The phrase "an element of contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing differences or distinctions between two or more subjects, ideas, or elements.
Example: "In the painting, the artist uses an element of contrast to highlight the differences between light and shadow."
Alternatives: "a contrasting element" or "a point of contrast".
Our cooking session ended up completely dedicated to gyin thoke, a lively ginger salad that can have as many as 20 ingredients, each contributing an element of contrast and surprise.
Mr. Monder worked as an element of contrast: he can be fast and mathematical, and his deep applications of distortion counteracted all the purity of expression and the stirring, pastoral suggestions of the music, like a skeptical monologue during a séance.
Choose something sweet and nutty, but with an element of tartness to contrast with the sugar.
Womack describes Starr's baritone lead vocals as "charmingly sincere" and he credits them with imparting an element of "earnestness in sharp contrast with the ironic distance of the title track".
In contrast, an element of a list requires access time that is proportional to the position of the element in the list.
And the Dumky Trio, Opus 90, contains six dumky (a dumka being a Ukranian folk music form with moods alternating between melancholy and wild abandon); here the element of contrast is stressed to the utmost.
At the very top of the financial scale, there was an element of unpredictability spectacularly illustrated by the contrasting fate of two equally important medieval manuscripts.
I can't help feeling, thinking about it now, that there was an element of histrionic performance in them, too, that contrasted with Andy's usual reserve.
Between 8 30 and 10, movement and stillness are continually juxtaposed: a good many people are stationary — waiting, watching, handling luggage, standing in line for tickets or information, making calls on their cellphones — adding a strong element of visual contrast to the still flowing, though lessening, lines of human traffic.
Mendelssohn's contributions include primarily a new kind of light and deft music, heard especially in his scherzos; a rich melodiousness that embraces all sections of the sonata-form movements (hence removing the element of thematic contrast on which musical conflict depends); and scrupulous attention to detail.
|| is the two norm function, D i is domain elements, R j denotes the range elements, and values of contrast S and lighting O are obtained when minimizing the RMSE criterion (they are the two arguments that minimize the RMSE).
