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As you enter the 15-acre site, two hours north of the capital, Dhaka, the first thing that hits you is the sense of calm – in fierce contrast to the rest of Bangladesh, which is bewilderingly chaotic.
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The beginning of the story, which is raw and fierce, contrasts with its upbeat and somewhat neat conclusion.
People used to think that the heavily modelled surface of his paintings, their fierce contrasts of colour, and their coiling, violently rhythmical drawing, were in themselves indices of neurosis, perhaps of outright insanity.
Their approach, characterised by fierce dynamic contrasts , jagged phrasing and explosive fortissimos, suits Messiaen's highly coloured extremes of rapture and religious awe far more convincingly than it does Debussy's much more svelte textures, in which van Raat and Austbo seem to mistake capriciousness for emotional turmoil.
Fierce enemies' contrasting fortunes *Southampton high points: 1976 FA Cup victory A momentous triumph for Southampton over Manchester United, with a goal from Bobby Stokes, while... Portsmouth were relegated to the old Third Division in 1976, experiencing severe financial concerns which threatened their existence, and eventually ended up in the Fourth Division.
By contrast, fierce efforts by Mr. Santorum to carry the popular vote in Ohio, even if successful, could win him just a few more delegates than Mr. Romney because they are allocated proportionally in that state.
But for the time being, it makes for fierce and quite compelling contrast with the last prime minister.
Consider, in contrast , the fierce internal debate that raged among American leftists during the cold war over whether the crusade for social justice could be separated from Communism.
Local competition proved so fierce and nimble, in contrast to eBay's managers, that the company was forced to beat a humiliating retreat.The local leading the charge was Jack Ma, a school teacher who founded Alibaba at his apartment in Hangzhou, a city near Shanghai, in 1999.
Executioners and victims face each other abruptly across a narrow space; according to Kenneth Clark, "by a stroke of genius [Goya] has contrasted the fierce repetition of the soldiers' attitudes and the steely line of their rifles, with the crumbling irregularity of their target".
(The easiest way to distinguish crows from rooks at a distance is to count their numbers: a crow "passes its life as one of a pair isolated from neighbours by a fierce territoriality... Rooks, by contrast , live, feed, sleep, fly, display, roost, fall sick and die in the presence of their own kind". Hence the old East Anglian adage "When tha's a rook, tha's a crow; and when tha's crows, tha's rooks").
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The phrase "fierce contrast " primarily functions as a descriptive element, adding emphasis to the degree of difference between two or more entities. As Ludwig AI explains, it is correct and usable in written English. The example sentence in Ludwig highlights this function by setting a scene with "fierce contrast ".
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