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

The Pope's focus is a clear counterpoint to talk elsewhere of a migration "crisis" and an "ideological invasion".

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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

Thus the simple lockstep of history has given way to a far more differentiated view that might be likened to an ever-varying counterpoint pattern.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

In revisiting his cherished alien subgenre for the fourth time with “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg returns to where his career started, scraping away the classic marks of extraterrestrial intrigue and replacing them with human counterpoints.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Mr. Wiggins would wrap all manner of counterpoints around it, then burst out in a solo that could be aggressive or restrained, tight or relaxed.

From New York Times ● May 18, 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

He unpacks the various factions and beliefs that make up progressive Christianity and offers six points that progressive Christians might use in arguments and six counterpoints for biblical Christians to have at their disposal.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 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

The rasping, near-atonal singing of Inés Bacán is counterpointed by the clapping and guttural exclamations of rhythm accompanist Bobote.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011

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 De Morgan, William Frend

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

Because it’s the counterpointing and the contrasts that’s some of the richness of it, and to lose that, I think, is to lose one of my aces in the hand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2010

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 Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)