counterpointing

Unfortunately, all the channels now seem to follow the same programming formats -- a breaking story followed by days of drivel with experts "counterpointing" each other on whether Rush Limbaugh is really gay or whether Sarah Palin is really going to make a play for the presidency in 2012.

Jim Selman: Media: Mediocrity or Meaning? 2009

My preference, counterpointing Spector, is that I'd gladly sacrifice touching one person on a deep and meaningful level with my well-paced narrative if it meant I could sculpt a playground of fun and entertainment for a group of friends that keeps them together even when we're physically apart.

The Authorship Conflict SVGL 2009

So woe to those who never got the glory of Tessa Pollitt's rumbling, reggae-bred bass counterpointing Ari's dramatic vocals, shifting from operatic trills to a husky howl on New Town's eerie depiction of project junkies; and Babyfather, her lament for the father of her youngest son, Wilton, murdered before the child was born.

Vivien Goldman: Remembering Ari Up Vivien Goldman 2010

So woe to those who never got the glory of Tessa Pollitt's rumbling, reggae-bred bass counterpointing Ari's dramatic vocals, shifting from operatic trills to a husky howl on New Town's eerie depiction of project junkies; and Babyfather, her lament for the father of her youngest son, Wilton, murdered before the child was born.

Vivien Goldman: Remembering Ari Up Vivien Goldman 2010

With its deft counterpointing of polite, courtly etiquette and nature red in tooth and claw, it is also a poem that balances the humans we have become with the animals we once were.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Note (XV), calls for a more accurate use of prose whereby "metaphors will cease to be necessary in conversation, and only be used as the ornaments of poetry," but this apparently rather sad downgrading of the poetic function needs to be set against the rich counterpointing of the two types of language represented by the verse and notes of all his three major poems, and of The

Introduction 2006

John Lethlean's Saturday column was a paean to perfection, counterpointing an absent from the stoves Gordon Ramsey with the very much hands on Blumenthal.

Archive 2008-09-01 2008

I would say that this curatorial endeavor is a success, the works complementing and counterpointing each other in conversations on many levels of sexuality, self-worth, sense of place and cultural identity, and a pervading voyeurism and sensitive self-awareness.

Buzzine » Edens Edge 2007

Huck, reunited with Jim, admires the greatest sunrise in Western literature a few pages later, the river Eden counterpointing the fallen world onshore.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The figure of the Unreliable represents the first successful appearance of an elementary Twainian device: the half- or fully fictionalized “Other,” through which the narrator can write in a counterpointing voice, conveying temperaments, points of view, even self-criticism, that are not available to the narrator himself.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005