It is also possible, of course, to go the opposite route and kill things with kindness.

"I tend to go the opposite route."

He will take the opposite route, the rule of law, becoming magistrate to combat crime through justice and not through vengeance.

But creative designers are now going the opposite route.

So the couple took what he called "an opposite route": "We went for thick, opaque walls that functioned as cabinets."

We took the opposite route of calorie restriction to make them look like they lived off the land, in the wild, all sinewy and ripped.

The 4th Ranger Battalion met opposition almost immediately taking an opposite route by the road.

The California painters take the opposite route by radically externalizing the surrealism of experience in the West.

Taking Back Sunday is taking the opposite route, into the harder elements of throwback rock.

"Interesting how we come to the same perception by diametrically opposite routes."