How To Use Juxtaposition In A Sentence

There are three degrees of intimacy between words, of which the first and loosest is expressed by their mere juxtaposition as separate words, the second by their being hyphened, and the third or closest by their being written continuously as one word. Hyphens.
However, this happy juxtaposition of Eastern style and Western living has not always been so effortless.
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
Only when an influence is exerted, whether immediately or through a third party, from one upon another has society come into existence in place of a mere spatial juxtaposition or temporal contemporaneousness or succession of individuals. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
In juxtaposition, Mandrake welcomes blue jeans, Toms and houses a minimalist environment to sip a brewski. Girl at a Bar: The Birthday Bar Conundrum

Haraway's juxtaposition of the words ‘fiction’ and ‘reality’ illustrates the arbitrary nature of these and other binaries in Western society.
The word-play grazes against rhyme, the lilt of the language tilts readers into lineated juxtaposition. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
It was an interesting juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins. It Ain't (Always) That Serious
Rose of Ireland and the White Rose of Devon, a noted Society phrasemonger had dubbed them, seeing them together on the lawn one Ascot Cup Day, their light draperies and delicate ribbons whip-whipping in the pleasant June breeze, ivory-skinned, jetty-locked Celtic beauty and blue-eyed, flaxen-locked Saxon fairness in charming, confidential juxtaposition under one lace sunshade, lined with what has been the last new fashionable colour under twenty names, since then; only that year they called it _Rose fané_. The Dop Doctor
They always seem to focus on surprise and juxtaposition, or tension relief, or catharsis, or something.
For it is the peculiarity of linear extension that it alone allows its magnitudes to be placed in _absolute_ juxtaposition, or, rather, in coincident position; it alone can test the equality of two magnitudes by observing whether they will coalesce, as two equal mathematical lines do, when placed between the same points; it alone can test _equality_ by trying whether it will become _identity_. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
That can in practice mean not much more than what I called the juxtaposition of mutually non-communicating groups. David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: 'Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty'
The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
(link) Nice juxtaposition of this book (Do you believe in faeries?) and Fox Mulder! Slayground: Straight on 'til Morning by Christopher Golden
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
Indeed, Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences.
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. Corita Kent
The historical tendency of the unity of science movement is toward a unified science departmentalized into special sciences, and not toward a speculative juxtaposition of an autonomous philosophy and a group of scientific disciplines. Archive 2009-09-01
This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
But we might remember too that the litter and discard which accompany decay are interesting in their heterogeneity: juxtapositions of fibula and quernstone, gold ring and ox scapula in sifting through the cultural rubbish tip.
The aggressive bleeps and bloops and the potent rhymes create cool juxtaposition, with past glories and modern technology not simply clashing but lending each other some legitimacy as well.
An interesting juxtaposition reared its head yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
The juxtaposition demonstrates the startling fidelity with which the director recreated his vision on screen.
Having a new high-rise next to a prewar tenement is the sort of great juxtaposition of past and present that keeps New York City interesting," she said. Council Aids West Side Housing
It's interesting, I can see a distinction between how a curator like John Szarkowski might draw on news reportage and introduce his own juxtapositions of imagery.
Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes
On the other side his use of colour is very far from the traditional concept of harmony: the chromatic juxtapositions are often daring, or they are previously decided following laws fixed by the artist.
The present juxtaposition of the two sedimentary basins may have resulted from two separate events.
The juxtaposition makes the variation in quality all the more jarring.
It's a juxtaposition that flummoxes opponents -- like Barbra Streisand supporting assault-rifles. Dr. Peggy Drexler: Hot Women Of The Republican Right
There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies.
Indeed, Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences.
It is said that the organ of carving upon wood is prominently developed on all English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people. Paul Clifford — Complete
Its narrative web is undercut by chronological and scenic disruptions and juxtapositions that deliberately frustrate any attempt to fix a unilinear sequence of events, a rigid structure that encloses the story like a frame around a landscape painting. The Story of an African Farm
The juxtaposition of my somewhat flatly morbid work with the life and vitality of the farm is quite provoking.
