All 5 Uses of
contrast
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- Yet when he got, along with her mild responses, one of those glances, he was himself strangely subdued by it, and fain to prop his leaning prejudices by contrasting her scant print gown, her slat sunbonnet, and cowhide shoes with the apparel of the humblest in the village which they were approaching.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- The contrast struck cold to the girl's heart.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Johnnie greeted the new boarder with a reserve which was in marked contrast to the reception he got from the other girls.
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *contrast = difference
- One evening about the holidays, miserably wet, and offering its squalid contrast to the season, Johnnie, plodding along between the two little girls, with Pony and Milo following, met Gray Stoddard face to face.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- She looked hopefully for a renewal of that earlier companionship which seemed by contrast almost intimate.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (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
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(2) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences