The element of sex, of course, entered in, but only as intensifying the contrasts and mysteries of imagination.
He is dressed in sober grey and drab clothes, and contrasts strongly in his ascetic and suffering aspect with the gay revellers about him.
With an ordinary actress in that character the comedy might be tedious--notwithstanding its bold and fine contrasts of character, its fertility of piquant incident, and its lovely poetry.
Forget Me Not tells a thin story, but its story has been made to yield excellent dramatic pictures, splendid moments of intellectual combat, and affecting contrasts of character.
That which gave Lord Nelville, as will be seen in the sequel, so great an ascendancy over the heart of his mistress, was the unexpectedcontrasts which gave a peculiar charm to his manners.
Susceptible at once of transport and remorse, of passion and timidity, those contrastsdid not permit him to know himself till the event had decided the combat that was taking place within him.
It is a commonplace of psychology that in shocks and contrasts of this kind the liveliest workings of the imagination and the emotions are to be expected.
One can imagine that he was dictating quick and eagerly as he began the sentence; he "crowds and hurries and precipitates" the grand contrasts of which his mind is full.
Though Plato here proclaims his conclusion with an unqualified confidence which contrasts greatly with the modest reserve often expressed in his Timaeus--yet the conclusion is rather disproved than proved by his own premisses.
The illustrations are especially good, avoiding the excessively black background which produce harsh contrasts and injure the outlines of so many half-tone prints.
In this character of constant flux and development it contrasts strongly with the classic styles, in which the scheme and the principles were easily fixed and remained substantially unchanged for centuries.
The next section of the sermon deals with the superiority of the gospel of Christ over the law of Moses, and contrasts the requirements of the two in particular instances.
Such contrasts cannot but awake in the child's mind deeply-rooted prejudices, far from favorable to the German race.
Probably no seaside watering-place known to the polite world contrasts so strongly with the typical American watering-place as does this Welsh resort.
This separation of thecontrasts I praise even more than all.
Sphex contrasts with the more elevated buffoonery of Schoppe; and if we have Bouverot, we have also Dion, that Greek so elegant and so noble, happy mixture of the antique and the modern, that artist so sensible and so true.
The moral contrastswhich were afforded by the Mexicans and Peruvians reappear in the case of the Aegyptians and the Semitidae.
The Kaffre area is so large that it extends on both sides of Africa to the equator; and the contrast which it supplies when compared with the small one of the Hottentots is a repetition of the contrasts already noticed in America.
He smiled to himself as he lazily made contrasts of them.
Before the turf fire there was a square of rag carpet, and the bits of blue and scarlet in it were pretty contrasts to the white wood of the chairs and table.
From this Mr. Britling broke away into a fresh addition to his already large collection of contrasts between England and Germany.
In waiting Calais one might witness about all the emotions and contrasts of war --and many which one does not find at the front.
They knew all the sensations of physical man, man battling with nature, in contrasts of exhaustion and danger and recuperation and security, as the pendulum swung slowly back from fatigue to the glow of strength.
I recall one scene of the utmost simplicity, the restrained and sober emotion of which contrasts curiously with the fine phrases a situation such as it contains would inspire in an author of a quarter of a century ago.
Most notable of all the contrasts in color is unquestionably the rich purple of the bougainvillea blooms splashed in great masses against the immaculate walls and porticoes of the more pretentious houses.
Individuals who have lost one or more senses become extraordinarily adept in detectingcontrasts with their other senses.
Sidenote: Contrast Selfish and Service Purposes] You should suggest contrasts between yourself and ordinary job seekers or employees.
There they found Appius Claudius, the augur, whom Axius began to rally on the magnificence of his villa, at the extremity of the Campus Martius, which hecontrasts with the profitable plainness of his own farm in the Reatine district.
It is not a person complaining or imploring, but merely relating what had occurred;" and he contrasts this tameness with the energy and ardour with which Cicero has painted the commission of a like enormity by Verres(234).
He contrasts a life of listless indolence with one of honourable activity; and, finally, descants on the task of the historian as a suitable exercise for the highest faculties of the mind.
This seems the chief cause of the difference in their eloquence; but the contrasts are too obvious, and have been too often exhibited to be here displayed.
It treats of the pericardium and of the pericardial fluid and perhaps of the musculi papillares, and contrasts the thickness of the walls of right and left ventricles.
It must be confessed that these contrasts make a curious and interesting tout ensemble.
They combined to form a marvellous picture--those contrastsof splendour and squalor amongst the sons of the sand.
Sidenote: Al Kindy contrasts the Christian confessor with the Moslem "martyr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contrasts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
