Word: contrastingly
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...Miles Rind’s Onegin falls far short. In contrast to Lynch, his sound is completely horizontal, making his changes of register barely noticeable. Moreover, his acting skills are unsuited to his role; he switches between only two facial expressions: a blank look of nonchalance and a mean scowl. The role is more complex than Rind represents and the lead vocal part requires considerably more tonal and dynamic variation...
...dance world, working with—and celebrated by—Yo-Yo Ma ’76, George Ballanchine and Mikhail Baryshnikov. While admitting the necessity of defining dance as an art in and of itself, he defended his reputation as a dancer wholeheartedly devoted to music, by contrast to other modern choreographers who have rejected the “tyranny of music...
...people” also stands in contrast to the elite represented by intellectuals like Thuy, whose education took him to film school in Moscow in the 1970s...
...billion in exchange for access to military bases to use in a war against Iraq. This amount is roughly equal to $265 per American family, but, apparently, we are glad to spend it because it will help ensure millions of barrels of cheap Middle Eastern oil. In great contrast, the American government spends only $10 billion, or about $50 per family, on developmental aid for poor countries that aren’t lucky enough to sit on gallons of crude...
Meyerson cited Harvard faculty like Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop, a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, as a contrast to Yale administrators, who he said have “zero expertise in labor relations...