How To Use Counterpoint In A Sentence

Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline. Archive 2009-06-01
Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
I have used my interviews with parents as a counterpoint to a professional judgement.
The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.

His technical skill guarantees admirable clarity in the midst of complex counterpoints, and there is a delightful sense of well-being about the performances.
Richard and Bolingbroke ultimately represent two types of souls or distinct aspects of the soul that must be amalgamated in a single man, achieving the soul's harmony by counterpoint.
Saracens are an interesting counterpoint too. Times, Sunday Times
The treatments, however, differ startlingly, Flos campi (with its bitonal opening) owing less to traditional counterpoint and more to a vision of simultaneous planes of sound.
They serve as an important contemporary counterpoint to the cases below that are devoted to Africa's long history of agriculture, metallurgy, and ceramic production.
Counterpoint is likely to be most immediately perceptible when the distinct voices use the same material in close proximity.
His interest in counterpoint is shown in a set of 120 canons, which use such techniques as augmentation, diminution, and retrograde motion.
That she is also lonely and unloved, except by her arthritic mother, is a nice ironic counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
The profusion of words on the quilts counterpoints the simple linear sewing on the sheets.
He also contributes an interview with a traditional healer, supplementing and counterpointing Linda Connor's filmed interviews of a couple of decades earlier.
Hunt's laconic expertise provided a perfect counterpoint to Walker's high-octane delivery.
A professional actor who is appalled by the slack behaviour of an indisciplined group of amateurs seemed a good counterpoint for an uptight Christian coming amongst heathens. Playing with fire: The Wicker Man musical
By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
The high octane opening number -- fueled by the multi-media television screens flashing flags, and George Bush (what would we do without Bush-the-punching-bag) playing golf amidst a really effective multipurpose city backdrop -- sets us up for our journey, which includes Iraq, protests, sex, and having babies (counterpointed with shooting up). Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: American Idiot: Does It Speak Across Generations?
The orchestra is split in two, with a third block of players in between, providing counterpoint and overlapping musical colour. Times, Sunday Times
His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
Crudely expressed, corruption was of the political essence and was the practical counterpoint to the constitutional theory of balance.
Now add into it, the principle of composition, in counterpoint, of so-called neighboring key, neighboring-key half-tone change.
Normally his family life, with lecturer wife Paula and two teenage children, is a nice counterpoint to the mayhem and misery his work uncovers.
Jamie Bond and Natasha Oughtred's account of the lyrical second movement, however, is very fine indeed, with her nervy vulnerability perfectly counterpointed by his elegant line and cool, almost abstract, presence. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View
I add fennel to mine, which provides a meaty counterpoint to the velvety potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
These new paintings counterpoint their structure and rich color with an urban grittiness, like an elegant woman in evening wear stepping out onto the macadam of a New York street.
My cod with chorizo is a tried-and-tested combination, with the strong taste of the chorizo providing a pleasing counterpoint to a succulent piece of cod.
Williamson possesses a deep, sardonic baritone that makes for a curious counterpoint to his exuberant indie-pop dancercise routines.
The orchestra is split in two, with a third block of players in between, providing counterpoint and overlapping musical colour. Times, Sunday Times
It is characterized by a greater licence in the use of counterpoint, and by a lavish use of passaggi and acciaccature to express the affetti of this modern music.
Anda's inspiration was evident in Gamba's searching accounts, exploring beneath the musical surface and highlighting beautiful inner counterpoints in all three works.
The familial conflict provides a domestic counterpoint to the war in Europe. The Times Literary Supplement
I preferred to study harmony, counterpoint and composition.
The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
They offer a thought-provoking counterpoint to the antics of our own MPs. Times, Sunday Times
Here, pleasure, humor and serenity predominated, rather than serving as mere counterpoints to the darker interpretations of life generally provided by 20th-century art movements.
Double counterpoint, imitation, fugue, or at least fughetta -- these he returned to later. Haydn
Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection .... GreenCine Daily
Early Elizabethan anthems were modelled on the Latin antiphon or motet, but they cautiously followed the queen's injunction by being largely syllabic, with a minimum of counterpoint.
With the oven-baked vegetable kibbeh, apple slices provide crisp counterpoint to the grainy bulghur wheat.
One of the great triumphs of pop was that it was more about outfits than counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
Poussin's protagonists are actors on a stage; the woman bending down to gather Phocion's ashes becomes a consciousness within the consciousness of the painting, her arched back set in a counterpoint with the upright frontality of temples and the great spreading power of the trees. The New Republic - All Feed
This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.
