Sentence examples for drastic contrasts from inspiring English sources

The ballet is made up of drastic contrasts: above all, small steps against huge ones.

But she is demure, without the playful wit or drastic contrasts of scale to illumine the climactic "Theme et Variations".

A year ago I came across a young dancer, DeWitt Fleming Jr., amid an evening of tap at Battery Park, and I remember getting happily lost in the constant changes of his rhythm and the drastic contrasts of his dynamics.

In these two works and in so many others, Mr. Taylor's is the art of drastic contrasts: of sun and shade, of heroes and insects, of rush and reflectiveness.

The key lies not in technique — City Ballet's dancers all move with a speed that few dancers elsewhere possess — but with the erosion of the more high-definition aspects of Balanchine style (where the weight is placed; how the dancer arrives just ahead of the beat; the drastic contrasts between closed and open, up and down, straight and angled).

The graphical results depict the drastic contrasts observed, related to the distortion experienced by the information contained in the O D trip matrix of a home-based survey, when using this methodology and the one proposed here.

"I like the drastic contrast between isolated cultures and the frenzy of New York," she told me.

He had built his technique out of the drastic contrast between tightly closed positions and stretched open ones; now this became softened, blurred.

The platinum blonde hair is a drastic contrast to her naturally dark brunette look, but the star has decided to stick with her dark eyebrows.

The white Land Cruisers, the satellite dishes beaming e-mail messages skyward, the banks of computers inside all the U.N. compounds, offer a drastic contrast with Afghan government offices, where groups of men sit around drinking tea, without a computer in sight.

Ravel's famous score sets up a drastic contrast between chugging, recycling, accumulating orchestral pattern and legato solo-voice melody (with different instruments succeeding one another), and Rioult is at his most virtuosic in the ways he matches this with movement.