All 10 Uses
contrast
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The Call of the Canyon
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- To Carley these groves, by reason of contrast and proof of what once was, only rendered the landscape more forlorn and dreary.
Chpt 1 *contrast = notable difference
- From the head of the stairway, however, the big living room presented a cheerful contrast.†
Chpt 2
- But out above the treetops shone great stars, wonderfully white and radiant and cold, with a piercing contrast to the deep clear blue of sky.†
Chpt 2
- How deep and soft the red color in contrast with the green!†
Chpt 3 *
- the narrow gorges, perpendicularly walled in red, where the constricted brook plunged in amber and white cascades over fall after fall, tumbling, rushing, singing its water melody—these all held singular appeal for Carley as aspects of the wild land, fascinating for the moment, symbolic of the lonely red man and his forbears, and by their raw contrast making more necessary and desirable and elevating the comforts and conventions of civilization.†
Chpt 3
- How could one feel immense gratitude and relief, or the delight of satisfying acute hunger, or the sweet comfort of rest, unless there had been circumstances of extreme contrast?†
Chpt 5
- And never had she shown to greater contrast, never had circumstance and state of mind contrived to make her so radiant and gay and unbending.†
Chpt 6
- Maples and sycamores and oaks were in full foliage, and their bright greens contrasted softly with the dark shine of the pines.†
Chpt 6
- Their merry voices contrasted discordantly with their sad appearance.†
Chpt 9
- Deep dark-blue shadows, like purple sails of immense ships, in wonderful contrast with the bright sunlit slopes, grew and rose toward the east, down the canyons and up the walls that faced the west.†
Chpt 11
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
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(3)
(contrast as in: sharpen the picture contrast) the difference between tones of an image -- as in a photo or video -- such as the quality of brightness or the intensity of shades or colors
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)