英:['kaʊntəpəʊs]
美:['kaʊntəˌpoʊz]
英:['kaʊntəpəʊs]
美:['kaʊntəˌpoʊz]
counter- + -pose (as in compose)
The first known use of counterpose was in 1594
1 Of course, it’s unproblematic that Scranton might have lobbied for one thing on behalf of former company, JP Morgan, and could push for counterposed legislation under his new employer, Romney.
2 As in Paris, Northern Virginia’s wealth is counterposed against the relative poverty of Prince George’s County in Maryland and the parts of D.C. east of the Anacostia.
3 The Obama administration has long used the fact of blacksite CIA torture as a benchmark against which to counterpose itself to the Bush administration in terms of human rights abuses.
4 What holds the earth swinging in space is first, the great dynamic attraction to the sun, and then counterposing assertion of independence, singleness, which is polarized in the moon.
5 Things are what we in our own thought counterpose to ourselves who think them.
6 “I knew something strange was going on in the country and I wanted to counterpose that to what the country had wanted to be and in a certain case was in its beginnings,” he says.
7 The Teamsters were unpleased with what UPS counterposed.
8 Rather, he counterposed abstraction to what he called “the concrete”, while marrying the modern to the primitive.
9 Much of the story line at the beginning involved “counterposing older people and younger people,” Mr. Freedman said.
10 Camel is an excellent counterpose to the slouched forward position we often assume.
11 To Watson and Crick, the double-helix model of DNA—with two complementary “yin-yang” strands counterposed against each other—instantly suggested a mechanism for replication.
12 Malick's counterposes the sharply drawn Mr. O'Brien with a shadowy sketch of his wife.
13 It’s a way of inserting his own identity into the enduring modernist conversation, of course, and of counterposing a humane, individual gesture to rigid bureaucratic categories.
14 The two directors counterpose images of destruction - the charred remains of an apartment block, a herd of cows sinking in a field destroyed by bombing - with everyday scenes of companionship and love.
15 To the fighting "Holy Alliances" of the governments, we counterpose the brotherhood of the free spirits of the world!
16 Madhuri Shekar’s 2014 play weighs and counterposes those two ideas of love while spooning out a tale of family, tradition, generational culture clash and food.
17 In contrast to Wife Guys like Tripp, the "Wife Didn't Approve" guy — or Anti-Wife Guy, as I call them — defines his identity as counterposed to his wife.
18 The stereotypes that the phrase "housewife" recalls — manicured lawns, whiteness, nuclear families like in "Leave it to Beaver" — may seem counterposed to liberal values, emblematic of a reactionary ideal of an idyllic American past.
19 But Akuffo, while welcoming such a step, said it should not be "counterposed" to the ICC in Europe: "Justice is justice," she said.
20 Lust counterposes the children’s genteel hiking trips and war games with the atrocities Karnau dispassionately documents, drawing both narrators’ segments to emphasize visual details over their context.