However, the painting itself is visually stunning, with the Luohan portrayed in rich detail and bright, opaque colors in contrast to a hazy, brown, and bland wooded environment.

Both the illustrations and text are titillating as well as illustrative, in contrast to the bland, clinical style of earlier books about sex.

The sound which was described as mostly bland, music-driven, with DJ's not permitted to talk at length was in stark contrast to the previous locally-focused warm, friendly style.

" In contrast, a 2005 review of the episode also by TrekWeb was more critical of " Fight or Flight ", and categorized it among " stories that were bland and uninspired in its creation and execution, boringly going where everyone else had gone before.

The decision was made to change to a Top 40 / hard rock format, in contrast to what they saw as the rigid, bland presentation of other similar stations in town.

In contrast with this Greek-Western aesthetic taste is the genre of the grotesque.

Another universal phenomenon regarding food is the appeal of contrast in taste and presentation.

A trifle is often used for decoration as well as taste, incorporating the bright, layered colours of the fruit, jelly, egg custard, and the contrast of the cream.

In contrast, Western or Chinese broths have a more complex taste because of a wider mixture of amino acids from bones, meats and vegetables.

* The contrast in taste and texture between the crust and the interior makes the food more interesting to the palate.

Camel cigarettes were originally blended to have a milder taste in contrast to brands that, at the time of its introduction, were considered much harsher.

Longganisang hamonado ( Spanish: longaniza jamonada ), by contrast, is known for its distinctive sweet taste.

The north aisle windows by contrast have richly decorated cusped tracery, reflecting the changes in taste over the long period of construction, and suggesting that this was among the last parts of the church to be finished, probably in the very late thirteenth or early fourteenth centuries.

In contrast to those beverages, Jägermeister has a sweeter taste.

Hylocereus fruit have the advantage of lacking exterior spines, in contrast to the fruit of cacti such as the Selenicereus fruit, being brightly colored, and having a pleasant taste.

In contrast to the psychoanalytic stance, in which the " patient " introjects the ( presumably more healthy ) interpretations of the analyst, in Gestalt therapy the client must " taste " his or her experience, and either accept or reject it, but not introject or " swallow whole ".

By contrast, Camembert is ripened as a small round cheese fully covered by rind changing the ratio between rind and inner part of the cheese ( this affects the taste ).

While various themes have emerged in the marketing campaigns over the years, the basic threads have been independence, liberation, slimness, attractiveness, glamour, style, taste, and a contrast to men's cigarettes.

In contrast, hard cheeses such as cheddar can soften the tannins in wines and make them taste fuller and fruitier.

" In contrast to readymades, yulem objects are not " based on a reaction of visual indifference with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste.

By contrast, figures who appreciated the composition complimented Hosking and Bonomi on their scholarly frontage design ; an arbiter of design taste, John Loudon, described it as a judicious combination of two lodges with gates between.

In contrast, the popular taste of the working classes is defined by an imperative for “ choosing the necessary ”.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.

In contrast to " rhizopods ", where most of their morphologies can be mapped to modern classification systems, " actinopods " appear to be extensively polyphyletic.

Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which are generally portable across multiple systems.

Much of the most highly prized amber is transparent, in contrast to the very common cloudy amber and opaque amber.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

In contrast to most of the figures depicted in the Pāli Canon, Ananda is presented as an imperfect, if sympathetic, figure.

By contrast, while defendants in most civil law systems can be compelled to give a statement, this statement is not subject to cross-examination by the prosecutor and not given under oath.

In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake implies that a visit of Jesus would briefly create heaven in England, in contrast to the " dark Satanic Mills " of the Industrial Revolution.

In contrast most synthetic polymers have much simpler and more random ( or stochastic ) structures.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

In the most common usage, β strand refers to a single continuous stretch of amino acids adopting an extended conformation and involved in backbone hydrogen bonds to at least one other strand ; by contrast, a β sheet refers to an assembly of at least two such β strands that are hydrogen-bonded ( or H-bonded ) to each other.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

* Machine heads at the headstock of a classical guitar point backwards — in contrast to most steel-string guitars, which have machine heads that point outward.

In contrast, most other alkaline halides adopt the sodium chloride ( NaCl ) structure.

This led to very good coverage across most of the country and few problems of interference with other UK-based transmissions ; a stark contrast to the problems associated with Channel 5's launch fourteen and a half years later.

One of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross ( in contrast to the Southern Cross ).

Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful galaxies visible, M51 has many star-forming regions and nebulae in its arms, coloring them pink and blue in contrast to the older yellow core.

In contrast with peanut allergy being most prevalent in the US, celery allergy is most prevalent in Central Europe.

In contrast to both, most Conservative positions affirm the divine but nonverbal revelation of written Torah as the authentic, historically correct Jewish view.

In contrast, most Christian denominations actively seek converts, following the Great Commission, and conversion to Christianity is generally a declaration of faith ( although some denominations view it specifically as adoption into a community of Christ, and orthodox Christian tradition views it as being a literal joining together of the members of Christ's body ).

In contrast to most other nations, the United States considers the three types of agreements as distinct.