to counterpose

Examples

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• Hitchens counterposes science and literature, which he celebrates, to religion, which he despises.

  Academic text (2008)

• But the dialectic of struggle and achievement, which is the burden of his recitation, required Wagner to counterpose composers with each other, allowing one to be overcome in his limitations or superseded in achievement by a later one.

  Academic text (1997)

• The narrator continues to counterpose feelings and her polite, dissimulated response:

  Academic text (1994)

• I think it's very intriguing to see this because we normally counterpose Marx's theory of alienation and Durkheim's theory of enemy.

• The next time I saw her was at a setting equally sublime—Niagara Falls—and perhaps in consequence, when I think of her in retrospect, I always counterpose the beauties of nature.

  Blog text (25)

• The selfishness of elders, and of those in power or with riches, is counterposed to the interests of youth in the morality of society as a whole (see also Auslander 1993; Niehaus 1998; Argenti 1998).

  Academic text (2000)

• Thus the ideology of Ecuadorean nationalism radiating from the capital has been counterposed by movements of indigenous nationalism which construct new identities that contest the national rewritings of native identities and native history.

  Academic text (1990)

• The artist chose to counterpose bright colors against dark backgrounds for dramatic effect.

• In her debate, she will counterpose the arguments for renewable energy with those for fossil fuels.

• The film counterposes scenes of war with moments of peace to highlight the impact of conflict.

Synonyms

J

to juxtapose

vsto counterpose

18 9.0

To put two things next to each other to compare them

sets items in opposition to stress difference instead of mere physical placement

C

to counterpoise

vsto counterpose

1 9.8

To balance something by acting against it

uses opposition to show contrast rather than to create balance or stability

C

to contradistinguish

vsto counterpose

• Formal

9.9

To show how one thing is different by comparing it with another

places items in opposition to emphasize difference rather than neutral comparison

How Contrasting

to oppose

∞ 2.9

to challenge

• Formal

552 4.3

to counterpose

1 7.9

to contrast

86 2.7

to compare

932 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology