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, 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.

" In sharp contrast, Swinburne the poet would comment on this same theme: " Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean ; the world has grown grey from thy breath ; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.

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

He possibly served as a squire to Henry Bolingbroke ( later Henry IV of England ), son of John of Gaunt, at the short, sharp Battle of Radcot Bridge in December 1387.

Skaði tells Loki that he is " light-hearted " and that Loki will not be " playing [...] with tail wagging free " for much longer, for soon the gods will bind Loki to a sharp rock with the ice-cold entrails of his son.

He made a sharp contrast to his father — who was tall, strong and sandy-haired — and gossip at the time suggested he was not John's son.

Her sharp criticism of the BIA resulted in the dismissal of her husband from it in 1916, following which the couple relocated with their son to Washington D. C.

With the sharp increase in factional meetings held all over Kerala, mostly led by his son K. Muraleedharan, Indian National Congress suspended Muraleedharan from the party.

Scarne began practicing sleight of hand with the goal of becoming a card sharp, but his Roman Catholic mother dissuaded her son from gambling in general, and cheating others in particular.

Fearing that she's being rejected again, Jade leaves, but misses Frank's sharp rebuke of his own son.

Sandy manages to lure the man into Ida's boathouse, which she sets on fire ; Ida's son is mortally burned in the blaze, but still manages to leap from the water and attack Sandy, chasing her up a hill where she yanks a sharp signpost from the ground and impales the mutant with it.

He later told Utah Jazz officials he cut it while confiscating a sharp kitchen knife away from his 2-year-old son.

Most linguists consider Northern Thai to be more closely related to Thai and the other Chiang Saeng languages than to Lao and the Lao – Phutai languages, but the distinction is never easy to make, as the languages form a continuum with few sharp dividing lines.

" No fear for wind and storm and with the emergence of the Sun, a sharp contrast will be found between black and white ".

The musical's enduring popularity lies in its light-hearted innocence and apparent simplicity, in sharp contrast to the many " hard-nosed " American musicals of the era, and its bright score including the songs " We Said We Wouldn't Look Back ", " I Sit in the Sun ", and " We're Looking for a Piano ".

Under Dana's control, The Sun opposed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson ; it supported Grant for the presidency in 1868 ; it was a sharp critic of Grant as president ; and in 1872 took part in the Liberal Republican revolt and urged Greeley's nomination.

I have no picture in my mind of the garden as a whole -- that I could not see -- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ;

The Earl, finding himself obliged, by the gallentry of the action, thought fit to make his acknowlegements thereof, by granting them several Privileges and Immunities, and to perpetuate the memory of so signal an attempt, instituted an Order, somewhat like a Military Order, into which were admitted only those Brave Women, deriving the honour to their Descendants, and assigned them for a Badge, a thing like a Fryars Capouche, sharp at the top, after the form of a Torch, and of a crimson colour, to be worn upon their Head-clothes.

One of the most interesting aspects of sharp waves is that they appear to be associated with memory.

This idea forms a key component of the " two-stage memory " theory, advocated by Buzsáki and others, which proposes that memories are stored within the hippocampus during behavior, and then later transferred to the neocortex during sleep: sharp waves are suggested to drive Hebbian synaptic changes in the neocortical targets of hippocampal output pathways.

The long-anticipated wedding was put off to coincide with the characters ' marriage in the comics, which led to many storylines designed to delay and interrupt the wedding on the TV series Another controversy erupted when ABC announced that the wedding would actually take place Valentine's Day weekend, even sending out heart-shaped " wedding invitations " to ABC News staff, only to present viewers with a bogus wedding in which Clark unwittingly married a clone of Lois, developed by a mad scientist whose creations were required to ingest frogs periodically which started a main thrilling climax of a special five-part story with Lois being kidnapped by Lex Luthor who had put the clone in her place and later after a sharp hit on the head had amnesia and needed to regain her memory.

Today Ms. McCoy's sharp memory recalls a woman, witty, intelligent and kind with a wonderful speaking voice.

Ungar's genius-level IQ and eidetic memory contributed to his blackjack abilities, which were so sharp that he was frequently banned from playing in casinos ; he was eventually unable to play blackjack in Las Vegas or anywhere else.

She was still in good shape at the time of her death, loved to talk, and still had a sharp memory.

He soon found that wing venation alone was not enough to classify the Dipera correctly and he began to make drawings of the antennae viewed under a 20-power wooden-framed microscope purchased at the fair in Aachen, This, a lens of about 6-power, and his own very sharp eyesight and visual memory led him to the next important conclusion, that the Diptera could only be classified using character combinations ; what is now known as an eclectic system ..

He does not engage the teenagers on the sharp end of opening theory, testing his ailing memory against the freshness of their computer-assisted analysis.

Being an elephant, Dumbo's memory is usually very good, his hearing is very sharp and sometimes his sneezes are often strong-strong enough to cause some wind.