All 5 Uses of
contrast
in
The Age of Innocence
- Mrs. Lovell Mingott had the high colour and glassy stare induced in ladies of her age and habit by the effort of getting into a new dress; but once the disappointment occasioned by her mother-in-law's non-appearance had subsided, it was agreed that her black Chantilly over lilac satin, with a bonnet of Parma violets, formed the happiest contrast to Mrs. Welland's blue and plum-colour.†
Chpt 19
- A contrast indeed to this gay scene of worldly pleasure—but then I have always lived on contrasts!†
Chpt 21 *
- A contrast indeed to this gay scene of worldly pleasure—but then I have always lived on contrasts!†
Chpt 21
- "Or if not," she continued, pursuing her own thought with a painful application, "if it's not worth while to have given up, to have missed things, so that others may be saved from disillusionment and misery—then everything I came home for, everything that made my other life seem by contrast so bare and so poor because no one there took account of them—all these things are a sham or a dream—"†
Chpt 24
- She had put on the low-necked and tightly-laced dinner-dress which the Mingott ceremonial exacted on the most informal occasions, and had built her fair hair into its usual accumulated coils; and her face, in contrast, was wan and almost faded.†
Chpt 30 *
Definitions:
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(contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences
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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