The juxtaposition of their love-making against Bishop Casey performing his sacred duties will do more than shock.
I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts. Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
A series of diverse episodes are framed by a recurring walking-rhythm motif, and Reicha manages to vary the order and inflection of his reprises in such a way that we hear each theme in close juxtaposition with every other.
The juxtaposition of this telling color with the anti-golf slur can manages to convey both despair at the loss of human life as well as a fierce contempt for those who would use this procedure as a remedy for the products of recreational sex -- though really, the implication is almost undermined by the almost-too-obvious analogy with golf's "have fun getting the ball in the hole" objective. March 11th, 2005
Moving around the vast, churchlike space last week, many people found the juxtaposition curiously moving. Times, Sunday Times
The Elsinore is truly the ship of souls, the world in miniature; and, because she is such a small world, cleaving this vastitude of ocean as our larger world cleaves space, the strange juxtapositions that continually occur are startling. CHAPTER XXVI
Almost all of my work stems from a concern with the strange juxtaposition of the very abstract and the very concrete.
But for me, it was the legacy of Byron and the Shelleys — and thejuxtaposition of such larger-than-life characters in such a pristinebuttoned-down place that gave Lake Geneva its most powerful allure.
This juxtaposition is a characteristic feature of George Eliot's essays and reviews.
These moments, along with the principles of combination that bring them into juxtaposition, do not prioritize original composition over pastiche or sample, ambient noise or snippet of radio.
I'm still marveling at the juxtaposition of these two words: "armchair", connoting casual comfort and complacency, and "terrorist" with its inherently brutal malevolency. Undefined
Freund is likewise recognized for his fascinating revelations on modern life using juxtapositions of subliminally connected images.
it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
After the battle, Constantine adopted the labarum — ☧, a juxtaposition of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P) as a symbol for Christ — as his monogram. Putting the X back in Christmas « Motivated Grammar
Why such an odd juxtaposition? Times, Sunday Times
The juxtapositions of these images are meant to be jarring, to shake us out of our complacencies about medicalized birthing practices and our growing detachment from natural birth.
Then in juxtaposition National Newswatch links to a dated article that warns Canadian children have received the HPV vaccine. National Newswatch Trying To Tell Us Something? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
It is likely, therefore, that the poet's solution to this cultural para - dox was the juxtaposition of his favorite images in the context of an amorphous structure: gold representing the permanence of the state of pure being; light repre - senting the incandescent moment of victory when the hero became a presence, its occurrence a metaphor for the process of heroization, and its visible behavior mysterious and of short duration. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
In painting, a capriccio is an architectural fantasy that combines various buildings, ruins, or landscape elements into an extravagant juxtaposition. Capriccio in Art
Beyond these accretions and intentional change, the space, the vistas, the juxtapositions and potential paths generated by the new building are probably the greatest difference.
Further, Traister examines both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in juxtaposition with their wives. Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister
Here were large-scale photographs (displayed for the first time in lightboxes) of her latest montages: originally hand-spliced (then rephotographed) juxtapositions of images from contemporary porn magazines, pictures of cars, cosmetics and accessories from more mainstream magazines and queasily close-up photographs of food. Linder, the artist with the hex factor
Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
The utter silence for several minutes that introduces the cropdusting sequence-no background music at all throughout the entire sequence, a genius move that doubles the eerie juxtapositions and dramatic ironies that makes the scene such a classic. PopMatters
Another innovative strategy is the juxtaposition of miniaturist woodcuts and engravings with the larger canvases. The Times Literary Supplement
Dick standing at the gate, ruefully contemplating their name -- her name -- in juxtaposition with "dressmaker," crossed her mind directly. Not Like Other Girls
In The Apple in the Dark, written in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just before she left her marriage, a black humor, conveyed through decrescendo and juxtaposition, is the offsetting fruit: The Brazilian Sphinx
It's intended as an idea generator, meant to spark thought through permutation, combination, and juxtaposition; a sort of constrained bibliomancy. Seedy Stories
The opening track ‘Ghetto Musick’ jumps from hardcore rave to sauna soul without pausing for breath, a curiously addictive juxtaposition.
