It is a geometric world, with simple contrasts between light and darkness. (haberarts.com)
The stark and simple contrast between the agonising political imperatives of the 1960s and the seeming ease and openness of the modern world is shattered by the snivelling toad Nicholas, which leaves the audience dolefully wondering whether the political world has actually changed very much. (totalpolitics.com)
At first he had a simple contrast between the «flux» of temporal occasions and the «permanence» of nontemporality, but then it grew into a double problem requiring a consequent temporal nature for God as its solution. (religion-online.org)