Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
...Hilton ends us definitely in love, but with no nupital climax. Even the new maid has a been whom she meets when she takes the bulldog out. When we dig below this surface disturbance of affairs and young loves we find Dodle Smith's deeper theme to be a contrast of love in its weaker and stronger manifestations...
Wriston likes to point out by way of contrast that Lawrence has a larger investment in athletic equipment per student than any other Midwestern college...
...reading public will welcome this new and inexpensive edition of Henry Adams's study of medievalism, the earlier and companion-volume to his "Education of Henry Adams." In the two works the great historian-artist-philosopher set out to contrast, the unity of the middle ages with the individualism of the present day. Neither was written for general consumption but rather as an intellectual exercise for the author's peculiar benefit. They are thus full of ripe personal wisdom and illumined by the brilliant yet wary genius of the man Adams...
...about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy towards India as a member of the Commonwealth. . . . They involve nothing less than discarding old ideas of Imperialism for new ideas of Partnership and Co-operation...