Stephen Hough

One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to communicate in words or have diametrically opposed views on hot-button issues, while the music sounds we can be at peace, we can be friends. The vibrations that fill an auditorium have no passports, and they unite ears when hearts may be divided.

British Composer

Beau Willimon

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

American Playwright

John C. Bogle

While the interests of the business are served by the aphorism 'Don't just stand there. Do something!' the interests of investors are served by an approach that is its diametrical opposite: 'Don't do something. Just stand there!

American Businessman

Nikita Khrushchev

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

Russian Statesman

Essie Davis

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

Australian Actress

K. Flay

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

American Musician

Tom Hiddleston

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

English Actor

Jennifer Egan

I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being.

American Novelist

Steve Carell

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

American Actor

Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

American Cartoonist

Use 'diametrical' to stress a complete or exact opposition between two things.

Total Opposition

'Diametrical' implies more than just different opinions; it suggests polar opposites.

Beyond Differences

Don't confuse it with literal distance. 'Diametrical' refers to figurative or abstract contrasts.

Not Physical Distance

'Diametrical' in math specifically relates to a diameter, a straight line within a circle.

Geometric Term

In mathematics, use 'diametrical' when discussing measurements and proportions involving diameters.

Precise Context

When used technically, 'diametrical' refers to exactness in circular measurement, not approximation.

Measurement Specificity

 for the patent system. The health care industry would like stronger protections for inventors. The hi-tech industry would like stronger protections for producers. And these goals aren't necessarily diametrically opposed, but they are at odds.

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 a lot of folks on edge very often you get diametrically opposed views everyone feels as though they're right and I argue that you can't have a healthy economic and social base in the basin without a healthy environment and we see

Dancing the Spirit Back...

 clean water it's technology diametrically opposed to nature because technology is an extension of life it's parallel and aligned with the same things that life wants so that I think technology loves biology if we allow it