Word: contrastingly
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...Shorty thrives with its witty commentary on the contrast between the world of the gangsters and the Hollywood men who think themselves hip, a self-image that melts after contact with Chili’s genuine cool. But when everyone is a gangster there is no such contrast. The characters’ behavior quickly becomes an absurd oversimplification of music business stereotypes: women are sensual, blacks are gang members regardless of their lifestyles, Italians are smooth mobsters, Jews are only interested in money, and gay men are overtly feminine...
...plan to lift its embargo on supplying defense technology to China, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Bush wants the embargo to stay, lest European goods one day be used against U.S. forces, who are pledged to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China. Chirac, by contrast, said that the embargo "is no longer justified and has to be lifted...
...stark contrast to the last time the two teams matched up—when the Bulldogs scored the first 12 points of the game—Harvard looked sharp right from the opening...
...chiefs.” Kikuyu resentment of British settlers escalated into Mau Mau, a rebellion whose adherents hacked to death about 2,000 European settlers and Kikuyu “loyalists.” While these deaths have been well-documented, Elkins’ work focuses, by contrast, on the many Kikuyu who were detained and killed by British forces in retaliation for the Mau Mau insurgency...
...insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates, not as high as the death toll inflicted by the settlers, the insurgents matched the settlers in the realm of brutality. By contrast, Nazi claims of brutal acts committed by Jews against the Germans were unfounded, and untrue...