"in sharp contrast" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to highlight a stark difference or opposite between two things or ideas. Example: "The peaceful countryside was in sharp contrast to the bustling city, with its honking cars and towering skyscrapers."
The circumstances surrounding McNair's murder were in a sharp contrast to his national image.
And yet in a sharp contrast to 1962, a small group of whites and blacks formed a counterprotest.
In a sharp contrast to the outgoing president, Rouhani avoided issuing inflammatory statements against the west and instead promised improved relations.
In a sharp contrast to Hewlett-Packard, which said on Wednesday that it saw growing weakness in Europe, Dell said revenue increased 11percentt in that region.
But in a sharp contrast to a report by a panel appointed by the secretary, the accounting office investigation largely exonerated Dr. Victor H. Reis, a former assistant secretary of energy who was the principal architect of the stockpile stewardship program.
Compared to the Age-of-Aquarius flora and fauna in the promotional material of the Shiraz-Persepolis Festival of Arts (1967-77), an event charted extensively in Room 2, the development and severity of reactionary post-'79 Iranian poster art flash past the eye in a sharp contrast.
The imposition of the fee, approved by the league's board last year, stands in a sharp contrast to the group's denunciation of and aggressive lobbying against Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed theater ticket tax, which would have added about $5 to $10 to Broadway tickets, depending on their face value.
While he insisted he was "quietly confident" of a majority Coalition government, the prime minister – in a sharp contrast to his election campaign warnings about the dangers of a vote for minor parties – emerged on Sunday afternoon to promise to "work constructively" with the crossbench to deliver a stable government "without division or rancour".
In a sharp contrast to Judge Cabranes's more expansive style, she and Judge Sotomayor found they agreed on a more cautious, scrupulously narrow, just-the-facts approach to judicial work, disdaining what they called "results-oriented judges" — meaning judges, including conservatives, who used elaborate ideas about democracy or constitutional interpretation to reach the ends they happened to favor.
