Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

Dreyer often shot the priests and Joan's other interrogators in high contrast lighting, but then shot Joan in soft, even lighting.

" In contrast, some artists, including Joan Osborne and Paula Abdul, made appearances on the show to provide further information on their popped videos.

A possible explanation for the lower rates of volcanism in the Garibaldi chain is that the associated terrain is being compressed in contrast to the more southern portions of the Cascade Arc.

In the final aspect of the vision, Israel ’ s restoration, as a holy place, is declared in contrast to the Edomite lineage that shall end.

So, according to Obadiah there will not remain even a remnant after Edom ’ s judgment ; This is in contrast to Amos 9: 12, where Amos refers to such a remnant, however, it is stated that their possession will be given to Israel.

This demarcation can be made by noting the presence of external gills in the mudpuppy, which are lacking in the hellbender, as well as by noting the presence of four toes on each hind foot of the mudpuppy ( in contrast with the hellbender ’ s five ).

In Poland, for example, today ’ s 14 % level of unionisation is in marked contrast to that of the Soviet-controlled era, when almost all workplaces were unionised.

In contrast, Stalin and allies proposed that alliances with capitalist political parties were essential to realising a revolution where Communists were too few ; said Stalinist practice failed, especially in the Northern Expedition portion of the Chinese Revolution ( 1925 – 1927 ), wherein it resulted in the right-wing Kuomintang ’ s massacre of the Chinese Communist Party ; nonetheless, despite the failure, Stalin ’ s policy of mixed-ideology political alliances, became Comintern policy.

Rather than having a specific message for any of his films, Pyryev promoted Stalin ’ s slogan “ life has become better, life has become more joyous .” Sometimes this message was in stark contrast with the reality of the time.

Four years later the club adopted the traditional uniform of blue and white vertical stripes at the insistence of the VFA, who wanted a visible contrast between Geelong's and Hotham ’ s uniforms.

For example, in order to contrast the people ’ s disobedience with the obedience of the Rechabites, God has Jeremiah invite the Rechabites to drink wine, in disobedience to their ancestor ’ s command.

In contrast to the misfortunes of Scott ’ s team, Amundsen ’ s trek proved rather smooth and uneventful.

“ Throughout his career Capra depended upon his skill as an editor to achieve the contrast of the individual and the group, critical in the success of his Hollywood movies .” Capra thought it would be most effective to use the enemy ’ s original film and propaganda in the series in order to expose the enemies with their own images.

In contrast to Confucius ’ li-based theory, the Legalism advocates the utilization of codified laws and harsh punishment to achieve social order.

By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882, 412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English ( later British ) East India Company, the VOC ’ s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2, 690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.

This vision clashes with an older interpretation of the First Republic as a progressive and increasingly democratic regime that presented a clear contrast to Salazar ’ s ensuing dictatorship.

In contrast, Economic norms theory shows how market-contracting is a learned norm, and state spending, regulation, and redistribution are necessary to ensure that most everyone can participate in the “ social market ” economy, which is in everyone ’ s interests.

Knowledge results from hypotheses verified in the contrast with a real object ; this real object, despite being mediated by the subject ’ s theoretical frame, retains its materiality and will offer resistance to those ideas that do not conform to its truth.

In contrast, he said that Congress was promoting a coup d ’ état or a civil war with a declaration full of affirmations that had already been refuted beforehand and which, in substance and process ( directly handing it to the ministers rather than directly handing it to the President ) violated a dozen articles of the ( then-current ) Constitution.

" The report shows that, in contrast to the use of disposable nappies, it is consumers ’ behaviour after purchase that determines most of the impacts from reusable nappies.

The troubled loans are now weighing on the agency ’ s capital reserve fund, which by early 2012 had fallen below its congressionally mandated minimum of 2 %, in contrast to more than 6 % two years earlier.

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

This theory is in contrast to Fisher ’ s theory that male sexual traits, such as the peacock ’ s train, are the result of selection for attractive traits because these traits are considered attractive.

In contrast to Petrie ’ s findings, a seven-year Japanese study of free-ranging peafowl came to the conclusion that female peafowl do not select mates merely on the basis of their trains.

In contrast to the tiger, these emperor penguin s show that teeth and claws are not necessary to be a carnivore.

Bottom: Phase contrast micrograph s of a serpentine channel ~ 15 μm wide.

