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juxtaposition
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  • The screen cuts to another photo of me juxtaposed with Amazing Amy.†   (source)
  • Juxtaposing those stories with the one of my weekend dates cheapened everything about them.†   (source)
  • The dirty feeling of being an agent for a foreign power, juxtaposed with the thrill of fooling a whole legion of government spooks.†   (source)
  • He didn't understand why the Times would take a ball game off the sports page and juxtapose it with news of such ominous consequence.†   (source)
  • The juxtaposition of Cedric and Franklin causes Tom to squirm.†   (source)
  • Maybe this is what keeps me in Addis all these years, Hema thought, this juxtaposition of culture and brutality, this molding of the new out of the crucible of primeval mud.†   (source)
  • The Devonian fish, the juxtaposed thumb, the fontanel, technology--click click, click click …†   (source)
  • I see the nature of the current crises in the juxtaposition of the individual to society.†   (source)
  • When we don't have a story we make one up—that's why the juxtapositions of film editing work.†   (source)
  • A juggler kept a half-dozen swords and axes whirling through the air as skewers of blood sausage were brought sizzling to the tables, a juxtaposition that Tyrion thought passing clever, though not perhaps in the best of taste.†   (source)
  • There, in almost incestuously close juxtaposition, seven scrap-books of newspaper and magazine clippings had been bracketed, at the bindings, directly into the plaster.†   (source)
  • In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect.†   (source)
  • He didn't go near the lubra - knowing that for some reason his nearness alarmed her (perhaps because she was ignorant enough to think that the Spirit of Death might pass, in juxtaposition, from him to her).†   (source)
  • Here, on Viola's wall, in odd juxtaposition with the other artifacts of Viola's house, flew a Corsair, the dark shadow of my childhood.†   (source)
  • Although I'm not sure about the juxtaposition you did in the second pairing-   (source)
  • I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.   (source)
  • ...he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other.   (source)
    juxtaposition = side-x-side positioning (usually to contrast)
  • The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.†   (source)
  • The coarse facade stood in stark juxtaposition to the immaculately landscaped gardens and glassy pond.†   (source)
  • Something about the juxtaposition deepened the moment, faces against the landscape, the enormous openness, the breadth of sheepland and divided sky that contains everything outside us, unbearably.†   (source)
  • She was young, smart, ambitious and so on, and interestingly sweet-mean, playing with juxtapositions as a form of ironic dialogue with herself—a device to help her confront the prospect of being famous.†   (source)
  • Of course the film was strange at first, elusive in its references and filled with baroque apparitions and hard to adapt to—you wouldn't want it any other way Overcomposed close-ups, momentous gesturing, actors trailing their immense bended shadows and there was something to study in every frame, the camera placement, the shapes and planes and then the juxtaposed shots, the sense of rhythmic contradiction, it was all spaces and volumes, it was tempo, mass and stress.†   (source)
  • Rotting portico and scaling walls, it stood, not ravaged, not invaded, marked by no bullet nor soldier's iron heel but rather as though reserved for something more some desolation more profound than ruin, as if it had stood in iron juxtaposition to iron flame, to a holocaust which had found itself less fierce and less implacable, not hurled but rather fallen back before the impervious and indomitable skeleton which the flames durst not, at the instant's final crisis, assail; there was…†   (source)
  • He drags a second plank into position and slants the two of them into their final juxtaposition, gesturing toward the ones yet on the ground, shaping with his empty hand in pantomime the finished box.†   (source)
  • The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.†   (source)
  • When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.†   (source)
  • Is a sequence of events possible in eternity, a juxtaposition of objects in infinity?†   (source)
  • Was it possible to imagine so absurd and cynical a juxtaposition?†   (source)
  • We thus gain another letter, r, represented by (, with the words 'the tree' in juxtaposition.†   (source)
  • Only his fellow-snobs knew that he was of their number, for, owing to their inability to appreciate the intervening efforts of his imagination, they saw in close juxtaposition the social activities of Legrandin and their primary cause.†   (source)
  • Now there can exist no irritating juxtaposition of dissimilar personalities comparable to that which is possible aboard a great war-ship fully manned and at sea.†   (source)
  • From this day she forced herself to take pains to avoid him—never allowing herself, as formerly, to remain long in his company, even if their juxtaposition were purely accidental.†   (source)
  • But that made it decidedly more devout than free—yet another juxtaposition of terms that tended to slip away when you began defining things.†   (source)
  • Thus it happened that in Eustacia's brain were juxtaposed the strangest assortment of ideas, from old time and from new.†   (source)
  • In juxtaposition with Troy, Oak had a melancholy tendency to look like a candle beside gas, and ill at ease, he went out again, thinking he would go home; for, under the circumstances, he had no heart for the scene in the barn.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the eastern side of the Place, rose a heavy and hybrid construction, formed of three buildings placed in juxtaposition.†   (source)
  • My immediate purpose is to lead you to place in juxtaposition, that very unusual activity of which I have just spoken with that very peculiar shrill (or harsh) and unequal voice, about whose nationality no two persons could be found to agree, and in whose utterance no syllabification could be detected.†   (source)
  • He found the count standing before some copies of Albano and Fattore that had been passed off to the banker as originals; but which, mere copies as they were, seemed to feel their degradation in being brought into juxtaposition with the gaudy colors that covered the ceiling.†   (source)
  • By juxtaposition.†   (source)
  • In juxtaposition to it, and under its immediate control, is the representative of the executive power, whose duty it is to constrain the refractory to submit by superior force.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was almost blinded, and he could feel Bathsheba's warm arm tremble in his hand—a sensation novel and thrilling enough; but love, life, everything human, seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe.†   (source)
  • Moreover, at the age of ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; a newcomer is in the way.†   (source)
  • Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity.†   (source)
  • The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the ground.†   (source)
  • Whilst the savages were engaged in the work of civilization, the Europeans continued to surround them on every side, and to confine them within narrower limits; the two races gradually met, and they are now in immediate juxtaposition to each other.†   (source)
  • A scroll of smoke blew aside and revealed to him a wheat-rick in startling juxtaposition with the decaying one, and behind this a series of others, composing the main corn produce of the farm; so that instead of the straw-stack standing, as he had imagined comparatively isolated, there was a regular connection between it and the remaining stacks of the group.†   (source)
  • If, in a people which is imperfectly accustomed to the exercise of freedom, or which is exposed to violent political passions, a deliberating minority, which confines itself to the contemplation of future laws, be placed in juxtaposition to the legislative majority, I cannot but believe that public tranquillity incurs very great risks in that nation.†   (source)
  • The central government of each State, which is in immediate juxtaposition to the citizens, is daily apprised of the wants which arise in society; and new projects are proposed every year, which are discussed either at town meetings or by the legislature of the State, and which are transmitted by the press to stimulate the zeal and to excite the interest of the citizens.†   (source)
  • The constant juxtaposition of "Algernon and Charlie," and "Charlie and Algernon," made it clear that they thought of both of us as a couple of experimental animals who had no existence outside the laboratory.†   (source)
  • By juxtaposition.†   (source)
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