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The breakneck pace of the guitar chords is measured and deliberate; the drums are measured, consistent; as usual, the bassline is its own melodic counterpoint.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Feminist dystopian fiction offers another counterpoint: bleak speculative narratives can make systemic problems—including misogyny, violence against women, gender inequality and threats to reproductive rights—more visible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another unappreciated aspect of the SpaceX IPO is that over 10,000 employees bought it, said Baker, which, he noted, is a counterpoint to exhaustive analysis of the share-lockup schedule.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

The Pope's focus is a clear counterpoint to talk elsewhere of a migration "crisis" and an "ideological invasion".

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

The drumming of his hooves was like a counterpoint to the slow song of the wind, endlessly burning past my ears.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Of course, there are counterpoints to the notion that chips can have lasting value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

To say all Hell broke loose after that is an overstatement, but the barrage of counterpoints was piercing.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Strangely, no mention is made of her three younger brothers, who also trained as apprentices to Orazio and who might have served as dramatic counterpoints for the young female artist.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024

Like the desert to the city, the tags are the comforting counterpoints to his plants, changeless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“Tenet” is Nolan’s densely science-fictional take on the James Bond thriller, but essentially it’s about entropy and reverse entropy and a series of jaw-dropping action sequences that take place in that counterpointed slipstream of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2021

This doesn’t always work in a trio setting, where there’s little melody to be counterpointed, but it’s quite powerful in Halvorson’s new octet.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2017

His organ playing, which often counterpointed Blackmore's virtuoso lead guitar, was unique and often copied.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2012

Eventually another woman peels away from the rolling group and counterpointed versions of the earlier material begin.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011

Autograph in A.— 'Standard rhythm opened and counterpointed.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges

Sontag, of course counterpointing, noted that “its most obvious trait is assertiveness of one kind or another.”

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

The television was on, and Tupac’s “Hail Mary” was playing on his phone, a tolling bell eerily counterpointing the opening rap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

The songs are more effective in a gentle, reflective mode — with lovely counterpointing of wistful, individual voices — than when they try to stir or rouse.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2014

Weirdly, it adds something here, counterpointing all the anger and defiance in the lyrics with an affecting frailty.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

As a draughtsman Leech has been admirably placed by Mr. du Maurier, who calls him a perfect ballad-writer as compared with the more scientific counterpointing of Charles Keene.

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann