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The contrast between the " careful control against the almost inconceivable perversion of his scheme " and " the ridiculousness of the proposal " create a situation in which the reader has " to consider just what perverted values and assumptions would allow such a diligent, thoughtful, and conventional man to propose so perverse a plan ".
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contrast and between
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.
I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.
A red filter, Zeiss barrier filter with the code ( Schott ) designation BG 23, was also used in the ocular lens assembly as it improved the contrast between specific and nonspecific fluorescence.
By contrast, even experienced linguists commonly know no more of the range of possibilities in tone systems than the over-simple distinction between register and contour languages.
For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.
In Pimen's cell the soft prayers of the monks, heard from offstage, not only help to set the scene but emphasize the contrast between young Grigori's thoughts and his situation.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
But there was a contrast even more decisive than a hunger for fact between the Trial in Jerusalem and those in Moscow and New York.
There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.
The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian.
In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.
However, there is an interesting contrast between the belief that exposure of signs to a hearing infant will aid them in language development, whereas a deaf infant at times must show the inability to learn an oral language before they are taught sign language.
By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.
This was in marked contrast to the four attempts at political union between 1606 and 1689, which all failed owing to a lack of political will in both kingdoms.
The contrast between a high level of education and a low level of political rights was particularly great in Aarau, and the city refused to send troops to defend the Bernese border.
Anne does not want to accept the invitation, but Charlotte convinces her to do so to heighten the contrast between the older woman and the young teenager.
By contrast, evidence based on the textual differences between the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text has been used to argue that the context of the MT truly does depict a historical Jeremiah.
The contrast between common law and civil law systems is elaborated in " Contrasts between common law and civil law systems " and " Alternatives to common law systems ", below.
The contrast between civil law and common law legal systems has become increasingly blurred, with the growing importance of jurisprudence ( similar to case law but not binding ) in civil law countries, and the growing importance of statute law and codes in common law countries.
This contrast is brought out in issues such as voluntary euthanasia-a pure consequentialist would see no moral difference between allowing a patient to die by, for example, withholding food ; switching off their life-support machine ; or actively killing them with harmful drugs.
contrast and careful
His graphic descriptions were placed into context by the careful interviews he did with older Ik to contrast the older society that existed prior to displacement to create a park.
Through more careful readings, scholars have concluded that Gregory's underlying purpose was to highlight the vanity of secular life and contrast it with the miracles of the Saints.
In contrast to his public unscrupulousness, Burghley's private life seems to have been upright ; he was a faithful husband, a careful father and a dutiful master.
By contrast Brzezinski was careful, in managing his own weekly luncheons with Secretaries Vance and Brown in preparation for NSC discussions, to maintain a complete set of careful notes.
By contrast, those who choose downtown living tend to see it as more of a community, but must pay careful attention to their tolerances ( for smog, noise pollution, crime, taxation, etc .).
His brother Liu Xiu, by contrast, was a careful and deliberate man, who was content to be a farmer.
In contrast, TTL circuits, while similarly modular, often require much more careful interfacing, since the limited fanout ( and fan-in ) require that the loading of each output be carefully considered.
He developed and clarified methods of controlled experiment by substitution tests in which informants distinguish repetition from contrast, the most careful formulation of which he called the pair test ( Harris 1951: 32 ).
His brother Liu Xiu, by contrast, was a careful and deliberate man, who was content to be a farmer.
Liu Xiu, in contrast, was a careful man who was content to be a farmer.
Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main characters, much in contrast to his companion Vladimir's careful intellectualism and verbosity.
In contrast to many other comparable craftsmen, as a painter he attached great importance to the careful elaboration of ornaments.
Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by the English critic James Wood in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful, detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena.
He had a brother, Liu Xiu who, by contrast, was a careful and deliberate man, who was content to be a farmer.
Liu Xiu, in contrast, was a careful man who was content to be a farmer.
contrast and control
In contrast to the direct innervation of the medulla, the cortex is regulated by neuroendocrine hormones secreted from the pituitary gland which are under the control of the hypothalamus, as well as by the renin-angiotensin system.
In contrast, modern control theory is carried out in the state space, and can deal with multi-input and multi-output ( MIMO ) systems.
In contrast to the frequency domain analysis of the classical control theory, modern control theory utilizes the time-domain state space representation, a mathematical model of a physical system as a set of input, output and state variables related by first-order differential equations.
In contrast to previous general secretaries, Chernenko did not control the Cadre Department of the Central Committee, making Chernenko's position considerably weaker.
Karl Popper defined democracy in contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the people to control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution.
A skilled fighter, in contrast, can perform takedowns as a way of progressing to a superior position such as a mount or side control, or using clinch holds and ground positions to set up strikes, choke holds, and joint locks.
In contrast with the Reichsgut, which was mostly scattered and difficult to administer, these territories were relatively compact and thus easier to control.
In contrast, requiring only a single small incision, the " Bonati system " ( invented by Dr. Alfred Bonati ), uses a single 5-function control, so that a saline solution and the vacuum pump operate together when the laser cutter is activated.
In contrast, when a random variable takes values from a continuum, probabilities are nonzero only if they refer to finite intervals: in quality control one might demand that the probability of a " 500 g " package containing between 490 g and 510 g should be no less than 98 %.
In contrast, a non-player character ( often shortened to NPC ) is a character in a game whose actions are not under the player's control.
Systems programmers, in contrast, write programs to maintain and control computer systems software, such as operating systems and database management systems.
This is in contrast to nekton organisms that can swim against the ambient flow and control their position ( e. g. squid, fish, and marine mammals ).
By contrast, Askin put forward a wide-ranging program of reform and addressed contentious issues including the introduction of State Aid for private schools, making rent control fairer and the legalisation of off-course betting on horse races.
In contrast, libertarian socialism proposes the traditional view of direct worker's control of the means of production and opposes the use of state power to achieve such an arrangement, opposing both parliamentary politics and state ownership over the means of production.
Semiconductor detectors can be made in radial segments that can be switched in or out to control the type of contrast produced and its directionality.
Printed media in Thailand is subject to much less government control in contrast to the television where all free-to-air channels except one are government owned and run.
By contrast, it is called a defensive, or " soft " block if the goal is to control and deflect the hard-driven ball up so that it slows down and becomes more easy to be defended.
In contrast, modern versions of X generally have extensions such as MESA allowing local display of a local program's graphics to be optimized to bypass the network model and directly control the video card, for use of full-screen video, rendered 3D applications, and other such applications.
* the information exchange concerning the establishment and control of a telecommunication circuit and the management of the network, in contrast to user information transfer
When controllers are responsible for separating some or all aircraft, such airspace is called " controlled airspace " in contrast to " uncontrolled airspace " where aircraft may fly without the use of the air traffic control system.
A fuzzy control system is a control system based on fuzzy logic — a mathematical system that analyzes analog input values in terms of logical variables that take on continuous values between 0 and 1, in contrast to classical or digital logic, which operates on discrete values of either 1 or 0 ( true or false, respectively ).
In contrast, an additional class of controls, termed discretionary access controls, are under the direct control of the system users.
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