All 9 Uses of
contrast
in
The War of the Worlds
- Close on its apparition, and blindingly violet by contrast, danced out the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead.
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1) *by contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
- The passage was dark, and, by contrast with the picture the window frame enclosed, the side of the room seemed impenetrably dark.
Chpt 1.11 (definition 1)
- Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.
Chpt 1.12 (definition 2) *contrast = difference
- The faces of these people were haggard, and their entire appearance contrasted conspicuously with the Sabbath-best appearance of the people on the omnibuses.
Chpt 1.14 (definition 2)contrasted = differed
- Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
Chpt 2.1 (definition 2)contrasting = differing
- The contrast between the swift and complex movements of these contrivances and the inert panting clumsiness of their masters was acute, and for days I had to tell myself repeatedly that these latter were indeed the living of the two things.
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2)contrast = difference
- The day seemed, by contrast with my recent confinement, dazzlingly bright, the sky a glowing blue.
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)by contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
- I believed unhesitatingly both in his forecast of human destiny and in the practicability of his astonishing scheme, and the reader who thinks me susceptible and foolish must contrast his position, reading steadily with all his thoughts about his subject, and mine, crouching fearfully in the bushes and listening, distracted by apprehension.
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)contrast = compare to show differences
- At the corner of the bridge, too, I saw one of the common contrasts of that grotesque time—a sheet of paper flaunting against a thicket of the red weed, transfixed by a stick that kept it in place.
Chpt 2.9 (definition 2)contrasts = a side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable difference
Definitions:
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(1) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences
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(2) (contrast as in: there is a contrast) a difference -- especially a notable difference; or the side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable difference