A conceptual separation or demarcation

Usage examples of contrast.

His accommodationist, political attitude to Court rulings was in sharp contrast to the methods of Douglas and Black, who had little interest in voting against their deeply held principles merely to end up on the winning side.

John Adams, by contrast, had neither debts nor slaves and all his life abhorred the idea of either.

And the pleasure of working with Jefferson stood in such vivid contrast to the ill will and dark suspicions Adams had had to contend with when dealing with Arthur Lee.

In marked contrast to both Franklin and Jefferson, Adams remained the picture of health.

The view that Adams was unsuited to prepare the nation for war and that Hamilton, by contrast, was the ideal choice for second-in-command was shared by McHenry and Secretary Pickering alike.

Azzam, by contrast, favored continuing to fight in Afghanistan until it had a true Islamist government.

By the time the local police arrived, the horses had gone back to grazing placidly, lending an eerie contrast between rural Americana and unknown alien intentions.

It is, possibly, the aptest contrast with the seriousness of our hero and heroine.

The flowing gown she wore, draped around her shoulders and left arm, presented a study in contrast, as the light from various areas around the statue and its pedestal helped illuminate the statue against the dark background.

But before long, we could make out the lunar surface, a picture in stark contrasts, since sunlight brightened some area, others it did not, leaving unlighted areas really pitch black.

Though he depended on the attachment of the soldiers, who loved him for virtues like their own, he was conscious that his mean and barbarian origin, his savage appearance, and his total ignorance of the arts and institutions of civil life, formed a very unfavorable contrast with the amiable manners of the unhappy Alexander.

But the impression left was so strong that ever since all the girl friends of his sisters recalled to him Antonia Avellanos by some faint resemblance, or by the great force of contrast.

And, as if to enhance its charm by contrast, everything changes as you pass the Baidar Gate, and when you have crossed the Baidar Valley the balmy air becomes raw and chill, the bald mountains tame and common-place, and the long descent is through an ashy-gray country, swept over by an icy blast, saddened by a lowering sky, unrelieved by a flower, a bush, or a cottage.

At Christmas a French magazine snatched a picture of Victoria looking gaunt and vacant as she went to church with her family at Aston Langley, and contrasted it with the happy picture of them both at Balmoral in the summer, but the British newspapers paid little attention.

He had a sense of something like tranquillity, contrasting with the frenzied modernity of Ulan Bator with its cosmopolitan influx of strangers.