Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forget your hatred for the President. Stop crying 'Fascist' every time he makes a move. Stop worrying about Reds in the White House. Because of your reckless hatred the minds of many American men and women are shut against your honest criticism." These words are a refreshing contrast to solemn warnings about the challenge to liberty, passionate defenses of the American system, and anguished cries about alien collectivisms...
...History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...
...careful, sympathetic biography, Katharine Anthony's Louisa May Alcott points the contrast between father and daughter, draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life...
...belong to the sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
...apologies made by these knights come as a thrilling dramatic contrast. They are delivered to a modern British audience in hackneyed modern idiom, with no trace of poetry. One speaker dwells upon their disinterestdness; another, on the constitutional necessity of subordinating Church to State; and a third, the theory that Becket virtually committed suicide while in unsound mind. They are meant to sound superficial, but none of them speaks nonsense, and hence the enigmatical complexity of the play is increased...