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Meanings of counterpoint in английском
Relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (exhibiting polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
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Usage of counterpoint in английском
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Yet at time its leaner-sounding production provides a counterpoint to its explicitness.
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This is ordinary enough; it might be a bit of eighteenth-century counterpoint:
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In the words of McAlpine, Scotland could become a powerful centre-left counterpoint.
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A welcome counterpoint to the inertia that's seized the country of late.
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It was a counterpoint to Too Sweet's cynical view of human motherhood.
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Garity is cast as a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom.
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That said, Bateman's fresh-faced sweetness is a charming counterpoint to the boldness.
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Wimbledon forever succeeds in providing the counterpoint and highlighting the attrition rate.
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Idas played a counterpoint of sounds and images on the Mouse's syrynx.
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Fresh garlic mayonnaise made with chopped green olives adds a rich counterpoint.
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It was an interesting counterpoint to his flying expertise, and suggested humility.
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Marjorie's rushed sentences wove between theirs in a kind of birdlike counterpoint.
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Exquisite counterpoint came from Alban's warmth where her hips pressed into his.
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He picked up the tempo and played a counterpoint to Nyssa's tune.
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To you, your counterpoint, your fugue, the infallible, unquestionable sequence of one-two-three.
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I think it gives you a nice counterpoint for wherever you're standing.
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Translations for counterpoint
русский
испанский
Counterpoint through the time
Counterpoint across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common