Sentence examples for in counterpoint to statements from inspiring English sources

Letters home from Guantánamo are read in counterpoint to statements from politicians like Jack Straw Joris Stuyckk), the British foreign secretary, and Donald Rumsfeld Robert Langdon Lloydd), the American Secretary of Defense, who is heard answering reporters with an obscuring, logic-twisting bravado worthy of the short-tempered Duchess in "Alice in Wonderland".

He performs in counterpoint to it.

Biographies of theater people often work best in counterpoint to the lives they examine.

First they sang lines in counterpoint to their own played parts; then, once they stopped playing, they sang in counterpoint to the other voices.

A diagonal of dancers darts in and out in counterpoint to two figures encased in sacks.

In some ways it's almost in counterpoint to the program".

In staccato fashion, they rise, in counterpoint to Mozart's music, at certain points resembling a classical frieze.

Many Fujianese work in restaurants, so their holidays have developed in counterpoint to Chinese restaurant hours.

In the first week of November, the two series of events moved in counterpoint to a showdown.

Around the same time he gave lessons in counterpoint to Schoenberg, who was only three years younger.

In counterpoint to the funeral train, we get a survey of Booth's flight through the Virginia marshes.