Both Uses of
contrast
in
Light in August
- It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding her as she struggled and shrieked, her hair wild with the jerking and tossing of her head; her face, even her mouth, in contrast to the hair as still as a dead mouth in a dead face.†
Chpt 9 *
- She was sitting quite still on the bed, her hands on her lap, her still New England face (it was still the face of a spinster: prominently boned, long, a little thin, almost manlike: in contrast to it her plump body was more richly and softly animal than ever) lowered.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences