Word: contrastingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirens in Boston. The National League race, too, had been a thriller for most of the summer, but by contrast it was winding up as quietly as a Quaker meeting. For a fortnight it had been clear (to all but bitter-enders) that Billy Southworth's Boston Braves were too far ahead to be caught. This week the Braves clinched it -their first pennant since 1914. Boston's Acting Mayor Tom Hannon called for the blowing of sirens all over town...
...contrast with U.N. was startling. In two years, Lake Success has had no noticeable loss of headphones; after the first day of the World Council, 30 sets were missing - 25 of which were later returned. younger churches of Asia and Africa than did earlier ecumenical conferences. Handsome, flashing-eyed Sarah Chakko of India expressed their attitude: "There . . . seems to us to be an undue fear of Communism, especially among the delegates from the U.S. In Asia the people we must reach are people who are asking them selves frankly, 'Is Communism the right...
...contrast with this, the man of good will may feel, such straightforward, old-fashioned competitive concepts as the Teutonic "frightfulness" (Schrecklichkeit), or the discredited American flying wedge seem as mild as mother's milk...
...world has been through a period of hysterical excitements and stark realism," announced Musicomedy Dancer Ray Bolger, as quoted by rococo Litterateur Lucius Beebe. "Now it seems only natural that people should want a contrast to modernity and hysteria, and the placidity and ordered mannerisms of Victorianism supply that contrast...
Graham Greene has indulged this nostalgia and stayed at this level in four thrillers, all of which have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence...