The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

This was in sharp contrast to his insistence, for more than 30 years, that those killed on the day had not been innocent.

In sharp contrast to his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and to Sun Yat-sen, his memory is rarely invoked by current political parties, including the Kuomintang.

In sharp contrast, decolonization was an entirely different process of state formation.

In sharp contrast to the traditional Catholic church, the Cathars had a single sacrament, the Consolamentum, or Consolation.

By contrast, the Soviet Union's transition was much more problematic and its successor republics faced a sharp decline in GDP during the early 1990s.

David casts them in a soft light, not in the sharp contrast of Brutus or of the Horatii.

He took his cast to the Napa Valley for much of the outdoor shooting, but these scenes were in sharp contrast to those obviously filmed on a Hollywood soundstage, resulting in a disjointed look to the film.

Most parts of Greenwich Village comprise mid-rise apartments, 19th-century row houses and the occasional one-family walk-up, a sharp contrast to the hi-rise landscape in Mid-and Downtown Manhattan.

In sharp contrast to the violence that characterized land reform in the French Revolution, Germany handled it peacefully.

The handsome, athletic young king stood in sharp contrast to his wary, miserly father.

But, this is in sharp contrast with the contextually relative interpretation of historicism that its proponents argue for.

While the Jewish Messiah is considered to be one of the things that precede creation, he is not considered to be divine nor is he considered to be Jesus, in sharp contrast to Christian belief.

< p > How painful, sad and sobering is the sharp contrast between the clear attitude that should prevail in a pure Torah community and the confusion that exists among well-intentioned individuals within our communities.

The downside of anti-aliasing is that it reduces contrast – rather than sharp black / white transitions, there are shades of gray – and the resulting image is fuzzy.

In sharp contrast, the Red-legged Kittiwake has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the Pribilof, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Islands in Russia.

They point out that the success of the scientific method comes from its adherence to open rational exploration, not its conclusions, in sharp contrast to dogma and predetermined predictions.

His perseverance in the face of some astronomical scores by the fearsome quartet of Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Navjot Sidhu and Vinod Kambli was in sharp contrast to the submission with which his team-mates played the series.

With GDP per capita of less than $ 2, 000, North Korea remains as one of the world's poorest and least developed countries, in sharp contrast to its neighbor South Korea, which has one of the largest economies in Asia.

Glyndŵr offered to release Mortimer for a large ransom but, in sharp contrast to his attitude to de Grey, Henry IV refused to pay.

In Henry IV Shakespeare portrays him as wild and exotic ; a man ruled by magic and tradition in sharp contrast to the more logical but highly emotional Hotspur.

Hieroglyphs retained their pictorial appearance and classical authors emphasised this aspect, in sharp contrast to the Greek and Roman alphabets.

With this acquaintance Betty got to know an accomplished writer and poet with a sharp mind ( and a sad past — Betty's research had turned up a beau of Ms. Wyndham's who was killed in combat ), but after a while Ms. Wyndham herself died.

In particular the piano's rhythms constantly express the moods of the poet, like the distinctive rhythm of " Auf dem Flusse ", the restless syncopated figures in " Rückblick ", the dramatic tremolos in " Einsamkeit ", the glimmering clusters of notes in " Irrlicht ", or the sharp accents in " Der stürmische Morgen ".

He describes himself as a " sharp tongued, high energy social surrealist poet and songwriter.

In 1630, John Taylor, a poet wrote At Bow, the Thursday after Pentecost, There is a fair of green geese ready rost, Where, as a goose is ever dog cheap there, The sauce is over somewhat sharp and deare., taking advantage of the double entendre and continuing with other verses describing the drunken rowdy behaviour of the crowds.

Often transcending beyond ordinary human capabilities, the poet reaches the higher territories of sharp intellectualism.

Serious financial differences arose between the poet and his publisher, and Dryden's letters to Tonson ( 1695 – 7 ) are full of complaints of meanness and sharp practice and of refusals to accept clipped or bad money.

She is a novelist and a poet, and as well a journalist and sharp columnist with her own on media criticism based TV-program every week.

He praised the work, but foresaw that the poet would " not be wreathed with laurels but bitter wormwood, so maybe this is why his creations are often shot with sharp sarcasm and cold irony ".

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Through the swathings of terror, she jabbed deceit's sharp point -- Amy would be reborn, a new child, with new parents, living under new circumstances.

It was unlikely that any girl as sharp as Mary Jane Brennan would believe it without proof.

The mid-term elections in 1862 brought the Republicans severe losses due to sharp disfavor with the administration over its failure to deliver a speedy end to the war, as well as rising inflation, new high taxes, rumors of corruption, the suspension of habeas corpus, the military draft law, and fears that freed slaves would undermine the labor market.

Arrows designed to pierce armor in the Middle Ages would use a very narrow and sharp tip (" bodkinhead ") to concentrate the force.

Centred in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d ' Ivoire, the Leopard men would dress in leopard skins, waylaying travelers with sharp claw-like weapons in the form of leopards ' claws and teeth.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

He was a great showman, theatrical in appearance, with his sharp jaw and shock of white hair, and people always crowded into his courtroom, knowing there would be something going on.

Many secular motets are known as " ceremonial motets " Characteristic of ceremonial motets was a clarity of diction, for the audience was not presumed to be familiar already with the text ( as would have been true with Latin hymns ) and also a clear articulation of formal structure, for example a setting apart of successive portions of text with sharp contrasts of texture or rhythm.

Both sides would be left open to the air so they could be scraped with a sharp, semi-lunar knife to remove the last of the hair and get the skin to the right thickness.

The hinged bridge would swing onto enemy vessels with a sharp spike and stop them.

* Kirpan ( a curved sword, which comes in different sizes ; for example in the UK Sikhs would wear a small sharp dagger, whereas in the Punjab Sikhs would wear the traditional curved sword, from one to three feet in length ).

In theory, a run down the hill would consist of straight sections across the hill, followed by sharp turns to the complementary angle, as if the skier is being reflected from the edges of the run.

For example, when in the key of C-sharp minor or E major, F, C, G, and D contain a sharp ; adding a double accidental ( double sharp ) to F for example in this case would only raise the already sharp containing note F one half step or semitone, creating G natural, respectively.

Shaffer had a series of conversations with Hardy, and the two decided that it would be fun to make a horror film centring on " old religion ", in sharp contrast to the popular Hammer films of the day.

The condemned or their family would sometimes pay the executioner to ensure that the blade was sharp, to achieve a quick and relatively painless death.

After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot The Lieutenant ; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered-Kelley, on the other hand, would later be cast as Dr. McCoy, the highly emotional human who became Spock's frequent foil.

In sharp contrast to what would become during his Presidency, Johnson was strongly opposed as Senate Majority Leader to Eisenhower's 1957 Civil Rights Act, fearful that its passage would tear his party apart.

( This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter, who would become a staunch champion of Liszt and Wagner's music.