Sentence examples for tonal contrast from inspiring English sources

Still, the tonal contrast works, for Rakes is a peacock in a farmyard.

Where curbing has been removed, the use of tonal contrast provides an alternative.

The dance is meticulously beautiful, but doesn't quite capture the tonal contrast between reality and fantasy.

In reality it is contrast of key, or tonal contrast, that characterizes the sonata-form exposition.

The second is a work of eloquent geometry and delicate tonal contrast, white on white, reminiscent of Paul Strand.

Far from being whimsical or tricksy, this roots the action in a plausible world of escalating terror to which England provides a tonal contrast.

Rather, they used tonal contrasts to evoke mood and feeling, rather like a piece by Chopin.

But, while I still think there is something in that, the play thrives on its tonal contrasts.

His compositions were generally stark, his combination of cold studio light and precise focus creating dramatic tonal contrasts.

Large simple shapes, bold tonal contrasts, explicit imagery: this picture could speak to us from a hundred yards away.

In "Me and My Parrots" (1941), it combines with sharp tonal contrasts of warm color to convey invisible moistness, as of a summertime, full-body, delicate sweat.