With the help of Joyce Castle, the mezzo-soprano for whom he wrote this song cycle, "The Hawthorn Tree," he eventually selected seven poems of contrasting character by American and English poets.
It consists of several short sections of contrasting character or mood, each ending in a full close, or cadence, and its text is often concerned with eating and drinking.
Indicative of the contrasting characters of the two is that, while Alistair has not seen the predictor, Jonny has played with it for hours.
I have never felt so strongly the presence of two contrasting characters as when I interviewed Harris.
The question of whether it took more courage to race on, as did Hunt, who consequently won the title by finishing the race in third, or to pull out in face of the dangerous conditions, is not only a beautifully unstated dramatic moment in the new film "Rush," about the drivers' legendary rivalry, it is also at the crux of their contrasting characters.
The streaks of bacon and slivers of apple are contrasting characters, but couple well.
D: The contrasting characters of the two women make for narrative drama.
The plot, played out by wildly contrasting characters, is one of national prosperity, and the people of Newton County have a big stake in its outcome.
The plot concentrates on the first two of Henry's six wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, whose conflicts, contrasting characters and downward-spiraling fortunes could not be more poignantly etched.
