counterpoint
Example Sentences
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Mascarpone frosting, lightly scented with cardamom and lemon, crowns the whole, airy yet substantial, a gentle counterpoint to the cake’s density.
From Salon
The Modern Jazz Quartet remade “Summertime” as elegant chamber music, weaving piano and vibraphone in transparent counterpoint.
Fast forward to the film’s final frame and you’ll find the scene’s apt symbolic counterpoint.
They offer a kind of rest, a reassurance in counterpoint to everything else flowing through our phones.
The counterpoint is there could times it would be more advantageous to take the same points as the opposition - even if that's zero - rather take a risk and be three worse off.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
