39 examples of obverse in sentences

"We have described some of the beauties of the Yukon basin in the summer season, but this radiant picture has its obverse side.

vice versa, controversy, tergiversation, obverse, transverse, reversion, vortex.

And these unworthy motives and inhuman characteristics again spring obviously out of the mean and materialistic ideals of life which still have sway among usthe ideals of wealth and luxury and displayof which the horrors of war are the sure and certain obverse.

Front N. front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia [Lat.], frontispiece; anteriority^; obverse (of a medal or coin).

But we need not go for examples to the New World, that obverse side of our planet.

This specimen of a pure constitution on the obverse side of the planet says very little for republics in general, but still less for the imitations of it in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru.

The circumstance that in his case this extraordinary power was added allowed him to reveal the whole wickedness of the human will; and the sufferings of his age, as the necessary obverse of the medal, reveal the misery which is inextricably bound up with this bad will.

Upon the obverse of the medals struck for the Duke Cosimo for their wedding, twelve years before, the Signora is represented as a finely-developed woman, with the proud profile of a true daughter of Florence, a high brow, a shapely nose, full cheeks, and a dimpled chin.

ACCADIAN HYMN TO ISTAR OBVERSE 1 Light of heaven, who like the fire dawnest on the world, (art) thou.

" Leoni's medal, on the obverse, shows the old artist's head in profile, with strong lines of drapery rising to the neck and gathering around the shoulders.

88 in the legend on the obverse is due to a misconception concerning Michelangelo's age.

Before leaving this interesting subject, I ought to add that the blind man on the reverse of Leoni's medal is clearly a rough and ready sketch of Michelangelo, not treated like a portrait, but with indications sufficient to connect the figure with the highly wrought profile on the obverse.

" Marlowe's very faults and extravagances, and they are many, are only the obverse of his greatness.

The device on the obverse was two hands clasped in one of the grips of the Endowment; on the reverse, a figure from the Book of Mormon, with the motto, "Holiness to the Lord."

To the kindness of my old friend Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity College, Oxford, I also owe a large Bronze Medal, with a medallion portrait of Stukeley on the obverse, and a view of Stonehenge on the reverse.

A Bactrian coin: legend on the obverse, [Transliterated from the Greek lettering, Basileus ermaion sot].

On the obverse is a woman holding a flower or a priest offering incense.

A square silver coin of Apollodotus, 195 B.C. Obverse, an elephant, with the Bactrian monogram beneath[Transliterated from the Greek, Basileus pollodoton soteros].

" The paper had to be held to the light and read from the obverse side, as the message was written from right to left.

Exposition by Obverse Statements.+In explaining an idea it is necessary to distinguish it from any related or similar idea with which it may be confused in the minds of our readers.

By making obverse statements.

Exposition: Chapter X (see also expository themes); purpose of importance of clear understanding necessary of terms of propositions by repetition by examples by comparison and contrast by obverse statements by details by cause and effect by general description by general narration by use of specific instances.

Obverse statements.

I forgot to ask him whether it's stopped Alford's illusions!" III A MEMORY THAT WORKED OVERTIME Minver's brother took down from the top of the low bookshelf a small painting on panel, which he first studied in the obverse, and then turned and contemplated on the back with the same dreamy smile.

This is a world that allows nothing without its obverse and reverse.

39 examples of  obverse  in sentences