Words similar to counterpoint
- countering
- counterintelligence
- counterintuitive
- countermeasures
- counteroffensive
- counterpart
- counterparts
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- counterparts--mainly
- counterparts--on
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- counterpressures
- counterproductive
- counterproliferation
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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:
The findings provide a counterpoint to reports of crime decline based on comparisons between contemporary rates and those of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when "unusually high levels of violence" prevailed.
In one place he shows how the rhetorical shape of a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , with its paired images and a ribbing of parallel verbs, finds a visual counterpoint in works of landscape design and even dance notation.
Scottsburg, Ind., Point-Counterpoint
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.
And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.
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