The Greek puts in antithetical juxtaposition, OUR, and His OWN Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Such are the juxtapositions of this holiday season.
The lyrics are passionate and poetic, the musical arrangements full of juxtaposition and surprise.
I enjoyed her juxtaposition of the two main stories of the day and her final paragraph was pure gold. Times, Sunday Times
The spatiality of this kind of novels is a meaning network via juxtaposition and simultaneity.
It was a new system which had come into fashion: the most plastic performances spoiled by the juxtaposition of their caricatures; acrobats, Olympian gods, parodied by a merry-andrew in a ridiculous coat: just as though Nunkie Fuchs, for instance, had taken it into his head to appear with his Three Graces and mimic their tricks, kicking about at the end of a wire with his fat, fatherly paunch and his round, silly face. The Bill-Toppers
Written for three male voices, it contains many common aspects of organa composition, including particularly the frequent and interweaving juxtaposition of intervalic consonance with extreme discord. Archive 2009-05-01
The juxtaposition of pristine glass structures and the grimy creatures crawling at their feet makes for an interesting visual contrast.
The unresolvedness of this juxtaposition opens questions about the pureness of form and the truth of images.
We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed.
Now we're not surprised at the mayor's invidious juxtaposition since he once famously remarked, when questioned about his tax increase's impact on local bodegas, ‘It's a minor economic issue.’
The prisons represent more of a juxtaposition of architectural fragments along breathtaking perspectives than the atrocities of carceral life.
The elegance of the juxtapositions, presented with utmost tact and finesse, allowed associations to seep into our minds almost unbidden.
That grandness is achieved with two schemes: anastrophe (inversion of normal word order) and antithesis (juxtaposition of contrasting ideas).
The juxtaposition of a cracking scherzo and lyrical trio was like going from the party whirlwind to the balcony outside. Times, Sunday Times
The freedom of art, of the poet to act or speak, is controlled by the surface beauty of specific juxtapositions and diversions created by the melody or assonance of language.
The juxtaposition of the fussily constructed trees and their funky, expressionistic bases brings home the schizoid quality of our cultivation of nature.
The scenes in which Kelly is held captive by a shadowy assailant create a real sense of fear by virtue of the juxtaposition of Kelly's sharply-lit, terror-stricken face and Lynch's completely shadow-covered one.
The juxtaposition of those two is comprehensible. Times, Sunday Times
Nightfall is a work of striking juxtapositions and tones that by picture end, come off like an unforgettably disarming person -- you're charmed, discombobulated, even slightly disturbed, and you're not sure what to make of it all. Kim Morgan: For the Love of (Film Noir): Nightfall
There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
Around the same time, Abel Gance began but never finished a vast silent epic, full of symbolic juxtapositions and martial panoramas. How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
In fact, this juxtaposition, this enigma, is the theme of this show. Friday at the Factory on Fifth
It continues to thrive on juxtapositions, the mixture of the shiny new gems and the bright life behind the drab facades of the old buildings.
Position-effect variegation results from the juxtaposition of euchromatin and heterochromatin by chromosome rearrangement or transposon insertion.
A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
The apparent meanders are evidently an artifact arising from close juxtaposition of the oval units.
There is a comfortable and uncomfortable juxtaposition between the pieces that Thea and I read, Thea's more essayish and mine with a different focus on form I mean Thea's are focused on form too but with a particular destination in mind they are more issue-driven I think and I do get self-conscious at one point because of the difference in style I think but also that's what makes the reading so great. NOBODY PASSES, darling
And that juxtaposition is interesting. Times, Sunday Times
The juxtaposition of the two items suggested a programming muddle. Times, Sunday Times
Prof. of Physiology: Kiss is the juxtaposition of two oris muscles in the state of contraction.
My sense of harmony, abrupt juxtapositions of texture, polyphonic approaches to rhythm, and voicing, probably have a lot to do with this relatively early fascination.
The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local vernacular tradition.
This comes, I think, from juxtapositions that strengthen the already heavily saturated colors of the images.