Bratwurst and weisswurst sizzled smokily on grilles, providing a sensory counterpoint to the oom-pa-pa tunes. Gregory Daurer: Imagine a Great Beer City
Her adorable job would work as a counterpoint to his pragmatic one and she would teach him to loosen up and enjoy life. Times, Sunday Times
Saracens are an interesting counterpoint too. Times, Sunday Times
Actually, there's a lot of symbolism in somewhat uneasy counterpoint with the ultrarealistic chatter. Times, Sunday Times
She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune.
It's the subsequent addition of multi-tracked vocal counterpoint, maracas, and vibes that turns it into a delectable piece of ear candy.
Additional counterpoint is called ‘free’, but such material may be restated in an identical form, as if it were a second countersubject.
With their use of tone rows and dense counterpoint these pieces should dispel any ideas that Ives's music is just about jaunty marches and musical borrowings.
Their mix of flamboyance, lyricism and expert counterpoint suggest a well-practised compositional hand. Times, Sunday Times
It also made a great counterpoint to the shamanic stuff I've been immersed in, as initiations so often feature a ritual death and resurrection.
The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.
She sang solo against the humming of the male voices behind her and against the organ counterpoint.
They've had a big hit with a series called Witch, which is for 10 to 12-year-old girls, so this is going to be the counterpoint to that for boys.
Real memories nicely counterpoint any simplistic views of bygone mores. Times, Sunday Times
There is a delightfully odd, twangy soundtrack, which plays counterpoint to the otherworldly feel of the rest of the film.
In his most recent works, the artist negotiates, afresh, the counterpoint between city and landscape, home and world, that has long exercised him.
A sassy aria from Zandonai's Carmen-esque Conchita led into Fleming's oft-encored "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess, more restrained than I've heard her do in the past, with Höll giving limpid account of Gershwin's shifting counterpoint. Archive 2009-04-01
And composers are increasingly drawn to counterpoint his verbal music with their own. Times, Sunday Times
The Phillies said the signing is a counterpoint to remarks by Scott Rolen questioning the team's commitment to winning. USATODAY.com - National League East
Frankie is revealed early to be a smart-ass to his local priest, only for the audience to find out later how it counterpoints his responsibility as Maggie's friend and true family.
More important, Moravia's novels offer a bracing counterpoint to today's soft-hearted and headed fiction.
Reality Check videos help you separate the misinformation from the facts in short, informative and often humorous point / counterpoint scenarios. OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders
Originally introduced as a potential love interest for both Dan and Nate as well as a one-time Bass boink, the hippy-harpy character has devolved from a borderline interesting counterpoint to all the glamour of her surroundings to a sniveling buttinsky with nothing better to do than meddle for the sole sake of spoiling everyone's fun. Watercooler: Gossip Girl's Vanessa Needs to Go!
On the other hand, the Journal-Constitution also brings us the counterpoint to his lucubrations.
Because the viewer has had a chance to see all of the material already twice, he is prepared to enjoy and decode the complexly overlapping counterpoint of these final sections. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The content of the silent film is a pertinent counterpoint to both the events unfolding in the film's expansive narrative, and its questioning of the boundaries of corporeality.
His role is essential, as he's the counterpoint to the bookish and serious Ernesto, and it would be easy to overplay the oversexed Alberto.
Right from the start, the movie counterpoints the capable, stoic Stride with the rather helpless John Greer, who while, affable, just talks and talks and talks, instead of getting things done.
In Fertility Rites, sampled throat songs play counterpoint games with a marimba; in Hunter's Dream, they are combined with flute samples.
As a counterpoint to the hot, dry look of the sandstone, Charlotte chose cottage-garden flowers including campanulas, catmint, dianthus, peonies, and roses in shades of lavender, pink, blue, and wine red.
They offer a thought-provoking counterpoint to the antics of our own MPs. Times, Sunday Times
I think the tartness is the perfect counterpoint to the sweet topping… but I tend to like tart thingsto begin with. Breakfast apricot crisp | smitten kitchen
I cannot, unfortunately, return him the compliment he paid you at Wilhelmsthal ” "Young man, you have satisfied me"; for, after having heard it at three rehearsals, I found no satisfaction in it either for my ears or my mind: it is the old frippery of counterpoint ” the old unsalted, unpeppered sausage, [Figure: Musical example] etc., rubbish, to the ruin of eye and ear! Letters
The word on him, as this Politico story says, is that he's "a serious wonk," which makes him a counterpoint to John Boehner, "a backslapper who loves golf and socializes with his friends. Is Eric Cantor a policy wonk?
Crudely expressed, corruption was of the political essence and was the practical counterpoint to the constitutional theory of balance.
