Sentence examples for telling contrast from inspiring English sources

That's a telling contrast in priorities.

There is a telling contrast between China's handling of a natural disaster and Burma's.

In telling contrast, Harriet Harman could not bring herself to welcome it.

The two operas provide a telling contrast, and both offer significant musical rewards.

But the clarity of his style on the chessboard makes for a telling contrast with his life away from it.

All this was in telling contrast with the last time a prominent politician entertained such an idea.

Other cases offer telling contrasts.

Great Verdi singing is an art of transition, arising not from the immaculate execution of this or that aria but from an accretion of telling contrasts.

Nonsensical by nature, Surrealist art benefits from a contextual setting that is lacking here, although jumbling everything together often provides telling contrasts between prime examples and pale imitations.

The races offer insights into the city's diasporas, plus telling contrasts between the politics of host and visitors.Right-wing parties are typically keenest on including expat votes, perhaps presuming that migration is often motivated by tax grievances.

Through an array of interpretive choices fine gradations of dynamics; pungent diction; telling contrasts of ethereal and earthy timbres; tempos that are more lusty than languid; a way of propelling a phrase toward a goal the music takes on narrative momentum, its moods dovetailing with the theme of the text.