Words similar to counterpoint
- countering
- counterintelligence
- counterintuitive
- countermeasures
- counteroffensive
- counterpart
- counterparts
- counterparts--but
- counterparts--mainly
- counterparts--on
- counterpoint
- counterpressures
- counterproductive
- counterproliferation
- counterpropaganda
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- counterrevolutionary
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Example sentences for: counterpoint
How can you use “counterpoint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Counterpoint, Frank?
When 19 th -century composers wanted to be solemn, they invoked the Baroque: Thick counterpoint and a good old passacaglia--variations over a repeating bass--never failed to sound lofty.
The books are Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, by the University of Maryland's Ira Berlin; Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry, by William and Mary's Philip D. Morgan; and The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity , by Boston University's Jill Lepore.
The autobiographical segments of this book detail that, throughout his career, he has been interested in understanding how the brain works, using his substantial knowledge and intuition about the architecture and design of conventional computers as a counterpoint.
From that angle, the starkest counterpoint imaginable to Con Air is Ulee's Gold , which begins with a leisurely scene of Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda), a traumatized Vietnam veteran, aside a swamp, tending impassively to his tupelo honeybees.
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