Lewis did indeed tend to lean toward concepts that were prevalent in classical music and had rarely been translated into jazz terms, like fugal form and baroque counterpoint, and he also made his music seem more formal by naming many of his compositions after European cities—"Milano," "Afternoon in Venice," "A Day in Dubrovnik. The Modern Sounds of Yore
Because polyphony is restricted pop and rock music demonstrates limited harmony and use of counterpoint.
But today they highlight Charles' sheer musical eclecticism, and vitally counterpoint his earlier earthier style.
All of which could be a buzzkill, but as counterpoint I offer my late Auntie Margie, who was deep into her 80s when she once regaled a tableful of my girlfriends with tales of her love life. Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Why Some Men Won't Accept That You're Not That Into Them
It's the spirituality and soul of the blues filtered through barbershop harmonies, but accompanied in counterpoint by dehumanized pulses and drones.
The loudest things we hear are seagulls, so it is a perfect counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
The term polyphony is sometimes used synonomously with counterpoint, and sometimes to distinguish medeival multi-voice music from that of the Renaissance and Baroque. monophonic, or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical chant. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The Don's barely understood emotional meandering is the counterpoise and counterpoint to Kitri's rational love for Basilo.
If she conceives of it as a fugue, she uses techniques of counterpoint and fugal structure to make the piece.
Providing linear counterpoint, simple designs stitched in black thread flow over and around the painted images.
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
The purpose of the Times op-ed section was to allow for the presentation of diverse counterpoints to the paper's editorial columns.
The big band arranger supplies superbly baroque settings for Arlen's music, creating the perfect counterpoint to the classic simplicity of the "Gershwin Songbook."
Lutheran chorales were so often the basis of Bach's counterpoint, and Wagner devised for his Nuremberg mastersingers a counterpoint that was both traditional and contemporary.
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
Incorporated into the existing hang, these provide revealing counterpoints to familiar faces in our national collection.
The counterpoint is that neat gamble; that all the victims have to do is ask if it's a trick.
The tender, juicy asparagus provides a counterpoint to the fried food.
The scene's realism is a nice counterpoint to the more cartoonish, stylized violence of the finale.
This scene ironically counterpoints the opening of the novel where Catherine sees only a ‘confused impression’ of people.
It was a conscious construction, an amalgam of Middle Eastern melismata and rhythms, Renaissance modality, and, oddly enough, Baroque counterpoint.
The process is repeated, this time with horns providing counterpoint to the urgently strummed guitars.
Paris is just a short train journey away, providing the perfect counterpoint to the peace and quiet of Reims.
It appears to be a simple performance but one full of richness and stands as the counterpoint to the work done by James Stewart.
The viola is exactly in counterpoint to the first violin.
The counterpoint becomes increasingly intricate as the set progresses, but Frescobaldi never lets the music devolve into academic dryness.
Hill's words suggested both the form and atmosphere of the work: two chaconnes, containing ‘long passages of meditative counterpoint’, interspersed with three contrasting interludes.
Grant's counterpoint, Colin Firth, is all-out broody repression - he is never better than when he is uptight.
At other times, dozens of them are laid on top of each other, creating not a rational counterpoint but instead the heady glossolalia of nature.
This should be a subtly sexy piece with flowing movement that acts as a counterpoint to the percussive orchestral castanets.
Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
He was invoking the marvelousness of uncoordinated knowledge as a counterpoint to the socialists of his day who argued for the superiority of centralized, state-run, top-down coordination.
As Ross described her various enthusiasms, the conversation of the surrounding diners provided a counterpoint of urban dismay and aspiration.
The second verse features only the guitar and Hysen until the cello comes in once again playing a more legato melody that counterpoints the guitar nicely.
The band is the counterpoint to Jet - that is to say, they are a rip-off crew that (kind of) makes it work.
Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
From an aesthetic point of view this loss is not too serious, since the imposition of the alternatim form and the stressing of imitative counterpoint have made these compositions rather impersonal. Archive 2009-06-01
Smeared and cross-hatched, the objective correlative here is adroitly drawn out, counterpointed throughout the poem by the woman's querulous responses.
Ned is a meteorologist devoted to science and logic, the counterpoint to his sister and her belief in curses and irrational fate.
These three tunes hit you in perfect counterpoint. The Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful counterpoint to his fantastic solipsism is the appalling verbosity of his manservant, Mash Qasem. The Persian Version
Realism was counterpointed by forms of pluralism that potentially offered a much richer view.
The answer may be only a shy, uncatchable phantom, for, as we've said at the beginning, what makes a counterpoint effective lies in judgment and execution, not theory or mode alone.
