This counterpointing was also used elsewhere in the film, with the slapstick antics of the two police officers occurring in between scenes of torture.

Bois expertly fashions such sections, either as monolithic blocks or, by contrast, in a counterpointing of different groups (McDermott 1967, 152).

The remainder of the story provides a humorous and philosophically interesting counterpointing of the annihilatory statements in Lucretius' poem and the Wub fur that, somehow, amends it.

Caldecott loved to play with such visual counterpointing (the tragic demise of the dish eloping with the spoon; the decrepit beggar man fiddling while bonny lasses and lads dance around the maypole).

One of the play's ingenious structural devices is its counterpointing of events at the black leaders' conference with dialogues between a young journalist trying to cover the secret meeting and a fictional black blues pianist named Butterfingers McCann.

His solo album, on Bridge, offers pieces for electric and acoustic guitars, including "Cairn," a memorial made of gentle appeals and somber rippling sounds, and "Lost and Found," a darting and sonorous counterpointing of Renaissance music and rock.

And he has to work only every other game while his counterpoint across the court takes over.

There may, however, be one counterpoint during the second half of the year.

Writing a book would be a counterpoint to my illness.

This was my counterpoint, to let him stand there talking to a tree.

The contrasts between the two men almost create a counterpoint.

In some passages, they also create counterpoint with just each other.

Her words illustrated a basic point and counterpoint of the campaign.

It should be seen as an essential counterpoint to that pressure.

For 30 years he was professor of harmony and counterpoint there.

"If there's a little difference it can add to the counterpoint," he said.

His passage from life to death is in counterpoint to images of fire and water.

They make for an interesting counterpoint to the many variations of student work.

But the teams played a second half filled with points and counterpoints.

Some of the major points and counterpoints are listed below.

The rhythm was strong and it beat counterpoint to his own.

The police presence provided a grave counterpoint to everything else.

Counterpoint can have its own intellectual appeal - something quite different.

I was once deceived as to the value of counterpoint.

As always in the desert, the air at night was cool, counterpoint to the heat of day.

"And that was also an interesting way to have a counterpoint.

The counterpoint, in other words, is not only musical but also poetic.

Form, balance and elegance were thought of as more important than counterpoint.

Through the walls I could still hear music, which made an uneasy counterpoint with the radio.

Kelly had asked Mozart whether or not he should study counterpoint.

The spectacles were more a counterpoint to her looks than a cover.

And the sound of the distant guns counterpointed her fears.

Counterpointing this he heard the soft drop and chunk of rock.

Not utter and complete, but large - its size counterpointed by two or three singing birds.

But it is also heard throughout, playing variations of its theme and counterpointing the vocal line.

Religious development is counterpointed with the development of London.

Counterpointing it, however, had also been a dispiriting sense of betrayal and weakness.

The next sigh from the chair was counterpointed by a sudden loud knocking at the front door.

The music's dissonance and sliding passages are counterpointed by the activity onstage.

There was no thesis, counterpointed with antithesis, harmonized into synthesis.

The voice of a frantic woman, counterpointed by the professional calm of the emergency operator.

He and Adele hadn't had a chance to plan this, but from their first meeting they'd shown an aptitude for counterpointing one another.

Her whole body writhed in absurd fast-time, counterpointing every movement of hands or legs.

A more solid sound counterpointed the patter of raindrops.

The passacaglia motif is counterpointed by one single simple melody.

Bonnie's steady, racking sobs had come from the bedroom, counterpointing his words.

This was counterpointed by the screaming sirens atop the two bright red vehicles which had so recently arrived on the scene.

Coyote-howls rose in the night, counterpointing the wind.

The sound was counterpointed by Marie's strident breathing.

The glitz on screen is smartly counterpointed to the skeptical off-screen voice.

They're counterpointed by handsome modern windows donated by de Gaulle on a 1967 visit.

His bracing prose is counterpointed by 127 well-chosen illustrations.

The two ranges counterpointed each other nicely.

Claudia was counterpointing it, softly, with a treble flute.

He played a return melody, his flute-like theme prettily counterpointing the saxophone.

Her strings and tubes played an intricate little melody counterpointed by the beat of her drums.