In this respect Trout Mask Replica takes all available musical genres and foregrounds them as genre through abrupt and aggressive juxtaposition.
For example, the undulating pattern of bold word and definition signal a dictionary while the juxtapositioning of date, address and salutation denote a letter.
To see the symbols of violence - yellow barricades, barrels, armed guards, Police jeeps and sniffer dogs - intermingled with the bacchanalia is a strange juxtaposition for us used to a different atmosphere. Kottu
The juxtaposition of two accounts of Tanya's bulimarexia provides insight into the effects an eating disorder can have on a family.
But here, the impact dissipates in the "wink-wink" cleverness of the mailbox / porno juxtaposition, and in the excess of little pictures, undercutting the "presentness" of the other images. Undefined
There is a captivating element of juxtaposition in each painting.
This is a play that works on its audience through juxtapositions (both ironic and evocative) and parallelisms that remind us that questions of self-identity in a shifting world are and will always be with us.
And because an alternative opinion is here, in juxtaposition to your own. Over / Under: The Boondock Saints « FirstShowing.net
The juxtaposition of the horrible imagery coming directly from the victim's recollections, to the obvious innocence of the parties involved makes for a mind-bending experience.
This juxtaposition is exemplary of the divide and attempted dialogue between contemporary art and popular culture.
The resulting ambiguities have arguably frustrated readers for whom the contrasts and juxtapositions of the preceding epigrams offer a reassuring set of interpretive coordinates.
Life on that island is marked by an uneasy tension, the juxtaposition of living surrounded by that which is at once beneficent and at the same time terribly exacting in its toll on human flesh.
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. Corita Kent
Many of the poem's juxtapositions seem casual or accidental at first, but then turn treacherous.
After the battle, Constantine adopted the labarum — ☧, a juxtaposition of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P) as a symbol for Christ — as his monogram. Putting the X back in Christmas « Motivated Grammar
Using color in "patch-like juxtapositions, derived from Cezanne's color modulations," her painting "Exploding Cherry Tree" achieves an exuberance tempered by a net-like interlace of dark strokes. John Seed: Mari Lyons: Every Object Rightly Seen
I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the _reading public, _ to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology. Nightmare Abbey
One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling. The Worldly Philosophers
A strong colorist, she seemingly delights in bold juxtapositions.
(Also, in the pale cockcrow hours of the morning, the image of a snow-white tiger with a blood-splattered coat proved a nice and almost fashionable juxtaposition to paint-splattered stoles and my imagination just started to run with it.) Verena von Pfetten: Dear Fashion Industry, Please Stop Showing Boring Clothes At Boring Shows
She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins. March 2006
There is what I suppose is intended to be the telling juxtaposition of different sorts of ‘conspiracy theories’, linked by the sort of anfractuous logic that informs Horowitz's ‘Discover the Network’.
In 1911 he met Braque, and between 1914 and 1915 he produced the Constructions series, polychromed wood and plaster sculptures with an emphatic frontality, which investigated juxtapositions of volume.
In a floor speech, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, called the juxtaposition diabolical.
There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly one can distort the truth without fudging figures or Photoshopping images, simply by clever juxtaposition.
Another interesting thread is the juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary practice.
Instead, the melodic phrases owe their unity and continuity to the juxtaposition of short segments with obvious motivic connections.
The juxtaposition of the two names was probably not accidental. VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
In lyrics, however, they are freely crossed, but with this restriction, that one rhyme of either kind is never found next to a different one of the same kind, i.e., two _different_ masculines or feminines are never found in juxtaposition. Esther
It is hard to imagine a more jarring or tasteless juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
Matt Lee's gallery of matchboxes from the subcontinent highlights the lovely art that adorns these little bits of ephemera: "The random and disparate juxtapositions of the imagery encapsulate the mix of historic, mythological and contemporary visual culture in India. Boing Boing
Rather, we thrill to the juxtaposition of four amazing actors trading turns as the literary lovers in their prime and autumnal years.
The name enchants, and so does the idea-the juxtaposition of the Renaissance boy, the penny arcade, and the Photomat in the subway ... Gifts That Keep On Giving
Like Pound's ‘In A Station of the Metro,’ Piombino uses juxtaposition rather than simile and metaphor; schools are never said to be machines or directly like machines.
