Relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (exhibiting polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
To show differences when compared; be different.
Синонимы
Examples for "contrast "
Examples for "contrast "
1 But, in contrast , Sydney's north will actually have good air quality today.
2 By contrast , renewable energy is dominating new investment in power generation worldwide.
3 In contrast , she said, American Protestantism offers greater room for spiritual debate.
4 Good contrast was found to be most important at longer working distances.
5 Patients taking Remicade, by contrast , need at least six infusions a year.
1 Yet at time its leaner-sounding production provides a counterpoint to its explicitness.
2 This is ordinary enough; it might be a bit of eighteenth-century counterpoint :
3 In the words of McAlpine, Scotland could become a powerful centre-left counterpoint .
4 A welcome counterpoint to the inertia that's seized the country of late.
5 It was a counterpoint to Too Sweet's cynical view of human motherhood.
6 Garity is cast as a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom.
7 That said, Bateman's fresh-faced sweetness is a charming counterpoint to the boldness.
8 Wimbledon forever succeeds in providing the counterpoint and highlighting the attrition rate.
9 Idas played a counterpoint of sounds and images on the Mouse's syrynx.
10 Fresh garlic mayonnaise made with chopped green olives adds a rich counterpoint .
11 It was an interesting counterpoint to his flying expertise, and suggested humility.
12 Marjorie's rushed sentences wove between theirs in a kind of birdlike counterpoint .
13 Exquisite counterpoint came from Alban's warmth where her hips pressed into his.
14 He picked up the tempo and played a counterpoint to Nyssa's tune.
15 To you, your counterpoint , your fugue, the infallible, unquestionable sequence of one-two-three.
16 I think it gives you a nice counterpoint for wherever you're standing.
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Translations for counterpoint
Counterpoint в диалектах
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