He liked to express his figurative conceits pointedly and antithetically; and point and antithesis are the two things most incompatible with clauses jointed ad infinitum in Clarendon's manner, with labyrinths of "whos" and "whiches" such as too frequently content Milton and Taylor.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
I'm ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people-the things-that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically.
"A Fool There Was"
Porter Emerson Browne
The long though honourable captivity in England of King James I of Scotland-the best poet among kings and the best king among poets, as he has been antithetically called-was consoled by the study of the "hymns" of his "dear masters, Chaucer and Gower," for the happiness of whose souls he prays at the close of his poem, "The King's Quair."
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward