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.

" 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.

This configuration was replaced by a 3-rise staircase, with a turning basin to enable boats to negotiate the extremely sharp left hand turn at the bottom of the flight.

The Bill was subject to sharp criticism from both sides of the House of Commons before passing its second Commons reading in November 2006, but was defeated in the Lords in March 2007.

Approximate readings may be obtained by reading the position of the weight on the scale, or a more accurate reading may be obtained as follows: The upper edge of the shelf on which the weights slide is graduated into equal divisions, and the weight is provided with a sharp tongue of metal in order that its position on the shelf may be accurately determined.

The fovea is responsible for sharp central vision ( also called foveal vision ), which is necessary in humans for reading, watching, driving, and any activity where visual detail is of primary importance.

His concise wit, sharp focus, and sense of abstraction make them interesting reading even for those who have not seen his paintings.

At the poker table, he is known for wearing orange-tinted prescription sunglasses, a sharp suit ( or leather jacket ) and gold knuckleduster rings reading " Devil " and " Fish ", which he made himself.

With the rise of these activities, interest in such institutions as book discussion groups ( and reading in general ), public lectures, and the fine arts is in sharp decline.

The name is derived from the fovea of the human eye, which enables sharp imaging while reading or watching television.

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

Lord Rivers, who usually dies offstage ( or in the case of Olivier's film offscreen ) is impaled by the device of a sharp spike spurting up from the bottom of his mattress while he lies in bed during sex with a woman in a hotel room.

" Toynbee described him as " a short, round man with slicked down hair, wearing a sharp Western suit "; they talked from " throne-like " chairs in " an enormous room " reached via " corridors of bowing girls dressed in white ".

King Claudius: Henry Wakefield, a long-suffering and cynical old Englishman with a sharp tongue and a list of prejudices five miles ( 8 km ) long, forced to room with Queen Gertrude's player.

The Brazilian duly pulled alongside, but, at that moment, Schlesser ran out of room and, wishing to keep his Williams on the track, turned sharp left to make the corner.

These established her as a leading comedy actress, particularly when playing the type of vivacious lady in drawing room comedies that TIME magazine called " a Marie Tempest part ... a sprightly, well-bred matron, with a feline manner and a sharp tongue but a heart of gold.

In the underground room where even light couldn't reach, he used a sharp stick to cut his face and used the blood to write a diary, this left him with two scars on his face.

This is likely to have exchange rate implications: a sharp loss of value in the deficit economy ’ s exchange rate with the surplus economy ’ s currency will change the relative price of tradable goods, and facilitate a return to balance or ( more likely ) an over-shooting into surplus the other direction.

When the police use search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays, etching tools or other sharp or pointed objects used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces, and permanent marking pens, such as markers or paint sticks ; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew, paraphernalia to include any reference to “( tagger ’ s name ),” and any drawings, writings, objects or graffiti depicting taggers ’ names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or mention of tagging crew membership ; any newspaper clippings relating details of or referring to any graffiti crime.

The sea urchin builds its spicules, the sharp crystalline " bones " that constitute the animal ’ s endoskeleton, in the larval stage.

The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.

:" The sharp sorrow of pain descends on a woman in labour, the bitterness that the hard Eileithyiai bring on, Hera ’ s daughters, who hold the power of the bitter birth pangs .”

Even as I fell I heard the door slam, which brought me a little comfort … that meant they were not pursuing me down the street with a stick, to beat me .”) “ into an environment where he cannot exist but cannot escape … Whereas Godot ’ s existence remains uncertain, here an external force exists ” “ represented by a sharp, inhuman, disembodied whistle ” which will not permit him to leave ; “ like Jacob, wrestles with it to illustrate its substance .” In simplistic terms the man ’ s actual fall could be seen to represent the fall of Man.

Lynch states that much of the troubles during Robert III ’ s reign derived from the sharp deterioration of the royal revenues.

These efforts were brought into sharp focus with America ’ s entry into World War II.

Research has shown that that visual stimuli with the single visual features of sharp borders, sharp onset / offset times, motion, and low spacial frequency contribute to, but are not strictly necessary for, an object ’ s salience in blindsight.

His sharp satire and indignation inspired Radischev's most famous work-A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow-in which he emulates Novikov ’ s harsh and passionate style.

Szpilman describes the scene :< p > I played Chopin ’ s Nocturne in C sharp minor.

In sharp contrast to all other Gypsy portrayals, she is technologically savvy, and, instead of resorting to incantations or obscure rituals, is able to create a computer algorithm that would make possible the restoration of Angel ’ s soul.

Bachman ’ s Warbler ’ s song is composed of a rapid series six to twenty-five buzz notes, sometimes ending in a sharp, slurred note zip.

Males ’ jaws tend to be wider and taller than female jaws and often have a sharp corner at the back.

King Edgar ’ s Laws contain a sharp Constitution touching this money ( Leg.

17 and five Etudes d ’ execution transcendante by Liszt ; Schumann ’ s Kreisleriana and the Bach-Busoni Chaconne ; Bach-Busoni Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, Glinka-Balakirev The Lark and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition ; Schumann ’ s Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor and Carnaval ; and an all-Brahms disc including Sonata No. 3 in F Minor and five Hungarian dances.

During a period in which various methods of temperament were used by keyboards, strings and even singers, Tosi laments that “ except in some few Professors, that modern Intonation is very bad .” He speaks of a differing “ Semitone Major and Minor ” ( or a larger and a smaller semitone ) whose “ ifference cannot be known by an Organ or Harpsichord, if the Keys of the Instrument are not split .” Consequentially, he warns that “ if a Soprano was to sing D sharp, like E flat, a nice Ear will find he is out of Tune, because this last rises .” Tosi ’ s remedy to poor intonation is to begin the singer young on solfege, using the traditional gamut created by Guido.

Tight price controls and sharp increases in the minimum wage also ensured that the worker ’ s real minimum wage index reached its highest level since the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas.