The harmony is, in places, arrestingly thick and hazy, the layering of motifs engagingly contrapuntal.

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The contrapuntal strategy is to own airlines like AMR and Continental, beneficiaries of lower kerosene quots.

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Many of these properties last year moved in contrapuntal trajectories that were unexpected by most professional money managers.

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All seemed well until the musicians reached a section marked by contrapuntal rhythms.

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The new building's sleek three-story exterior reflected the sunlight, its irregularly spaced glass panels suggesting contrapuntal rhythms against a steady beat of steel.

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Wonderfully contrapuntal bits of green and aqua punctuate the back side.

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If the market is willing to pay 40 times earnings for Gillette, Coca-Cola and Pfizer, maybe airlines are a great contrapuntal play on the new Nifty Fifty.

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Poet Bianca Spriggs crafted a contrapuntal work -- a three-part piece in which the reader can view the left column as one poem, the right column as another poem, and both columns together as a third poem.

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His political vision is, literally, visual: filming aboard a ship and in various ports of call, evoking relevant historical landmarks and artifacts, watching a family work out its domestic policy, Godard offers images that are multifaceted, even contrapuntal.

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The two Niagaras wink at one another across the gorge, the contrapuntal faces of globalism: on the Canadian side, the monotony of our worldwide monoculture, the proliferation of malls and brands and franchises proclaiming globalism's intent to make every town look the same, from Benares to Boise.

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