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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.
You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.
I've always been obsessed with contrast in records, and using harsher elements to make the quieter ones more powerful.
When my sister moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood, I was interested in Hollywood. Quite a contrast, right?
'More & More' is animated, full of confidence, even cute; in contrast, the dancing is incredibly powerful and energetic.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
The contrast of being in the spotlight when you're very young and then suddenly not can be really bad for your mental state.
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
I love that tension between machine sounds and organic sounds, and also the contrast between abrasive sounds and soft sounds.
I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.
I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.
While in 'Komban' I played the mother of Karthi, a relatively quiet character, the mother role in 'Kanchana 2' was a stark contrast.
I'm a bit of a vault of secrets. I'm a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.
Washington, D.C., could learn a few budget lessons from Florida. The contrast between our state and the nation's capital is remarkable.
For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.
To recover from workouts I typically drink a 20-gram protein shake, float in the pool for 15 minutes, then do a hot-and-cold tub contrast soak.
I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.
My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.
Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it.
My character in 'Ivan Thanthiran' is in stark contrast to my role in 'U Turn.' Here, I play Asha, a hard working girl belonging to a middle-class background.
There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.
Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.
I've spent a lot of time in Inverness, playing gigs and on a radio tour. I like heading up there because it is very tranquil and a contrast to how busy London is.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found.
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.