All 6 Uses of
contrast
in
Ethan Frome
- During the early part of my stay I had been struck by the contrast between the vitality of the climate and the deadness of the community.
Chpt Opencontrast = notable difference
- Once I happened to speak of an engineering job I had been on the previous year in Florida, and of the contrast between the winter landscape about us and that in which I had found myself the year before;
Chpt Open
- Such tastes and acquirements in a man of his condition made the contrast more poignant between his outer situation and his inner needs, and I hoped that the chance of giving expression to the latter might at least unseal his lips.
Chpt Open
- Mattie Silver came from Stamford, and when she entered the Fromes' household to act as her cousin Zeena's aid it was thought best, as she came without pay, not to let her feel too sharp a contrast between the life she had left and the isolation of a Starkfield farm.
Chpt 1contrast = difference
- It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of her own ease and freedom;
Chpt 2contrast = notable difference
- Zeena waited a moment, as if giving him time to feel the full force of the contrast between his own excitement and her composure.
Chpt 7 *contrast = difference
Definition:
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(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