On further search this juxtaposition seems to be the result of the usual confusion between uranography and geography.
What an interesting juxtaposition of fledgeling popular culture only metres away from chanting mobs of protesters. Times, Sunday Times
Ultimately this scheme has to do with the architects' pleasure in materials and light, and in juxtaposition of the rough and refined.
The letters manage to humanise his juxtapositions of emotional extremity and spiritual clarity.
He understands the nature of composition, the juxtaposition of light and dark, and the hypnotic wonder of color and texture.
The effect upon the eye is not monotonous, for a patient art has infinitely varied the combinations of pattern and the juxtapositions of color; while the depth of undercutting of the stucco, and the treatment of the bronze doors and of the carved cedar corbels, necessarily varies with the periods which produced them. G. Roger Denson: From Mark Twain to Malcom X: Americans Discover the Great Mosques
As in her previous work, Farnsworth explores dichotomies of biology and technology, self and other and repulsion and desire, through abrupt juxtapositions of disparate forms and materials.
My sense of harmony, abrupt juxtapositions of texture, polyphonic approaches to rhythm, and voicing, probably have a lot to do with this relatively early fascination.
One never fully accepts the juxtaposition of the Hemingway - person in his writing with the simple man.
The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue. Rouge
She's built a name for herself by playing up to a classic comedy juxtaposition: the well-brought-up girl who talks absolute filth. This week's new comedy
Johnson of Cheshire: that he was himself likely the compiler of the four parts of _The Merry-Thought_ and that, whatever the individual versifiers may have intended, this infamous collection of graffiti -- _as collection_ -- shares very closely with Johnson’s other work a spirit of wild variety, eccentric juxtaposition, and essential anarchism that is meant to lead, not to clever parody of polite literature, but to a new, almost apocalyptic vision of the sublime. The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4
Here they are stifled by large pictures of lesser quality, although the juxtapositions are instructive.
Training methods involve repeating these combinations until the juxtaposition of foot, hip and shoulder becomes automatic.
The juxtaposition of scenes that are brightly lighted with those that are darker is expertly used to underpin the sense of dread.
This time around concomitance is emphasized more often, violinist Liza Rietz filtering her playing throughout the album rather than offering a decoupled juxtaposition with the other members.
The traditional museum disciplines of juxtaposition, analysis and interpretation were reduced to the minimum; experience was paramount.
The production of this vibration is by agreement on the part of all great colorists impossible through impasted color or that applied flatly to the surface, which they declare cannot be as powerful, as significant or as beautiful as that which vibrates, either by reason of the juxtaposition of color plainly seen, as with the impressionists, or of its broken tone, or by virtue of the influence of a transparent glaze of color which enables two colors to be seen at once. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures
The irony: juxtaposition is a juxtaposition of juxta and position.
I am left pondering the stupidity of this juxtaposition.
But what happens when the idea of drawing images of womanhood on the contemporary stage is born through juxtaposition of the two ancient heroines, moulded to the necessities of the experiences of womanhood?
The apparent juxtaposition of literati and merchant culture at opposite ends of the east wall is misleading.
Training methods involve repeating these combinations until the juxtaposition of foot, hip and shoulder becomes automatic.
Note the coincidental juxtaposition of these two Summer-themed songs.
This gives the composer plenty of opportunity to play with juxtapositions of high voices, and to set up Phaedra as an increasingly ferocious, death-dealing predator with designs on an innocent guy who just wants to be left alone with the ambiguously gendered Artemis. Divided Inside, in Theme and Structure
In either case, the juxtaposition of sly humour and high drama seems to mirror the gap between Stiller's two personas, as farceur and tragedian.
Juxtapositions of rock and mineral make obvious reference to the powerful composition and structure of the Iceland landscape.
The juxtaposition of heavy wool against something flimsy looks very modern. Times, Sunday Times
Rather, we thrill to the juxtaposition of four amazing actors trading turns as the literary lovers in their prime and autumnal years.
