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Перевод: counterpoint

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1. It is a work of bold gestures, strong, often dancing, rhythms, a sturdy sense of structure and counterpoint, and a very Viennese feel for melody, coloured too by his Jewish background.
2. Neither a sociological nor a psychological type, he represents an assemblage of mental attitudes, providing a kind of vade-mecum and at the same time an ironic counterpoint to the anxieties of a public that is presumed by the book itself to have lost faith in totalizing explanations and englobing narratives.
3. Overall, however, his work is in austere counterpoint to Gaudi's luxuriant stone tableau of the Nativity on the cathedral's east face.
4. Is it unfair to wish for some appropriate visual counterpoint to Dixon's video, to the precision and eloquence of - for example - Edward Pearce speaking of "the men whose fingers itch from the things against which there are now no checks, and no restraints"?
5. As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him - if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him!
6. Lepage's counterpoint to Cocteau is Miles Davis, who made his first trip out of the United States to Paris in 1949.
7. As a counterpoint to the dramatic formation of major fault lines and tectonic intrusions, which are major focuses for the occurrence of Earth Lights phenomena, the slow deposition of sedimentary rocks builds up the character of an area in its own way.
8. With the uncanny sense of timing which has characterized Eco's writing career, The Name of the Rose epitomizes, almost in counterpoint to Calvino, certain conditions of the contemporary novel.
9. She livened things up considerably, but then she had the most interesting part - by turns urgent, sinister and weird, against the clarinet's rather bland melodiousness and the pianist's all-purpose provision of harmony and counterpoint.
10. The record has been out for a couple of years, and it's called "Electric Counterpoint".
11. Silent, face down in the half-light, the black boy writhes hips and spine, serpentine, oiled, musculature moving as in dance, inviting a cock to complete him, counterpoint his eros of motion with some simpler, maybe brutal, theme.
12. This is a style of wheat beer that I especially enjoy, with its teasing counterpoint of tartness and chocolate-malt sweetness.
13. But this adroitness is constantly fighting against a humanly disruptive counterpoint.