Sentence examples for emphatic contrast from inspiring English sources

That same urge for emphatic contrast came through in "Miroirs," to mixed effect.

In emphatic contrast, Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771) offers an extremist and rarefied version of the sentimental hero, while Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765) playfully initiated the vogue for Gothic fiction.

In externals, the new vintage seems considerably better; the window openings are often much wider, and many of the buildings have recessed balconies or jutting bays that add a third dimension — and the emphatic contrast of sunlight and shadow — whose aesthetic possibilities we had almost forgotten.

The poem makes a vigorous and emphatic contrast between "your ways and thoughts" and God's "ways and thoughts".

Leech developed in his caricatures a comfortable, warmly humorous middle-class urbanity, in which character is underlined by emphatic contrasts of stock types.

Looking at Cézanne's big still life from 1905 borrowed from the National Gallery of Art, you can see how 20th-century artists would have been excited by the powerful simplifications of rumpled fabric, ceramic ware and fruit; the emphatic contrasts of light and shadow; the smoldering color; and, in general, an almost kinetic immediacy that early Modernists called plasticity.

Provided the style of the dress can handle the addition of a belt, it can provide a very emphatic contrasting feature on your little black dress.

Color contrasts are emphatic.

The octave-defying bass playing of Chris Wolstenholme and the sparse drumming of Dom Howard contrast against the emphatic build and chorus wig-out.

Her poor performance against Sanders in West Virginia stands in stark contrast to her emphatic win over Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary in the state, when race was seen as a key factor for some voters.

The Third Concerto offered an appealing contrast between the muscular, emphatic playing of the violinist Kyoko Takezawa and the more lyrical approach of Yoon Kwon, a young violinist from the organization's Chamber Music Society Two program.