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    1. Once through the tunnel, we eat, the sound of rain hitting the barge above our heads a musical counterpoint to the chatter of the crew members and the cutlery on the china


    2. Mickey’s unsubtle comments to Sheila, with the usual counterpoint provided by Kev, was ignorable


    3. Andy added a counterpoint noting the absence of any trace of the missing man


    4. ’ She said, her hands darting about in counterpoint to her words


    5. Kaitlyn's voice, a full whisper at first, rose to harmony and then into counterpoint with the music


    6. A small creature in the underbrush twittered in musical counterpoint to the tune, but his eyes weren’t sharp enough to pick it out in the light-and-shadows playing in there


    7. But I Am is patient, a counterpoint to your lack of the same


    8. Jason wondered about the current intense propaganda push, for instance, the use of children as pawns in a tick-tick ad as though the bomb of global warming was about to go off, or the fierce attempts to force children (and parents!) to see the Gore film An Inconvenient Truth, without proper scientific counterpoint


    9. Outside, the bright sun gleaming down from a cloudless sky was like a glaring counterpoint to the thunderstorm that was raging inside her head


    10. As a counterpoint to Zinn’s selective imagery, I present below a citation from a scholarly source

    11. By then he was familiar enough with the music to improvise bass harmonies in counterpoint to the melody, and as he found himself administering to a pretty young elfess, he sang to her joyously and wordlessly, simply using various vowels to play with the notes


    12. They were a counterpoint to the white even though they were not yet words that spoke but those that listened, to his blood, to his mind, to the snow-raven’s song


    13. Ralph glances at the knife, even more distant than it was before and curses his own slowness as bright stars and blackness dance before his vision, a counterpoint to the pain which threatens to overcome him


    14. As more and more birds vanished away, long wings beating as a counterpoint to the silence, leaving only the space beyond them, he realised he was looking at clouds


    15. They fly towards the group and sweep overhead, their high cries providing a counterpoint to the trees’ music


    16. Counterpoint, United States, page 19


    17. The signs offer an interesting thematic counterpoint to the


    18. As a counterpoint to the 802


    19. the perfect counterpoint to the classical beauty of the rose marble


    20. Counterpoint (book 1 of series) is being edited to contain the best of Fire Ice (book 2 of series) and form just the one book

    21. Almost a counterpoint to the erection thundering between my legs


    22. "Shit-shit-shit," I thought in counterpoint


    23. Well, I would have if I knew what counterpoint meant


    24. Though McCoy and Spock were wearing blue, their counterpoint positions reminded


    25. ‘’While I can understand the point of view of your astronomers, I don’t see here any counterpoint from Captain Forster, nor did I receive any directly from her up to now


    26. Somewhere within him, as if a strange counterpoint, Beth Johnson-Angelo was also offered up, and then Father Theophane


    27. There was Swapan Dasgupta as the premier right-wing voice and someone who had an inside track to Modi; the liberal historian and public intellectual Ramachandra Guha was among the rare breed who spoke as well as he wrote; Manini Chatterjee of the Telegraph offered a punchy counterpoint to Swapan’s Modinama; P


    28. Their music stood in stark counterpoint to the events which were unfolding


    29. Jeff, in marked counterpoint, was quite the opposite


    30. But eventually he and Hookhand end up in an enthusiastically drunken conversation about the finer points of tuning theory, counterpoint, and hook maintenance

    31. Serving as a counterpoint to the happiness was Istasica Forest


    32. To the Ailats, storm-time and calm-time are the point and counterpoint of life’s


    33. The stories she told me about horses were a counterpoint to the other stories she’d told me about her Catholic upbringing


    34. When I wouldn’t let this idea go, he wrote me a long, powerful e-mail that not only challenged my strategy but, as a counterpoint to some of the hard, deeply psychological opinions I’d been hearing in group, offered one of his own


    35. But I’m meeting him thrust for thrust, a perfect counterpoint


    36. Ford leaped to his rescue, hazarding “counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the… er…” Hefloundered too, but Arthur was ready again


    37. “Hmmmm,” he said, “counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor…” He considered this for a moment, and


    38. 11) I heard counterpoint singing and


    39. To produce works of musical art, he must first learn to move his fingers on some instrument as rapidly as those who have reached the highest perfection; next, he must know how in former times polyphonic music was written, must study what are called counterpoint and fugue; and, furthermore, he must learn orchestration, i


    40. he may take another man's themes and work them up into definite forms by means of counterpoint and fugue; or, what is commonest of all, he may compose fantastic music, i

    1. Skeptics also raise counterpoints to positive a priori arguments


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