All 21 Uses of

contrast

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John Adams by McCullough

In contrast to his loving, tender Hannah, these Smith sisters were, he wrote, neither "fond, nor frank, nor candid."†
Subsection 1.1.2 (definition 1)

In contrast to the resolution, Adams's preamble put aside any possibility of reconciliation and all but declared the colonies immediately independent: Whereas his Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the lords and commons of Great Britain, has, by a late act of Parliament, excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of his crown; and whereas, no answer whatever to the humble petitions ofthe colonies for redress of grievances and reconciliation with Great…†
Subsection 1.2.2 (definition 1)

The differences in physique, background, manner, and temperament could hardly have been more contrasting.†
Subsection 1.2.3 (definition 1)

In contrast to Adams's need to fill pages of his diaries with his innermost thoughts and feelings, Jefferson kept neat account books.†
Subsection 1.2.3 (definition 1)

John Adams, by contrast, had neither debts nor slaves and all his life abhorred the idea of either.†
Subsection 1.2.3 (definition 1) *

By contrast, the American army gathered in defense of New York, digging in on Manhattan and Long Island, was optimistically thought to number 20,000 troops, these nearly all poorly equipped amateurs led by Washington, who in his year as commander-in-chief had yet to fight a battle.†
Subsection 1.3.2 (definition 1)

By contrast, there was no European court to which an express could not be sent from Paris in ten or fifteen days, and an answer could be expected within approximately the same time.†
Subsection 2.4.3 (definition 1)

Arthur Lee, by contrast, was seldom anything but a handicap.†
Subsection 2.4.3 (definition 1)

Franklin by contrast rarely wrote a word to Congress.†
Subsection 2.5.1 (definition 1)

In contrast to most Frenchwomen, and very like Abigail, she remained openly devoted to her husband and children.†
Subsection 2.6.2 (definition 1)

And the pleasure of working with Jefferson stood in such vivid contrast to the ill will and dark suspicions Adams had had to contend with when dealing with Arthur Lee.†
Subsection 2.6.3 (definition 1)

In marked contrast to both Franklin and Jefferson, Adams remained the picture of health.
Subsection 2.6.4 (definition 2) *

contrast = difference

The contrast between the character of Smith and Tyler was clear enough, she stressed to John Quincy, in an effort to explain his sister's decision.†
Subsection 2.7.3 (definition 2)

At the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, by contrast, the "buzz" of business being transacted reminded her of nothing so much as "the swarming of bees."†
Subsection 2.7.3 (definition 1)

Had he been in New York two years earlier, almost certainly he would have seen a play called The Contrast, if for no other reason than it was written by Nabby's former suitor, Royall Tyler.†
Subsection 3.8.2 (definition 1)

January 1798 in Congress Hall in Philadelphia, by contrast, was marked by a battle royal on the floor of the House.†
Subsection 3.9.3 (definition 1)

The view that Adams was unsuited to prepare the nation for war and that Hamilton, by contrast, was the ideal choice for second-in-command was shared by McHenry and Secretary Pickering alike.†
Subsection 3.9.4 (definition 1)

Even the Aurora commented on his "good health and spirits," while Adams, by contrast, looked drawn and weary and was seldom cheerful.†
Subsection 3.10.1 (definition 1)

By contrast to Hamilton, Webster wrote, Adams was "a man of pure morals, of firm attachment to republican government, of sound and inflexible patriotism."†
Subsection 3.10.5 (definition 1)

To the victorious Republicans, and to generations of historians, the thought of the tall Jefferson, with his air of youth at fifty-seven, assuming the presidency in the new Capitol at the start of a new century, his eye on the future, would stand in vivid contrast to a downcast, bitter John Adams, old and "toothless" at sixty-five, on his "morning flight" to Baltimore.†
Subsection 3.10.6 (definition 1)

Jefferson, by sad contrast, had died with debts exceeding $100,000, more than the value of Monticello, its land, and all his possessions, including his slaves.†
Subsection 3.12.5 (definition 1)

Definitions:

(1) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles)
point to differences between; or compare to show differences

(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