Sentence examples for jarring against from inspiring English sources

Its residents' colorful and often stylish clothes will look jarring against this new-old backdrop.

They're a little less funny tonight, stumbling through their routine, all but jarring against it each other.

At the other end of China, in Lhasa, the tyranny of the square has been imposed with double force, jarring against both history and architecture.

Ms. Tempelsman's dialogue tends to be indirect and occasionally is marred by anachronistic phrases such as "don't get me wrong" and "once she goes public" that are jarring against the authenticity of the excerpts taken from Eliot's works.

Although, like "The Voyage Out," "Night and Day" remains, in its structure, its scenes and dialogues, a conventional narrative, reading it you get the sense of the modern novel jarring against its romantic antecedent.

It feels like extracts from a work in progress, with the set pieces of Selma's trial and her execution jarring against the profoundly sketchy presentation of the rest of the narrative.

But it jarred against the huge police crackdown on the square a day before the meeting took place.

There was a troubling dissonance on display today, as the aforementioned digital innovations jarred against a disappointing sense of business as usual.

Plenty of Déjà Vu gets aired tonight, but the Britney sung cover of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner and Kylie-featuring Right Here, Right Now apart, it often jars against the sound of Moroder's classic cannon.

Blair tried to lead New Labour in this direction, but his attempts always jarred against his party's ingrained support for the traditional welfare state and its attachment to increasingly old-fashioned ideas of secure employment.

Tracking the careers of several hundred men and women in Britain and North America, most of ordinary background, who preached a message of primitive justice that jarred against the cosmopolitan sensibilities of their audiences, Doomsayers explores how prophetic claims were formulated, challenged, tested, advanced, and abandoned.