With the U.S. general election being the direst struggle between these forces, the choice could not be a starker contest between populism and pluralism embodied respectively by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The Democratic primary race presents a stark contrast to the Republican contest.
All the same, the faces of the two candidates, and what they plan to do for America, have got a little bit clearer and should become even starker at their contest in North Carolina next week.Begin with the awkward question of who won.
In stark contrast, Friday's match was a real contest for half an hour as France played with invention, skill and impressive discipline in defence and attack.
This stands in stark contrast to the robust overbidding observed in experimental contests with deterministic group size.
The immersive, leisurely rhythms of the series are a stark contrast from the artificial situations (lab-rat housemates, gladiatorial contests) that dominate today's reality programs.
To make the contest even starker, the SD1000 is a digital camera, fizzing with megapixels, whereas the Leica still stores images on that frail, combustible material known as film.
This is in stark contrast to Congress, which (as The Intercept's Dan Froomkin has documented), seems to be in a contest over who can make the most ridiculously hyperbolic statement about Isis.
This game was less of a contest than a stark contrast -- of a team looking to June and another team squinting into a much more distant future.
But in her address to supporters there Thursday morning, she was clearly anticipating the general election fight, presenting the contest as a stark choice not between isolationism and interventionism, or other competing schools of international relations thought, but between her own hard-earned competence and Trump's rank amateurism.