The semimajor axis | semimajor axes of resonant trans-Neptunian object s ( red ) are clumped at locations of low-integer resonances with Neptune ( vertical red bars near top ), in contrast to those of cubewano s ( blue ) and nonresonant ( or not known to be resonant ) scattered disk | scattered objects ( grey ).

In contrast, in many seed plant s and heterosporous fern s, only a single product of meiosis will become a megaspore ( macrospore ), with the rest degenerating.

In contrast to the earlier series, many of Tom Jr .' s inventions are designed to operate in space, and his " genius is unequivocally original as he constructs nuclear-powered flying labs, establishes outposts in space, or designs ways to sail in space on cosmic rays ".

; trans: A trans configuration, by contrast, means that the next two hydrogen atoms are bound to opposite sides of the double bond.

In a footnote, which was published as a correction in the next issue of the journal, he justified his suggestion to call organs of unicellular organisms " organella " since they are only differently formed parts of one cell, in contrast to multicellular organs of multicellular organisms.

Two important examples are the contrast between the lines, " Quick, send in the clowns " and " Well, maybe next year.

In contrast, promotion from one dan to the next can take years.

The logical topology, in contrast, is the way that the signals act on the network media, or the way that the data passes through the network from one device to the next without regard to the physical interconnection of the devices.

By contrast, the May 2004 survey found that 26 % of all Israelis supported the Accords and 18 % believed that the Accords would result in peace in the next few years.

The tall structures, characteristic window boxes, detailed metal carvings and overhanging eaves of these buildings make a stark contrast with the view of the bay that is obtained by stepping out of the shady alleyways next to the cathedral and onto the old city walls.

Although Roderick Hudson featured mostly American characters in a European setting, James made the Europe – America contrast even more explicit in his next novel.

In contrast, each of the other modes describe a process where ciphertext from one block encryption step gets intermixed with the data from the next encryption step.

Iron, by contrast, is definitely a solid at, but over the next it becomes increasingly plastic and more " taffy-like " as its temperature increases.

In contrast, the next wave of bands, formed from about 1967, like Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After and Free, pursued a different route, retaining blues standards in their repertoire and producing original material that often shied away from obvious pop influences, placing an emphasis on individual virtuosity.

* The new synagoge, which opened in 2007, consists of a white cube and stands in contrast to the round shape of the planetarium next door.

Blonde Betty is the sweet wholesome hometown " girl next door ," in contrast to brunette Veronica, a spoiled and often selfish rich girl.

By contrast, in engines with more cylinders the power strokes overlap: the next piston starts its power stroke before the previous one has finished, and the delivery of power is much smoother.

By contrast, non-herbaceous perennial plants are woody plants which have stems above ground that remain alive during the dormant season and grow shoots the next year from the above-ground parts – these include trees, shrubs and vines.

To contrast, in a process that is not a martingale, it may still be the case that the expected value of the process at one time is equal to the expected value of the process at the next time.

The idyllic setting and small town environment makes for a sharp contrast with the booming urban centre next door.

Within the next few years and down to c 820 BC, rich members of the community were cremated and buried close to the eastern end of the building, in much the same way as Christians might seek to be buried close to a saint's grave ; the presence of imported objects, notable throughout more than eighty further burials, contrast with other nearby cemeteries at Lefkandi and attest to a lasting elite tradition.

The odds of an adult Yellow Warbler to survive from one year to the next are on average 50 %; in the southern populations, by contrast, about two-thirds of the adults survive each year.

' In contrast, a poignant scene in volume nine sees Hob weeping next to the grave of the latest of his wives to die: ' I thought we'd have longer.

In contrast to many Old World monkeys such as macaques, in which females socially inherit the rank just below their mothers and just above their next oldest sisters, capuchins do not have a highly predictable ranking within their matrilines.

Popitz by contrast, while agreeing with Goerdeler that the unstable former Kaiser was unsuitable, insisted on dynastic grounds that the Crown Prince Wilhelm be the next Emperor, and was to spent much time arguing with Goerdeler over which of the sons of the former Emperor was to sit on the throne.

The contrast between broad and slender consonants plays a critical role not only in distinguishing the individual consonants themselves, but also in the pronunciation of the surrounding vowels, in the determination of which consonants can stand next to which other consonants, and in the behavior of words that begin with a vowel.

The ‘ corpse within its grave ’ ( l. 8 ) in the next line is in contrast to the ‘ azure sister of the Spring ’ ( l. 9 ) – a reference to the east wind – whose ‘ living hues and odours ’ ( l. 12 ) evoke a strong contrast to the colors of the fourth line of the poem that evoke death.