Sentence examples for formal contrasts from inspiring English sources

Together the objects vivify formal contrasts like rough-smooth, open-closed, compressed-attenuated.

Back in Paris, his head-on image of the Imperial Library at the Louvre reduces the Ancien Régime to a series of mesmerizing formal contrasts: smooth and textured, round and flat, shadowed and light, horizontal and vertical.

Technically, these characteristics often result from a static use of harmony, ambiguous tonality, a lack of sharp formal contrasts and of onward rhythmic drive, and a blurring of the distinction between melody and accompaniment.

As an initial introduction of the emotion lexicon in Mandarin, some preliminary accounts are given here with reference to the formal contrasts in English mentioned in Section 1.

A formal contrast between large-scale and minute movement runs alongside that of broad comedy and subtle inside jokes.

What we find in all these cases is just a formal contrast, an echo of further differences, which we can appreciate more deeply only by probing the poem further.

The mid-Atlantic managerialism of James Murdoch's formal submissions contrasts sharply with the testier figure his internal communications reveal.

Formal tests contrasting the coefficients for Late Exiles, Mariels, and New Cubans against one another (see Table 3) show, however, that each successive cohort does not necessarily remit more than its predecessor.

Monday's formal ceremony contrasted with Obama's lower key arrival on Air Force One in Havana on Sunday.

Colonel Walker, a tall, forty-eight-year-old man, has a serious, slightly formal air that contrasts with the generally easygoing manner of most of his staff officers, who respectfully refer to him as the Old Man.

Each of the show's six galleries functions almost as a separate, if not fully developed, exhibition unto itself, with its own curatorial witticisms and its own emotional and formal tensions and contrasts.