| But here too, counterpoised to one tendency in his psychology, there is another. |
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| The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. |
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| In this sense, it is appropriate to see in colonial Brazil an effective dominant culture counterpoised to an alternative popular culture. |
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| The malevolent English Judge Jeffreys is counterpoised with an Irish version, John Toler Norbury. |
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| Evocative details of impoverished lives are counterpoised against volumes of ocean that separate the so-called first and third worlds. |
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| In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite opponent. |
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| The history of Egypt is thus counterpoised to the Biblical memory of Egypt. |
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| The pair of them make a delightfully balanced couple, his gentle intellectuality counterpoised by her firm practicality. |
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| This can be counterpoised with an often vibrant, dynamic and unrecognised segment of an informal economy. |
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| The truth-telling capacities of the glass are counterpoised with the false images reflected back on the Earl by those who assess his body as a part of a wider social organism. |
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| His music, with its strong Afro-Cuban influence, is a combination of powerful melody and flamboyant delivery counterpoised by masterly technique. |
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| Per bend azure and argent, two compass stars counterpoised and issuant from the line. |
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| She was as good a writer as he was, and in her calm, genial wisdom counterpoised his volatility and quick temper. |
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| It is difficult not to wax nostalgic when gold is counterpoised to inflation, currency depreciation, exchange-rate uncertainty and chronic balance-of-payments shortfalls. |
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| In one excellent slow-motion scene his brutal vandalism is counterpoised with his young sister's performance in the glitzy pre-teen dance troupe Sparkle Motion. |
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| The mechanisation of daily life is counterpoised to the bliss of nature. |
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| As the video concludes, with children's drawings hanging in a classroom counterpoised with the exterior of the 16th Street Baptist Church, it brings us back to the tragedy. |
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