"contrast" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These provide a poignant contrast to the series of moving Pietàs and Crucifixions.
- Past and Future There was, in fact, a poignant contrast between the two most recent public appearances of these former rivals.
- Instead, it focuses on the poignant contrast between experience and memory, and on the shifting sands of truth.
- Well-Fed Bacchanals Although not still lifes, two food paintings in the Met illustrate the poignant contrast between excess and deprivation.
- The vignette's quiet tone made it a poignant contrast to the prevailing din.
- The searchers evoke an almost poignant contrast between the 1970's-era space technology and the 21st-century commercial technology that is a direct descendant.
- It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city.
- The elegant classical 18th-century cloisters make a poignant contrast with the Romanesque church.
- Perhaps a few crisp slices of Irish bacon, to give the meal the poignant contrast of sweetness and salinity.
- Suljagic's honesty about himself and others makes for a poignant contrast when he gives an insight into the emotions of people living in fear and isolation.
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