That image contrasted with reality- Bulger was a pint-sized bully who wore lifts in his shoes and followed no codes - he snitched, killed women and preyed on the weak.
Perception contrasts with reality; the quiet of peace and safety is juxtaposed with the quiet of death; a human life no longer counts in the face of the calculations of total war.
Many techniques assume that the rules of landscape change are the same everywhere within the study area, an assumption that contrasts with reality in many municipal regions, which have spatially varying development restrictions.
Colorful ritual is contrasted with seedy reality.
The nihilism and violence that are often found in our music and film should be recognized as the cynical entertainment that they are when contrasted with the reality of Sept. 11.
The concept of IC being a targeted and time-limited intervention of six weeks was contrasted with a reality of prolonged lengths of stays in IC facilities.
A different respondent complained that trying to teach students to be good scientists in today's environment is difficult, because idealistic lessons in scientific integrity are always contrasted with the realities of the commercial world, where one finds "exactly the opposite".
It's a strategy called mental contrasting, in which a desired future outcome is contrasted with the realities we currently face and may face in the pursuit of our goals.
Teatro Delusio The glamour of life on stage is contrasted with the mundane realities of backstage existence in Familie Flöz's masked theatre show, in which reality and unreality collide in fantastical style.
Mental contrasting is a strategy in which a desired future outcome is contrasted with the challenging realities we currently face and may face in the pursuit of our goal.
