Sentence examples for startling contrast between from inspiring English sources

FOR more than a year, economists have been perplexed by the startling contrast between the nation's economic growth and its weak pace of job creation.

The scene is framed by a traditional gilded frame, and it creates a startling contrast between the old and the new.

The present's continual erasure of the past is poignantly illustrated, as is the rather startling contrast between the museum's modest beginnings with its current megacorporate dominance of the block.

And in this strange way – this startling contrast between the suicide of an unknown woman fallen from grace, and the publication of a grand book about great things – Tolstoy seems to be pointing to the essential absurdity of books.

Those who meet Fury often talk about his sudden tenderness, the startling contrast between a boxer's bombast and some genuinely open and frank dark-night-of-the-soul stuff.

Perhaps Stephen Michael Shearer and Ruth Barton were both drawn by the startling contrast between her eerie on-screen stillness and a life full of drama and agitation to the point of incoherence.

Observing these startling contrasts between wealth and poverty, Ilyich would mutter in English through clenched teeth: 'Two nations!'" John Seabrook Lyme Regis.

The wild sex comedy of Portnoy's Complaint is counterpoised with some of the most heartfelt and convincing portrayals of childhood and youth in modern literature: it is these startling contrasts between deep nostalgic emotion and the urge to rebel that make the book so explosively funny and rewarding.

Among this novel's many wonders are Mr. Rash's fine ear for idiomatic, laconic talk and the startling contrast he creates between Serena and her new neighbors.

The delicacy of Dennis's emotions make a startling contrast with his astonishing, mountainous body, as does the disparity between his oppressive surroundings and his quiet, stubborn insistence on finding a way to transcend that world through his body and then his heart.

Could there be a more startling contrast?