The phrase "refreshing contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an interesting or exciting contrast or comparison between two different things, such as ideas, events, circumstances, images, etc. For example: "The refreshing contrast between the vibrant green palm leaves and the pink blossoms was breathtaking to see."
Petrovitch, with his crude ways, is a refreshing contrast.
To some officials, Blackmun struck a refreshing contrast to the other candidates.
But given the overwhelmingly negative coverage that the Orbán government has received in most of the foreign media, Fischer's counterblast offers a refreshing contrast.
In that respect he constitutes a refreshing contrast to the "evil genius" of Romanticism, Richard Wagner, with whose aesthetic standpoint he otherwise had much in common.
His light, airy Artek pavilion, with Bambu furniture on one side and endearingly aged birch Aalto chairs on the other, struck a refreshing contrast to the consumerist frenzy of the Milan fair.
The work is inevitably uneven but the anthology excites partly because (in refreshing contrast to much of what one reads in English) so many of these poems needed to be written.
When the film opened in New York in 2002, A.O. Scott, writing in The New York Times, called it "subtle, poignant" and a "refreshing contrast" to Hollywood melodramas about mental disability.
But the Chinese are curious about the young president, and in some cases, they clearly find him a refreshing contrast to their own retirement-age, shoe-black-haired leadership.
She is seen as a refreshing contrast to the "old pro" Mr Rau, aged 68, a former candidate for the chancellorship and for 20 years a state premier.A good launching pad for another shot at the presidency in five years?
Mr. Mamet has said he is now a big fan of right-wing talk radio, which he called a refreshing contrast to NPR. "Reckless Endangerment" by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner debuts at No. 7.
At the time, Mr Zuma's supporters saw his charismatic popular touch as a refreshing contrast to Thabo Mbeki, who was seen as a rather aloof president.
