Word: contrastes
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...what has piqued some library-goers since 1919, irrespective of their faith, was Sargent’s symbolism of the synagogue as a blind old woman—a reference to the medieval convention signifying the failure of Judaism to see the truth of Christianity. By contrast, Sargent portrayed the church as wide-eyed and demurely poised atop a throne-like seat...
...contrast doesn't just make Williams' songs more accessible, it also allows her to communicate a more complete range of emotions. Those Three Days is about an apparently budding long-term romance that turned out to be just a fling. "I was pretty pissed off when I wrote it," says Williams, and her anger comes through in such screeching lines as "You found a hole and in you came" and "Scorpions crawl across my screen." Then the music rises and segues into a chorus--"Did you only love me for those three days?"--that wouldn't be out of place...
...advance of the epidemic in Hong Kong stands in marked contrast to the situation in Singapore, another Asian transportation hub hit by SARS last month. Health authorities in the Lion City have all but declared victory over the disease. Although six people have died?the latest fatality coming April 4?just 26 Singaporeans of 101 who were infected remain in the hospital and the rate of new cases has fallen to about three a day. "It will take at least another week or two to be certain that the epidemic is close to ending," says Dr. Osman David Mansoor...
...contrast in the voice parts helped set an appropriate tone. The mourned lover’s consistently self-deprecating and somewhat whiny character—frequently interrupted by his beloved’s high, seemingly innocent hue and by a combination of scornful male and female voices—shaped a balanced tradeoff to unstable music...
Cooman’s music is tonally striking and rhythmically driven in a way that lends the opera surprising immediacy. Tonal contrast and dynamic changes fit the libretto perfectly, and still manages to avoidspredictability entirely. The listener is forced to move along with the opera’s fluctuations and pangs of emotion, such that at the end the audience aches for some peaceful resolution...