Images are made strange in her works by their changed contexts and odd juxtapositions.
I admired the energy of the prose, the juxtapositions, the surreal imagery, the insights.
I can't imagine the work to make, and then "unmake," that project, but I bet it brought out some interesting juxtapositions. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
This is often accomplished through a juxtaposition of scenes that could almost be continuations of each other, if it were not for the change in location and actors.
His juxtapositions are anything but seamless - colour/black and white, male/female, portrait/landscape - precisely so that the eye is confronted by obvious disunities that the mind must somehow resolve. The Guardian World News
Even the likes of Ghajini do not "teem" the way a really high-quality masala movie would; and the likes of Bhansali provoke death-by-stupefaction at the juxtaposition of the cavernous interiors and mere handful of characters. NAACHGAANA
However, this happy juxtaposition of Eastern style and Western living has not always been so effortless.
The show is punctuated by subtle, skilled curatorial juxtapositions.
The sense of juxtaposition is heard within the context of a greater sense of structural unity, achieved through the interconnection of ideas.
The juxtaposition of two such facts seemed to me auspicious. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
The deliberate contrast between moving forward and moving backwards creates a clear juxtaposition.
Beautiful juxtapositions of hardness and softness, strength and delicacy, men's work and women's work - and all within the context of remaking material history.
I found the juxtaposition naive, given my background in Stoic philosophy of managing the passions in public life.
The juxtaposition of this passage with the following pericope underscores this theme of discontinuity.
This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child. Nevermore
The juxtaposition of pure and untarnished souls versus those souls ripped apart by murderous acts has been clearly set up with Harry's undamaged soul vs.
If you've seen the film, you know the juxtaposition of the Port-O-San man and the legions of concertgoers at the Woodstock "aquarian exposition" makes for a charming if not bizarre moment. At Woodstock, there was plenty of peace & music—but few toilets
But the juxtaposition of the two buildings speaks volumes about the rapid disappearance of regional, vernacular, even weirdo architecture.
Outside, after dark, black-and-white cloudscapes were projected onto the gallery's townhouse facade in pretty juxtapositions reminiscent of Surrealist collage.
English skulls; and the sagacious Mr. Combe has placed this organ at the back of the head, in juxtaposition to that of destructiveness, which is equally large among our countrymen, as is notably evinced upon all railings, seats, temples, and other things-belonging to other people. Paul Clifford — Volume 01
This juxtaposition of brutal reality and lyrical beauty runs through Park's stories.
A strong colorist, she seemingly delights in bold juxtapositions.
The magazine had a history of such juxtapositions.
The juxtaposition, as they proved every month and as Mr. Meyerowitz's collection reconfirms, can be side-splitting. Read This Review or . . .
It was soon evident, from the juxtaposition of the two, one as accusant, the other defendant, which was not to be mistaken, even by a person ignorant of the language in which they spoke, that all was not right. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. Corita Kent
The image, taken in 1966 by NASA's robotic probe Lunar Orbiter 1, presented a stunning juxtaposition of planet and moon that no earthling had ever seen before. Restoring History - NASA Watch
There are striking juxtapositions between the documentary image of black power and our popular memory of it," which he described as an "emotionally charged and destructive movement. NYT > Home Page
By the early eighteenth century, operatic juxtapositions (aria versus recitative, for instance) came to be seen as part of a standard order of representation, weakening the original shock-effect of the genre.
He is able to construct space through the juxtaposition of colors and to play with allusive reference.
Thus this reality cannot be the sheer resultant of the juxtaposition of individuals who are monads, totally self-sufficient and self-referring entities, with respect to one another.
There has always been something jarring and philosophically disconcerting about their juxtaposition. Times, Sunday Times
The human community, as he conceives it, is neither a mere juxtaposition of atomic individuals nor a superorganism living its own life apart from the individual members.
A kind of levelling has taken place, in which works co-exist in democratic if sometimes odd juxtapositions.
All these things cohere because of the surrealism and typical Spanish violence of the juxtapositions, the balance between flat prose and highly florid colouration.

How To Use Juxtaposition In A Sentence

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