Olson is a study in contrasts: at 53, he looks the part of the banker he once was, but he often seems like a highly intelligent 15-year-old boy.
"Without cynicism but with scrupulous detachment," David C. Mearns wrote in The New York Times Book Review, Professor Current "has produced a learned, lively 'portrait in contrasts' at once provocative, captivating and punctilious.
Writing about the series in November of that year, Roger Angell observed, The two participants in this unusual, north-south mid-American beer-town matchup — the Grand Ole Opry of baseball, Gorman Thomas called it — presented so many co-existent similarities and contrasts at the outset that some larger conclusion than the mere determination of a winner seemed to be at issue.
Throughout, we see the capital as a spectacle of contrasts: at night, elegant Berliners fill a debaucherous cabaret as poverty persists nearby; cosmopolitanism exists alongside outright bigotry; and citizens cling either to a tenuous status quo or to dreams of revolution.
(In Romneyland, "contrasts" — at least as they illustrated them against Newt Gingrich in Florida — is code for an all-out, aggressive, and often negative line of attack, which already started this week against Mr. Santorum in surrogate appearances, conference calls and emails).
Such causal statements reveal the relevant contrasts at both the cause- and the effect-ends.
In the weather example, daylight hours and temperature differences are noted with the property contrasts at high and low latitudes.
Convenience of reporting photopic values to characterize electrochromic devices compared to reporting contrasts at a single wavelength is remarked.
On the other hand, typical velocity contrasts at a mid-crustal reflector and Moho are less than 1.0 km/s (Arai et al. 2009).
This geostatistical approach enables us to predict treatment responses or contrasts at points or regular blocks across a landscape, or estimate averages over the whole landscape.
Variations in the abundance of SO2 above the cloud tops (90 110 km altitude) should affect the contrasts at 283 nm compared to 365 nm.
