Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrast to the "screaming, wildly partisan Wisconsin crowd," your reporter sounds like a screaming, wildly partisan Iowa grad...
...wonder, try to touch Miss Young for a taxi fare? . . . If she is aware of the achievements of our nation in industrial output . . . she must surely realize that a tired people . . . could scarcely perform such feats." The Daily Mirror was avuncular: "Miss Young . . . has a kind heart. . . . The contrast between Hollywood opulence and our own modest state may have made the film star ultrasensitive...
...tradition condemns a reviewer to be. If you just listened, you would hear a great deal of very brilliant, very exciting climaxes. You would hear great quantities of brasses playing louder than you had thought possible. You would hear a number of light, charming folk-tunes serving as a contrast to the assorted volume zeniths. And after one hour and fifteen minutes of this sort of thing, you would be likely to feel as exhausted as Leonard Bernstein obviously felt, and as enthusiastic about his conducting as was the audience. Bernstein looks like the music sounds. He cajoles, he dances...
...track meet, and boat race between the two colleges. Moreover, it contains photographs of every team with a few exceptions, which, so far as is known, were never photographed. A feature of the volume is the fact the all reports and figures have involved the most careful research in contrast to ordinary records, even contemporary ones, which were often incomplete and erroneous...
Dress as You Please. Rugby's 620 boys nowadays come mainly from upper-class professional and mercantile families (the peerage prefers Eton and Harrow.). In contrast to the formal Eton attire and classic Eton curriculum, Rugbeians may dress in tweeds, flannels or what they please, take their pick of vocational (woodworking, shorthand) as well as traditional studies...