast to the aftermath of the Black Death, not only did the higher estates obey God's prescription, but the third estate also knew its place.
Dr McAlindon argues for the wide currency in the Renaissance of a cosmology deriving from Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Empedocles, which is '
contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation': 'while it is true that Shakespeare's tragic universe is structured as a hierarchy of correspondent planes, the most striking manifestation of correspondence between |them~ is the violent conflict and confusion of opposites; this, rather than the disruption of hierarchy, is the outstanding feature of the world as seen in the tragedies.'
Images, puppets, plays 'ben onely singnis, love withoute dedis' and therefore are 'not onely
contrarious to the worschipe of God--that is, bothe in signe and in dede--but also they ben ginnys of the devvel to cacchen men to byleve of Anticrist, as wordis of love withoute verrey dede ben ginnys of the lecchour to cacchen felawchipe to fulfillinge of his leccherie'.
No one is more aware of the
contrarious and oppositional ethos of this world than Richard, and his aim throughout the scene is to make others aware of it.
But the wind, never outsmarted, always wins: the destined lady will live, in the most
contrarious way, by the sullen shore.
