Word: counterpoint
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...that interests me: trying to be a good mother while at the same time dealing with the dead guy sitting at the kitchen table." The contrast plays out in Allison's gently sparring relationship with her husband Joe (Jake Weber), an engineer. As a scientist, he offers a skeptical counterpoint to her intuitions; as a husband, he deals with such problems as how to throw a surprise party for a wife who can read minds. Their marriage is intellectual, head butting and loving--part Mulder and Scully, part David and Maddie, part Darren and Samantha...
...power of Flaubert's original novel comes from the author's almost clinically objectivist approach, the humor of "Gemma" springs from Simmonds' dead-on observation. Thanks to the use of Gemma's diaries as part of the narrative, "Gemma Bovery" often feels like a caustic and richly deserved counterpoint to the irritating Bridget Jones franchise. Imagine Bridget on amphetamines and you have a fair idea of Gemma Bovery. The characterizations of Gemma as a rudderless yuppie, Charlie as the befuddled schlub, various French and English twits and even Joubert, the largely sympathetic baker/narrator are all razor sharp satires that always...
...effort from many undergraduates. A friend of mine recently provided me with an example. She was assigned her first paper for a class, and was determined to do well on it. She spent a week outlining, drafting, rewriting—making sure she had covered every point and counterpoint, every nuance in her paper. The result of this incredible effort was a B+. When the next paper was assigned, she decided that such exertion was futile, wrote the paper in six hours the night before...
...Streets. Mike Skinner dropped what was probably the only successful second album this year, and did it with incredible panache. A narrative chronicling a day in Skinner’s life after he loses the titular thousand pounds, the album follows emotional peaks and valleys, including the counterpoint of the jubilant “Could Well Be In” and the wrenching British hit “Dry Your Eyes...
...nature of an institution so I can make a proper diagnosis," he says. Taniguchi then crafted a proposal that offered both an expansion and a continuation of the museum's identity: the fundamentally conservative worldwide arbiter of serious, modern fine arts. In doing so, he created a radically understated counterpoint to the increasingly hyperbolic, maximalist trends in museum architecture?a movement exemplified by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao?where a stunning building grabs at least as much attention as the art it houses...