Sentences with phrase «sharp contrasts of»

In 2012, Adam Cohen started to make abstract paintings, applying pigment in wide, vigorous strokes, creating colorfully intricate tapestries with sharp contrasts of black and white.

Morning light creates those cloud - like whites, while the personages have sharp contrasts of black and color.

Both Missoni and Emilio Pucci (see below) played with the sharp contrast of colors paired together.

And I love the sharp contrast of the black and white up top with the softer color on bottom.

I love the sharp contrast of the buttercup yellow dress with the loud magenta hue of the jacket.

Wonderstruck will likely divide audiences who can't make it past the sharp contrast of two stories being told simultaneously; one is silent, in black and white, while the other in color with audio.

The first time I entered Lofa in 2012 on a work assignment, it was a sharp contrast of wartime relics, the bullet pockmarked buildings that stood across the street from the new Reconstruction Era landmarks, like the Total gas station and rebuilt cement homes with metal roofs that shined in the brilliant sun.

Some users also find that the Oasis screen image looks washed - out compared to the amazingly sharp contrast of the Voyage.

It's an unusual but inspired approach that sets up a sharp contrast of styles within each piece, and makes these figures all the more mysterious and alluring.

The sharp contrast of a booming real estate market and a sluggish economy has brought literally thousands of new associates to residential sales over the last few years.

Not exact matches

Goldman's trading results were in sharp contrast to those from JPMorgan Chase (jpm) and Bank of America (bac), which reported a rise in trading revenue.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

As Grieve observed, London and Barcelona proved to be sharp contrasts in terms of business conditions.

These types of businesses for which MBA programs are built, however, require skill sets that are in sharp contrast to the needs of the entrepreneurial growth businesses of today.

It states that in sharp contrast to how Boomers made tech - buying decisions, «Millennials prioritize ease of doing business first and industry expertise last.»

Still, Pompeo was quick to praise NATO as «invaluable» just minutes after getting off his plane, in his first meeting of the day, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, a sharp contrast to Trump's earlier rebuke of the alliance.

In sharp contrast to the high - stakes, breathlessly followed proceedings of recent months, this appearance — on March 6, 2014 — occurred in a nearly empty courtroom in downtown Los Angeles, with not a single reporter present.

Entrepreneurs tend to be highly educated: 45 % of American self - made entrepreneurs have advanced degrees, a sharp contrast with the early 20th century, when men like Henry Ford dropped out of school to become tinkerers.

While the new 4 - in - One's 10X lens suffers from the same key issue as before — the challenge of stabilization for a roughly postage stamp - sized focus area at a several - inch distance — the results we achieved were superior in contrast and apparently a little sharper, as well.

This is in sharp contrast to the Harper Government's philosophy of a much smaller federal government, with little or no intrusion in those roles and responsibilities assigned to the provinces in the Constitution.

This statement is in sharp contrast to the statements of analysts at IHS Markit and GTM Research that new cell and module factories in the United States do not make economic sense despite the imposition of tariffs on imported modules.

This is clearly inadequate, and is sharp contrast to the amount of prudence ($ 4.5 billion in year one, rising to $ 6 billion by year five) included in the previous government's budget plans.

Even allowing for this, the results to date were well above expectations and in sharp contrast to what might have been expected given performance of the economy.

That stands in sharp contrast to recommended levels in early 2010, of above 66 percent for equities and below 30 percent for bonds.

This fragmented management and trading environment is in sharp contrast to that of the modern financial world, and often presents a barrier for entry for a large percentage of the population.

The unexpected drop was in sharp contrast with last week's jump in the consumer sentiment index put out by Thomson Reuters / University of Michigan.

That was in sharp contrast with an increase in use of 12.7 percent recorded a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said last week.

This is in sharp contrast to the trading of equities where a plethora of online retail equity trading platforms and heavy competition between discount brokers has dramatically lowered costs for retail investors and execution is (if anything) better for retail investors.

These projections are in sharp contrast to Angola's experience of the past few years.

Indicators of producer price inflation by stage of production confirmed the sharp contrast between domestic and external sources of inflationary pressure.

Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

In sharp contrast, one of President Trump's recent executive orders attempts to support the coal sector by undoing his predecessor's Clean Power Plan.

Significantly, the US current account was in slight surplus during the big tax cuts of 1964 and 1981 — in sharp contrast to today's deficit of 2.6 % of GDP.

This announcement comes in sharp contrast to what we are used to seeing out of CYH.

That was a bit worse than even the estimate based on a terminal P / E of 7, because the brutal 1974 bottom formed a sharp but temporary «V.» In contrast, in the 10 years beginning in 1990 (when the price / peak - earnings ratio was close to 11), the S&P 500 achieved a total return of fully 20 % annually.

The sharp contrast between the strength of domestic demand and weak external demand is expected to diminish gradually in the year ahead.

KELOWNA — In sharp contrast to the BC Liberal government, Adrian Dix and the New Democrats are prepared to revitalize BC's agricultural sector through comprehensive measures including grants to fruit growers, the purchase of BC foods by BC's health care...

China's stock rally has come as a sharp contrast to the nation's slowing economy and is all the more precarious because it has been driven by unprecedented levels of margin financing, or investors» taking on debt to trade in shares.

In their September 2013 paper entitled «Time Variation in Precious Metal Safe Haven Status — Evidence from the USA», Brian Lucey and Sile Li compare and contrast the effectiveness of four precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) as safe havens from sharp declines in U.S. stocks (the S&P 500 Index) and U.S. bonds (a 10 - year U.S. Treasury note index).

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

Ukrainian Muslims and Jews have demonstrated an increasing solidarity with each other, which stands in sharp contrast to Muslim — Jewish relations in the rest of Europe.

In sharp contrast to some religious proponents of «deep ecology» who betray a monistic passion to subsume all of reality into a conceptual tapioca pudding of undifferentiated Oneness, we know that neither we nor nature is God.

As in Israel, the pull of agriculture was strong, in large part because it was different: «The image of the farmer raising cows and chickens stands in sharp contrast to the stereotype of the city - dwelling, business - oriented Jew.»

In sharpest contrast to such partisan excitements is D. Michael Lindsay's Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (Oxford).

In sharpest contrast to the embarrassing effusions of the Yale letter, the response of the Holy See represents, I believe, just the right mix of cordiality, clarity, candor, and caution.

In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp contrast between a religion of superficiality and self - absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person.

The argument gains a good deal of persuasiveness from the sharp contrast in religiosity between that period and the «50s, when liberal and moderate Protestants were not only happily a part of the American way of life but enjoyed a growth curve comparable to that of conservative Protestants.

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

This stands in pretty sharp contrast to the Republican circling of the wagons around Roy Moore.

Prophecy illuminates the past, present, and future by employing story and poetry to bring into sharp contrast the way things are with the way things should be with, the ways of power - hungry people with the ways of a loving God, the path of cruelty and injustice with the path of righteousness, the kingdoms of this world with the coming Kingdom of God.