And what a refreshing contrast they are to our media-blitzed, frantic world.

There is a clarity to its floor plan that is in refreshing contrast to the confused organization of so many hotels.

Grapefruit salad with shrimp ($7) is a soothing, refreshing contrast.

A refreshing contrast to the more reserved British approach.

I was starting to appreciate how, for Morag, fluming might present a refreshing contrast with her day job.

In 1986, this was a refreshing contrast with traditional Soviet stonewalling.

To some officials, Blackmun struck a refreshing contrast to the other candidates.

This a refreshing contrast to the Bush administration's addiction to war as the answer to the world's ills.

They were quite a refreshing contrast to the usual explanations of 'who's who.'

Yet they stand in strikingly refreshing contrast with the vague generalisms and sharp personalities of the day.