Word: counterpoint
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...Topped with mint leaves and soaked with rum, this cupcake will leave any taster lovedrunk for the childishly adult snack.At the opposite end of the spectrum is the classically sweet cinnamon chai Pecan Sticky, which still offers a wonderfully complex eating experience. A more mature chai flavor provides a counterpoint to the childishly tactile delight of dipping one’s tongue into the sugary syrup that tops the cupcake. One bite of the simple-yet-refined chocolate and vanilla cupcakes will quickly send the eater back to the days of classroom birthday parties.But Kickass Cupcakes doesn?...
...Horst, Shields in particular maintains a witty, sarcastic outlook on the dire situation. His quips—the only moments of comedy in the second act—provide an effective counterpoint to the more lighthearted humor of the play’s beginning...
...fact, that appears to be the case. A new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint to a life known mostly through its works. The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever - or, as the book's compiler and editor, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk...
...archetype, and even a few serious points to make about the adolescent pressure to conform, the glamour of the outcast, and the conflict between authenticity and "cool." Even the old Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey songs have more wit and resonance than I recall - like the simple girl-boy counterpoint in "Summer Love...
Here's how Miliband says he plans to do so as Foreign Secretary: by resisting the temptation to be reactive and formulate policy in counterpoint to Washington (or any other international player), instead emulating the strategy of Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal, the London soccer club he supports. "There are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's on the other team, and there are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's in their team," says Miliband. "It's that latter strategy [Wenger] uses. Focus on your own strategy...