They also felt that the seriousness of the novel's themes made a jarring contrast with the flippancy of the detective characters.

What she beheld provided a jarring contrast to the mundane appearance of the rest of the office.

Arriving in Baghdad on the last day of August, I was struck once again by the jarring contrast between desert light and dictatorial gloom.

A more jarring contrast of styles than the one between Poulter and Westwood would be difficult to imagine.

Outside the museum a World War II airplane on permanent exhibition strikes a jarring contrast.

Clean-shaven and very pale, he had eyes the color of bitter chocolate, a jarring contrast with his red hair.

It is a jarring contrast, but like so many in "1900" not an especially trenchant one.

The wire gives the pieces their form, yet its brightly colored bristles are a jarring contrast to the gentle curves of the soft natural fiber.

Bright, austere, and streamlined, it provided a jarring contrast to the subterranean depths of the cavern.

Students also have to wrestle with the jarring contrast between the cosseted lives they lead and the struggle for survival they witness among the poor.