"surprising contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to compare two things that create a surprising difference between them. For example, "The wealthy country's high rate of homelessness was a surprising contrast to its GDP."
The island is a surprising contrast.
Her gentle watercolours make a surprising contrast with her deeds of arson and self-starvation.
Such frivolity was a surprising contrast with his flair for money and pride in the fortune he had built.
In surprising contrast, only 19 percent of Tea Party supporters said they were looking for a "true conservative".
No beef Stroganoff, no "but" — as if there were a surprising contrast between "world's best mom" and "brilliant rocket scientist" — and no "also".
Leo Strauss (never to be confused with our plague of his disciples' disciples) implicitly manifested a distaste for Spinoza, in surprising contrast to his high regard for Machiavelli.
But then Karlovic has long been a man of surprising contrasts.
He was Mr. Kotik's confederate in his double-conductor pieces, and alone led his "Tracking Pierrot," a sextet for the ensemble of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" plus percussion, bristling with surprising contrasts.
The 60's-influenced cyberbiological abstract mural by John Opella and Roy Steves on the fourth-floor landing and the additional walls painted in faux bronze are also surprising contrasts to the traditional space.
This Eastern Canadian Province of surprising contrasts is a perfect blend of French and British cultures - and now the Independent is offering one lucky reader a pair of tickets to see for themselves.
This paper explores a set of surprising contrasts between two major classes of adjectives in Tagalog.
