Sentence examples for dialogue against from inspiring English sources

Above all, Atwood cleverly sets the passages of remembered dialogue against prevailing silence.

Sylvester Mazzolini defended the pope against Luther in his "Dialogue Against the Presumptuous Theses of Martin Luther".

His solution was to make a 1920s-style silent film with captioned dialogue against an accompaniment of Mozart fortepiano fantasias.

"Abstraction" (1955), a large canvas in which geometric and more ambiguous forms engage in spirited dialogue against diaphanous fields of color, displays an impressive sureness of paint handling.

(Jacobi, 1787: 67ff) These autobiographical remarks come on the heels of a defence, in the first part of the Dialogue, against the accusation of irrationalism brought against him chiefly because of his use of the term 'faith' (Glaube, in German) in the Spinoza Letters.

Among Gregoras's other notable works are philosophical dialogues against the Sophists, studies in astronomy, a commentary on the Almagest of the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, eulogies for several emperors, and a proposal for calendar reform that anticipated Pope Gregory XIII's revision of 1582.

Love is timeless and I think that we really strive for that, to fight against the dialogue, fight against the costumes, to try not to be swallowed up by the sets and the opulence of it.

It may be that, for Schrader, Tarantino's clever dialogue counts against him.

Expect Milne's almost forensic approach to character and some cracking dialogue set against the background of modern Westminster.

At his best, Winton writes with an unsentimental lyricism that remains rooted in the Australian vernacular; rough, choked dialogue clashing against passages of great beauty.

But besides the waves of dialogue splashing against one another, this project has a welcome aural bonus that movies about dance often deny audiences -- the pounding of the dancers' feet on the floors, the noise of the expenditure of effort.