Word: jarringly
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...subjects of this colorful collection of canvases. The titles of many paintings shown indicate the color contrasts in the subjects. Among the portraits are "Girl With Red Hat", and "The Green Turban". Two studies in still life contrast a decorated coffee cup with a blue bowl and a yellow jar...
...beautiful princess holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive...
...Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels...
...covers came loose and revealed standing upright, inside each jar a small sarcophagus, the elaborate golden miniature of the great gold case that held the king's mummy. The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested a great Chinese nest of boxes, one cunningly held within the other...
...echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition in the whiteness of the jar beneath him. In short the arrangement is as winning as the selection of objects is remarkable...