All 7 Uses of
contrast
in
Selected Essays
- In contrast with their writing, the style of Pope,[88] of Johnson,[89] of Gibbon,[90] looks cold and pedantic.†
Chpt 1. (definition 1) *
- What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander,[260] whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under!†
Chpt 3. (definition 2) *
- Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.†
Chpt 6. (definition 1)
- These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house.†
Chpt 7. (definition 1)
- This guiding identity runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece, and characterizes every law.†
Chpt 8. (definition 1)
- Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man, in wide contrast.†
Chpt 9. (definition 1)
- Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.†
Chpt 11. (definition 1)
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