counterpoint

Having lived long in an unusual place, Ruth provides a calm counterpoint to the frantic Tom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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

For mains, the grilled rainbow trout with Carolina Gold rice and espelette-citrus beurre blanc was beautifully balanced, while the butternut squash agnolotti with Madeira foam and ricotta offered a rich, comforting counterpoint.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 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

You may also have heard some Bach fugues or inventions; there are no better examples of counterpoint than these.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

In revisiting his cherished alien subgenre for the fourth time with “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg returns to where his career started, scraping away the classic marks of extraterrestrial intrigue and replacing them with human counterpoints.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Mr. Wiggins would wrap all manner of counterpoints around it, then burst out in a solo that could be aggressive or restrained, tight or relaxed.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2024

There are some counterpoints, but we should not get into them because, frankly, this is one of the most annoying legal arguments I have covered in my entire life.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 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

The hits Bulletproof and In for the Kill are still arrestingly tinny, counterpointed tonight by the rumble of fans singing along, while the new material contains the kernel of something juicier.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2013

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011

He went to the piano, began playing the melancholy leading motif and the two subsidiary themes, counterpointed them, ran into lofty crescendos, introduced variations, modulated and sang at the same time.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

The counterpointing of quasi-rabbinical disputation with camp-tinged sarcasm remains one of the central literary achievements of “Angels in America.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

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

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 Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)