However, the decay on real xylophones and marimbas is so long that the counterpoint gets muddied.
His sublime intepretations of Villa-Lobos, Albeniz, and Luiz Gonzaga counterpointed Affonso's wise and clever poetry on a bright sunny day under a white tent on the sweeping green lawn of the estate. Chris McGowan: Brazil's Hidden Magical Music Festival
The twin counterpoint battles of Imphal and Kohima at Burma's gateway to India comprised long marches through dense jungles by both sides.
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
This has an interesting counterpoint - the ascendent political correctness of the right.
These three tunes hit you in perfect counterpoint. The Times Literary Supplement
Figure out how to listen without offering your counterpoint right away. Christianity Today
The pits furnish a bit of counterpoint crudity to Ms. Bontecou's unrelenting elegance: The lumberyard red ends of the pine two-by-sixes are left showing, and a hacksaw blade lies, as if forgotten, on top. Abstract (Semi) and Phantasmagorical
Norburn and Taylor belong to the subtle school: muted but plaintive accompaniment counterpointing a singing voice which is both expressive and intimate; occasionally dramatic but never melodramatic.
The counterpoint of a huge tragedy with a smaller domestic one is a central conceit of the story. Times, Sunday Times
Britten used the 12-note system to provide a classic opera of dramatic tension counterpointed by exquisite melody.
And Britain, which scored its best haul in a century, is a counterpoint to China.
In style, Wert's hymns resemble his other alternatim settings for the basilica; their extreme simplicity, evidently designed to allow the texts to be clearly heard, is reminiscent, in their combination of careful declamation, attention to text and restrained counterpoint, of the hymns and the Preces speciales of Jacobus de Kerle. Archive 2009-06-01
The contrast was heightened when, from about the 11th century onwards, such soloist passages began to be enhanced, on feast days, by the addition of newly composed polyphonic counterpoints.
It provides a nice contemporary counterpoint to the previously posted Christmas Scenes, and Smith's reflections on the whole shebang resonate with me, anyway.
The ironies so mordantly delivered by Michael Hordern, in the film's elegantly phrased voice-over, counterpointed the beauty of Stanley's immaculate staging. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
With our invariably simplistic tendency to summarize any given issue into Good vs. Bad, the courts are held up as the primary counterpoint to the criminal element of society.
Valen's approach was derived from Bach, from whose music he evolved a polyphonic technique of dissonant counterpoint.
Zelenka's music is always very pleasant and one must take particular notice of his exquisite ‘Salve Regina’, a truly exquisite work that is brimful and replete with melodies and fugal counterpoint.
As a kind of spatial equivalent to the disjointed dialogue, Danny's close-up brooding is typically counterpointed in the shot by some unrelated incident or gag in the middle distance.
Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint
Alkan rarely compromises the logic of his counterpoint, and a similar inflexibility was noted in his playing, which avoided the indulgent rubato of many of his contemporaries.
Their performance of Mozart's Jupiter symphony was inevitably coloured by this association, not least because it was Constanze whose penchant for baroque counterpoint partly spurred Mozart's inclination towards fugal writing in his later years. Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bolton – review
Sawyer is adept at counterpointing points of view.
Like Wagner's overture, this movement is a Romantic ode to Classical counterpoint, and one at times seems to hear actual Wagner themes peeking out from behind the curtain.
Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
The wild, syncopated patterns of the surrounding painting become giant frames which counterpoint the stillness of the images.
At some point the children chime in and finally a single soprano voice soars in counterpoint to the great roaring wave of harmony.
We find also a fascination with Baroque counterpoint and modal melodies from Gregorian chant to Appalachian folk tunes.
The style, however, is by no means wholly Italianate: the second movements sometimes marked ‘canzona’ especially show Purcell's gift for old-fashioned counterpoint. Archive 2009-05-01
Coussemaker rendered great service to musical science by bringing to the notice of students the early development and history of harmony and counterpoint, as shown by the treatment of these divisions of music in that section of the "Musica Enchiriadis" in which diaphony is treated. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
On Crumb, Crunch introduces a simple melody counterpointed immediately by a static-like underpinning.
Traditional prosody describes the rhythm of poetry as the meaningful counterpoint of speech pattern against a fixed abstract meter.
He reminds me that the only true measure of perfection is normal imperfection that counterpoints it.
Also, the underlayer of cement primer makes the ochre-gold acrylic surface look gritty and holds the tendency towards the decorative in counterpoint.
Now, admittedly this could be seen as a neat counterpoint to the national lottery, which is a tax on stupidity.
Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint
And composers are increasingly drawn to counterpoint his verbal music with their own. Times, Sunday Times
Her manifold legs danced swiftly, all angles and jabs; chitin claws embraced, for brief moments, dry and cracking branches; her bulbous body swayed slowly in counterpoint. DREAMING LIES TO CHANGE THE TRUTH • by Kaolin Fire
The place was packed and noisy, with chopsticks clicking against plates in percussive counterpoint to the boisterous conversations. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
The title is not random; canonic counterpoint gives this music its hermetic quality, and one can draw parallels between the music's busy patterns and the busy patterns of city living.
I want you to talk a lot about this because it's the counterpoint to what lots of others have said.
And those hiccupping layers of counterpoint and colours? Times, Sunday Times
In this sense the comparison to Bach and his counterpoint is an apt one, for in that music, too, both player and listener can always hear something new, the elegant course of a contrapuntal voice, the suddenly bold gesture of a countersubject somehow never noticed before. CounterPunch
Thomas' article, counterpointed by a more persuasive discourse by security consultant Martin, seems to be soapbox oratory on behalf of the company.
They're usually quoted only as a counterpoint to the bigoted bigmouth.
A faint, high pitched whine grew and began to pulse through the ship, a counterpoint to the deeper thunder of the turbines.
That's because grilling imparts charred and caramelized flavors that are great counterpoints to the light toasty and sweet flavors wines take on when they're made and/or aged in oak barrels.
Hewitt clearly articulated and shaped every note, phrase, counterpoint, subject and countersubject. Thestar.com - Home Page
If the male nudes were inherently controversial, Hersilia draped in white like her sisters in David's tableaux of the 1780s, would seem to offer an acceptably chaste classical counterpoint.
The familial conflict provides a domestic counterpoint to the war in Europe. The Times Literary Supplement
And chords are groups of more or less consonant sounds which counterpoint has united!
His interest in counterpoint is shown in a set of 120 canons, most of them on the ‘Miserere’ plainsong, which use such techniques as augmentation, diminution, and retrograde motion.
If she conceives of it as a fugue, she uses techniques of counterpoint and fugal structure to make the piece.
As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.
It can be atmospheric, but also provide a counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
A glossy basil leaf offers an aromatic counterpoint to anything with strawberry, raspberry or orange in it. Times, Sunday Times
We produce the effect of counterpoint by juxtaposing lineal periods with grammatical periods.
The game's biggest weakness is its lack of any levity or humor to counterpoint the story's overwhelmingly serious tone.
Signs of life in both manufacturing and exports may help to boost flagging confidence and provide a counterpoint to concerns about the global economy. Times, Sunday Times
Hunt's laconic expertise provided a perfect counterpoint to Walker's high-octane delivery.
Defeat is the one thing that makes victory worth having; it provides the necessary counterpoint to the joy. Times, Sunday Times
But to make a historical point and also embody it requires more than merely counterpointing the possible and the actual.
Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
Her compositions were childish compared to the glories of baroque counterpoint.
Polyphonic music can also be called polyphony, counterpoint, or contrapuntal music. Archive 2009-05-01
He speaks in lurchy, barely articulate ejaculations, set to curiously clunky music that in its effort to avoid fluid femininity slips at times into rather conventional patterns like imitative counterpoint and ostinatos.
Melodies and counterpoints are entwined throughout the mix, grounded by the swagger of Fridmann's surprisingly muscular basslines.
The euro will become a powerful counterpoint to the US dollar, and beside these two powerful currencies the Australian dollar looks increasingly vulnerable.
For a humorous counterpoint to Deacon's scholarly observations on the University of Michigan cases, check out Ann Coulter's latest column.
The brooding elegance of their clothes finds its counterpoint in the lustrous tapestried vestments of Ss Stephen and Augustine, who have descended from heaven to lower the warrior count, in his damascened armour, into his vault.
Water chestnuts and snow peas provided a light counterpoint to the duck.
Greenfield's self-making depends neither on euphonies nor on arguments, but on a counterpoint of sentences, a music of grammar (as in, for example, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns).
That she is also lonely and unloved, except by her arthritic mother, is a nice ironic counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
Her view of the relationship between humans and yôkai is complex, and I particularly love the counterpoint between grandmother and grandson. From the stack: Natsume’s Book of Friends vol. 1
It can be atmospheric, but also provide a counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
Trimmings - the rails, scuppers and waterline - were painted black, in counterpoint to the polished metal of brass fixtures.
Melody, harmony, and rhythm became as important to music as plainsong and counterpoint, and the arts of ornamentation and virtuoso extemporization thrived among the virginalists, and among the lute and consort players.

How To Use Counterpoint In A Sentence

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