Sentence examples for extraordinary contrast from inspiring English sources

The patience of the Shiites today is in extraordinary contrast to Iraq's recent past.

Berbatov's start to this season has provided an extraordinary contrast to the last.

The coverage of the late Jane Tomlinson's sporting achievements while living with metastatic disease were an extraordinary contrast to this press-driven portrayal of us as victims.

A carriage one day, the dock at the Old Bailey the next: it is an extraordinary contrast, even by Fallon's standards.

It was an extraordinary contrast between this tough and successful woman wearing a suit and high heels, beautifully presented, but that seemed to be armour for her.

The extraordinary contrast with some fragmentary revetment tiles from 14th-century Samarkand is explained by their recent history — these had entered Britain in the 1950s.

The apparent homogeneity of the place the shared national experience of strip malls, flags, ham patriotism and bad television is, after all, balanced by extraordinary contrasts.

By providing different angles of insight from those available in the Pushkin art museum or at the Bolshoi Theater, they offer useful lenses for examining Russia's extraordinary contrasts and recent past.

The result is a city of extraordinary contrasts, of glass and steel skyscrapers and fetid shantytowns, of internationally recognized universities and widespread illiteracy, of glittering abundance and desperate poverty.

BEAUFORT, S.C. — It was a day of extraordinary contrasts for Newt Gingrich, who welcomed the endorsement of Rick Perry, and hoped to use it to unite conservatives and add to his momentum in the polls, while playing down how "values voters" might respond to a former wife's claim that he had asked for an "open marriage".

The sequence offers an extraordinary matched contrast of scale, putting the close-up of Franck's ejaculation at the same level as that of the entire lake and the killing that takes place there.