"violent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As a matter of fact, the more the sexes are in violent contrast the less likely they are to be in violent collision.
- In violent and extraordinary contrast with this scene of destruction, close at hand were the huge newspaper establishments of Park Row.
- That is a pretty, pretty, pretty violent contrast.
- Unfortunately, the rhetorical language was in violent contrast with the simple nature of the contents, so that the chief value of this literature is historical.
- In that 2001 article he proposed the following explanation of the "violent contrast" between the British and the American lexical accent (cp.
- Her fur was orange rather than red, but something about that shade - its violent contrast to the lazy green around it - made Rosie shiver again.
- In another violent contrast, a London lodging house was the stage on which the worst crisis of his life was to play itself out.
- The only way you develop more than a casual interest in peace as we conceive of it is through the recurrent and violent contrast of war.
- The circumstances were too grotesque, the contrast too violent, for subdued mirth.
- The work's lighting has been described as "Caravaggesque", after the Italian artist closely associated with tenebrism-the use of violent contrast between light and dark.
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