counterpointed's Usage Examples:

"virtually his entire career as composer, poet and visual artist was counterpointed by his own words", including this volume in the middle of his most productive.

Other images in the film, are counterpointed by Bach violin sonatas and 1980s disco.

singer Jenny Lewis's vocal style, but the upbeat music is generally counterpointed by the often dark and morose subject matter that the lyrics reference.

described the film as "an astute and assured tableau that's compellingly counterpointed by a score by Calexico's John Convertino.

This is counterpointed with a dialogue between a Crusader and her enemy in which both men are.

A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of ordinary people; warped.

story and dialogue, the film creates a vision of madness and folly, counterpointed by the lush but unforgiving Amazonian jungle.

Holding onto this smile for just as long as I can' are enriched and counterpointed by the sound of Rea's low, heavily weathered rasp.

games, which they managed twice, between June 16–21 and June 24–29, counterpointed by their longest losing streak of 11 games from August 10–20.

chiefly characterized by a poetic tone via the use of raw film texture, counterpointed use of music, and psychologically meandering situations and characters.

The track "The Long and Winding Road" is counterpointed by a romantic piano while on "Yesterday" Mina becomes "careful and respectful.

The golden hair of Margarete is now counterpointed with "your ashen hair Shulamith", and "he" now grabs his gun, and is.

The hearty and cheerful nature of the musical number is counterpointed as the children are marched off to their fate as the song ends, singing.

saying: "It's a typically melodramatic affair, Butler's squawking playing counterpointed by Brett Anderson's breastbeating emoting.

The serious action of the main plot is varied and counterpointed by comic material with the characters Sueno and Helga.

Revolutionary agitators, Holocaust refugees and sixties’ student protesters are counterpointed with artists and entrepreneurs in our own age of austerity.

Certainly they feed off each other's energy in counterpointed reverie, but the music goes beyond being merely spontaneous or made.

Oldman's poise and prestige are counterpointed by an ongoing scam whereby his friend Billy Whistler (Donald Sutherland).

Her portrayal of the Suffragettes in a pair of counterpointed 1909 poems makes a case both for and against their actions.

the podcast assuming his snarky remarks as he criticized the books, counterpointed by his Potter-fan guest's defense of the books, would be entertaining.

Synonyms:

concerted music; polyphonic music; polyphony;

Antonyms:

refrain; surrender; monophonic music; monophony;