All 28 Uses of
on the other hand
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- When an English professor reads, on the other hand, he will accept the affective response level of the story (we don't mind a good cry when Little Nell dies), but a lot of his attention will be engaged by other elements of the novel.†
Chpt Intr.
- Wily veterans, on the other hand, will absorb those details, or possibly overlook them, to find the patterns, the routines, the archetypes at work in the background.†
Chpt Intr. *
- On the other hand, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late fourteenth century) and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen (1596), two of the great quest narratives from early English literature, also have what modern readers must consider cartoonish elements.†
Chpt 1
- On the other hand, here is a substance they take into their bodies in a shared, almost ritualistic experience.†
Chpt 2
- On the other hand, in "Daisy Miller," he employs the figure of the vampire as an emblem of the way society—polite, ostensibly normal society—battens on and consumes its victims.†
Chpt 3
- The sonnet, on the other hand, is blessedly common, has been written in every era since the English Renaissance, and remains very popular with poets and readers today.†
Chpt 4
- A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, tends to divide up by four: the first four lines (or quatrain), the next four, the third four, and the last four, which turn out to be only two (a couplet).†
Chpt 4
- On the other hand, there's something about it that, to us, makes sense.†
Chpt 7
- On the other hand, there's the highbrow issue—he may turn off some readers who feel you're trying too hard.†
Chpt 8
- Auden's poem, on the other hand, is a meditation on the private nature of suffering and the way in which the larger world takes no interest in our private disasters.†
Chpt 9
- On the other hand, if he falls down, he'll be covered in mud and therefore more stained than before.†
Chpt 10
- On the other hand, rain is also restorative.†
Chpt 10
- On the other hand, water generally is a mixed medium in his text, the river Thames being polluted and a scene of corruption, complete with a slimy-bellied rat on the bank.†
Chpt 10
- On the other hand, "literary" fiction and drama and poetry are chiefly about those other layers.†
Chpt 11
- Rushdie's two characters, on the other hand, experience their descent as a fall not from innocence to experience but from an already corrupt life into an existence as demons.†
Chpt 11
- On the other hand, maybe she doesn't have an encounter with Something at all.†
Chpt 12
- You can't simply say, Well, it's a river, so it means x, or apple picking, so it means y. On the other hand, you can say this could sometimes mean x or y or even z, so let's keep that in mind to see which one, if either, happens here.†
Chpt 12
- On the other hand, not all crashes end disastrously.†
Chpt 15
- On the other hand, almost nothing happens in Lawrence that doesn't seem to me to be deeply spiritual, even if it's in fairly mystifying ways.†
Chpt 18
- And Beloved herself is perfect, except for three scratches on her forehead; on the other hand, Beloved is something else again, not merely human.†
Chpt 21
- Tuberculosis, on the other hand, was a wasting disease, both in terms of the individual wasting away, growing thinner and thinner, and in terms of the waste of lives that were often barely under way.†
Chpt 24
- Now AIDS, on the other hand, has been an epidemic that does occupy the writers of its time.†
Chpt 24
- On the other hand, a too rigid insistence on the fictive world corresponding on all points to the world we know can be terribly limiting not only to our enjoyment but to our understanding of literary works.†
Chpt 25
- On the other hand, Baldwin is only slightly interested in Sonny's addiction in and of itself what he really cares about is the brother's emotional turmoil.†
Chpt 25
- The message, on the other hand, the thing being signified (and we'll call that the signified), that's up for grabs.†
Chpt 26
- A Clockwork Orange, on the other hand, provides a negative model.†
Chpt 26
- What I want to do, on the other hand, is consider the noumenal level of the story, its spiritual or essential level of being.†
Chpt 27
- On the other hand, I figure my little enterprise can get along without me pretty well, so I'll spare it the send-off.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
from another point of view; or in a way that is different (a phrase used to introduce a different perspective or idea)