counterpoint

Another unappreciated aspect of the SpaceX IPO is that over 10,000 employees bought it, said Baker, which, he noted, is a counterpoint to exhaustive analysis of the share-lockup schedule.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Pork chops have a long-standing relationship with applesauce — something sweet on the side, a soft counterpoint to the richness.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

Long seen as a philosophical counterpoint to “2001,” the film turns isolation inward, where the danger isn’t running out of resources but being unable to escape yourself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

The IEA was formed after the Arab oil embargoes shook the world economy, as an oil consumers’ counterpoint to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Of course, there are counterpoints to the notion that chips can have lasting value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

To say all Hell broke loose after that is an overstatement, but the barrage of counterpoints was piercing.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026

Strangely, no mention is made of her three younger brothers, who also trained as apprentices to Orazio and who might have served as dramatic counterpoints for the young female artist.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024

There are some counterpoints, but we should not get into them because, frankly, this is one of the most annoying legal arguments I have covered in my entire life.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2024

Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

McGregor, whose movement style is often characterised by hyperkinetic complexity, extreme limb extensions counterpointed against buckling torsos, said that when he read the poem, he was drawn to its vivid physical imagery and beauty.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

“Tenet” is Nolan’s densely science-fictional take on the James Bond thriller, but essentially it’s about entropy and reverse entropy and a series of jaw-dropping action sequences that take place in that counterpointed slipstream of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2021

This doesn’t always work in a trio setting, where there’s little melody to be counterpointed, but it’s quite powerful in Halvorson’s new octet.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2017

The hits Bulletproof and In for the Kill are still arrestingly tinny, counterpointed tonight by the rumble of fans singing along, while the new material contains the kernel of something juicier.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2013

She admitted this, but counterpointed out that she could just see him for half an hour to hear his own account of the incident, and then they could begin fair.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Sontag, of course counterpointing, noted that “its most obvious trait is assertiveness of one kind or another.”

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2020

The television was on, and Tupac’s “Hail Mary” was playing on his phone, a tolling bell eerily counterpointing the opening rap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019

The songs are more effective in a gentle, reflective mode — with lovely counterpointing of wistful, individual voices — than when they try to stir or rouse.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2014

Weirdly, it adds something here, counterpointing all the anger and defiance in the lyrics with an affecting frailty.

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

As a draughtsman Leech has been admirably placed by Mr. du Maurier, who calls him a perfect ballad-writer as compared with the more scientific counterpointing of Charles Keene.

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann