counterpoint

Having lived long in an unusual place, Ruth provides a calm counterpoint to the frantic Tom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

Jackson’s speech was in some ways reminiscent of—and provided a counterpoint to—a speech that Justice Samuel Alito gave in 2021 defending the court’s use of the emergency docket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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

The music that is made up of counterpoint can also be called polyphony, or one can say that the music is polyphonic or speak of the polyphonic texture of the music.

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

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

He also endeavored to delineate five counterpoints to her response's arguments to "assist Willis in understanding the relevant Constitutional and legal authorities of the Committee's oversight," according to the committee's X post.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2023

Caius Williams on acoustic bass grounds, nudges and counterpoints feeo’s voice; electronics and backup vocals materialize and vanish.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

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

“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

Eventually another woman peels away from the rolling group and counterpointed versions of the earlier material begin.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011

A glass of Château La Noë 2007 Muscadet counterpointed the meaty oysters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2010

Autograph in A.— 'Standard rhythm opened and counterpointed.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges

The counterpointing of quasi-rabbinical disputation with camp-tinged sarcasm remains one of the central literary achievements of “Angels in America.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

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

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