"direct juxtaposition" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It can be used to refer to the circumstance when two words or images are placed side by side for the purpose of comparison or contrast. For example: "The contrasting colors of the artwork created a direct juxtaposition between the vibrant blues and charcoal grays."
Any direct juxtaposition of fashion and conflict is always controversial.
Q: As with much of your work the use of direct juxtaposition features heavily throughout the film.
This method had the advantage of increasing the density of neurons in direct juxtaposition to microchannel entries whereas the wells remained cell-free, thereby reducing the medium turnover to a minimum.
This book offers the first-ever direct juxtaposition of Dalí and Warhol as personalities and artists.
Perhaps in wanting to be normal, he simply wanted to not have to deal with the direct juxtaposition of himself against the rest of the band -- to exist as himself, and not as an outsider.
3C involves the ligation of chromatin that has been formaldehyde cross-linked and restriction digested, converting a physical proximity between two genomic elements into a direct juxtaposition (Figure 1A) [1A].
3C converts physical proximity between genomic elements into direct DNA juxtapositions.
In parallel, a significant fraction of VacA can be transferred from endosomes to mitochondria in a process involving direct endosome-mitochondria juxtaposition.
The closest thing to a direct parallel was the juxtaposition of the orchestras on consecutive evenings: the British period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on Friday and the modern-instrument Budapest Festival Orchestra on Saturday, both conducted by Ivan Fischer at Alice Tully Hall.
The anatomical separation between retinal microglia and RPE cells under normal conditions and their juxtaposition into direct and intimate contact in the subretinal space under pathological situations suggest that cellular interactions between these two retinal cell types may be of particular pathogenetic significance.
The program, which Mr. Barzyk directed, favored illogical juxtapositions and such experimental techniques as asking the audience to tune in simultaneously to the two local WGBH stations, on which they would run contrasting sound and images; another episode featured Abbie Hoffman tossing drugs around the set.
