counterpose

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Madhuri Shekar’s 2014 play weighs and counterposes those two ideas of love while spooning out a tale of family, tradition, generational culture clash and food.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

Lust counterposes the children’s genteel hiking trips and war games with the atrocities Karnau dispassionately documents, drawing both narrators’ segments to emphasize visual details over their context.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

The split that some see emerging counterposes booming coasts against a problem-plagued heartland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making of a king.

From Time Magazine Archive