Sentence examples for stern contrast between from inspiring English sources

In "The Places in Between," Stewart set up a stern contrast between the lifelong commitment shown by British colonial civil servants and their flighty modern equivalents.

There's a stark contrast between Barbara Bush and Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick and Lynn Cheney.

The chapel was described by the travel writer Jan Morris as "one of the sweetest little sanctuaries in Oxford"; "very simple, almost stern" with a contrast between the black and white pews and the "rich colour" of the stained glass.

The geometric contrast between the stern parallel of the metal lines and the feeble hopelessness of the trolley track are a metaphor of a man caught up, and then wrecked, by industrial society.

Still, the contrast between them is stark.

The contrast between the United States and Europe is stark.

The contrast between North and South is stark.

The contrast between the two is stark.

(The theme also emerges in the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story," with its contrast between Robinson's relaxed way with fellow Negro-League players and his stern self-control in the National League).

Later, Romanesque artists produced a more terrible vision of the Last Judgment: Christ is shown as a stern judge, sometimes carrying a sword and surrounded by the four mystical beasts eagle, lion, ox, and winged man of the apocalypse; the contrast between paradise and hell is between the awesome and the ferocious.

The contrast between Mackinac Island and Detroit is simply boggling.