And there are certainly contrasts with the modern age.
Clarke's manner certainly contrasted to the livewire, track-suited, jack-in-the-box figure five yards to his left.
Such ambition certainly contrasts with the reluctance of Mr. Gandhi to take the reins of power, even though they have been handed to him on a silver platter.
It certainly contrasts sharply with the portrait of his Socialist predecessor François Mitterrand, seated in front of book-lined wall, an open book in his lap.
But its clean harmonies and clear textures certainly contrasted sharply to the first two pieces in Kristjan Järvi's concert of Reich's works for voices and orchestras with the London Symphony Orchestra and Synergy Vocals the following evening.
Margaret Thatcher has been granted a ceremonial funeral - which, although not quite as high an honour as the state funeral accorded to Winston Churchill in 1965, certainly contrasts sharply with the funeral of Clement Attlee, who died in 1967.
His review certainly contrasts with most of the stateside reviews, including that of Anthony Lane, who, this week in the magazine, calls it "Incoherent, overblown, and grimy with misogyny" and suspects the director, Zack Snyder, and Alan Moore, the author of the graphic novel on which the film is based, of "metaphysical vulgarity".
The two hopefuls are certainly contrasting, with the right-hander Hameed accumulating 1,154 runs in Division One this summer and earning the tag of "Baby Boycott", while Duckett, a left-hander, is the more aggressive and so could yet be more to the liking of the head coach, Trevor Bayliss.
From the very first uneasy chord it is very obviously a searching, serious piece and, I think, one of Reich's major statements, and certainly contrasts sharply with the ever-elegant but much more bland Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings, which began life as a joint commission for the London Sinfonietta and the Akram Khan Company.
