9 sentences with “contrasted”

The darkness of the night contrasted with the brightness of the stars.

The extravagance of the clothing contrasted with the sobriety of the surroundings.

The delicate white flower contrasted wonderfully with the dark foliage of the forest.

Gretchen was smiling, showing off her whitest teeth that contrasted with her golden skin.

From its inception, socialism was contrasted with individualism and egoism, of the selfish and self-centred pursuit of wealth and power.

This unregulated, traditional, violence-based system of unregulated "law", from which the modern Spanish word "feudo" derives, contrasted with the written codes of Roman law that still survived after the fall of Rome itself.

English freedom gained greater meaning and coherence for whites when they contrasted their status with that of the unfree class of black slaves in British America. African slavery provided whites in the colonies with a racial bond and a shared identity.

Absolutism contrasted with medieval and Renaissance-era forms of monarchy in which the king was simply first among equals, maintaining a formal feudal authority over his elite nobles, but often being merely their equal, or even inferior, in terms of royal authority and power.

In turn, they experienced the West first-hand when Russian armies fought against Napoleon's forces and then during the occupation of France. There, the sheer backwardness of Russia contrasted with the dynamism and vitality they discovered in French society (especially in Paris itself).