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Example sentences for "strong contrast"

  • The English officers stood grouped together, affording a strong contrast to their French captors.

  • The Andantino which follows offers a strong contrast to both movements of the concertante.

  • Electra's middle song (14) is in strong contrast to the passionate outbursts of the other two; here her happy love seems to fill her very being.

  • The Abyssinian blood showed in strong contrast to the negro type around him, and he was far superior in intelligence to any of the Central Africans.

  • The station was in complete order: the cultivation was thriving, and the general appearance of the government settlement was a strong contrast to the surrounding wilderness of high grass, and the large and dirty town of Masindi.

  • The white uniforms of the soldiers formed a strong contrast to the black figures of the naked Baris; thus we could see the affair distinctly.

  • His indefatigable activity both of mind and body formed a strong contrast to the lethargy of early years.

  • The austerity and self-denial of earlier days formed a strong contrast to the pomp of his present establishment and the profuse luxury of his table.

  • The use of the slanted-cut pen tended towards the compression of the letters, thus forming a strong contrast to the letters produced in the earlier periods with the straight-cut pen.

  • It dries with a dull, velvet-like surface which shows in strong contrast to brightly burnished gold.

  • In the latter part of this century a very large number of Bibles appear to have been written, and volumes were smaller, standing out in strong contrast to the ponderous tomes of the preceding century.

  • In strong contrast to these creatures of court favour were the twelve nominees of the barons.

  • A dependant of the King of France and a subject of the King of England, the new pope showed a complaisance towards kings which stood in strong contrast to the ultramontane austerity of his predecessors.

  • But his strength of will and seriousness of purpose stand in strong contrast to his father's weakness and levity.

  • Some few of the houses are large and comfortable, being of modern construction, forming a strong contrast to the low turf-roofed log-cabins which are to be seen in such close proximity to them.

  • Now and again a few sheep were seen cropping the thin brown moss and straggling verdure, tended by a boy clad in a fur cap and skin capote, forming a strong contrast to his bare legs and feet.

  • The masses of the people are cheerful and talkative in the extreme, exhibiting a strong contrast in this respect to those of Russia, who have a chronic expression of dreariness and inanity, and who, as a rule, are essentially silent and sad.

  • Their habitations form a strong contrast to those of the Turks.

  • The only place where Turkish beggars are seen is the area or vicinity of a mosque, and even here very few obtrude themselves; forming a strong contrast to the multitudes that beset houses of Christian worship.

  • In the glow of her prosperity she formed a strong contrast to the rest of Africa, which remained almost unknown, shrouded in darkness.

  • The eastern coast offers a strong contrast to the northern coast.

  • In strong contrast to the northern sections are those of the eastern part of the State.

  • In strong contrast to this fertile section are the lesser deserts, which lie back of the Atlas Mountains, where they follow the coast line.

  • This he spoke with a tone of conscious importance, which formed a strong contrast to the modest terms which he thought it proper to employ.

  • The downcast and sorrowful looks of these venerable men, their silence and their mournful posture, formed a strong contrast to the levity of the revellers on the outside of the castle.

  • The man's reddish hair and beard and sunburnt face made a spot of colour in the leaden grey landscape; his vigorous personality was in strong contrast to the impersonal solemnity of the marsh.

  • She was an odd-looking old lady, with jet black hair and curiously light-coloured eyes, which were in strong contrast to her very dark complexion, and gave her rather a strange expression.

  • He seemed to multiply his defences in proportion to the little he had to defend; in strong contrast to his antagonist's short, nervous, home-thrust arguments.

  • Constance gave her a significant glance, a strong contrast to the earnest simplicity of Fleda's face, and presently inquired if she ever wrote poetry.

  • The Banquet music (strings only) is bagpipey, and the marches for Macbeth and Macduff are stirring and in strong contrast, while there is fine battle music for the close.

  • The second theme in the relative minor {44} is very pathetic, and in strong contrast to the first.

  • Such extent of suffrage ought surely to content the most democratic, and certainly presents a strong contrast to the farce of national representation which has been so long enacting in the Peninsula.

  • Between the state of Portugal and that of Spain there are, at the present moment, points of strong contrast, and others of striking similarity.

  • As I entered the house before the rising of the curtain, I had leisure to look about me, and I found even in the audience a strong contrast to those of London.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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