It fell to my lot to summarize the results, to suggest a final focus, and generally to draw together the truths in the various views into «the extreme center,» into «the harmony in contrariety,» which is no compromise, but consummation. (religion-online.org)
Perhaps what really characterized New York's intellectual life in those days was the perpetual contrariety between artists» real desire for refined culture and their impetuous need to reject tradition. (brooklynrail.org)
Borrowing its title from Louis Zukofsky's short poem, anew # 21, the exhibition will use the binary of light / dark not as a thematic end goal, but rather as an allegorical springboard into broader dichotomies that emerge as a result of examining compositional contrariety, such as hope and despair, familiar and foreign, human and mechanical, and real and representational. (corbettvsdempsey.com)