While much of the building's mass matches the height of the surrounding buildings, this tower ACTS as an architectural counterpoint, one that distinguishes the museum from its counterparts.
The Lisbon summit will thus be an explicit counterpoint to the China-Africa summit of November 2006, when China cemented its new relationship with a promise of yet more money.
Mr Pierre gives us a cast of Stoic Berliners as a counterpoint to this decadence.
Then she was gone: her hair a golden blur, the click of her heels on the stone path a counterpoint to the rumbling suitcase wheels behind her.
Now there's another kind of counterpoint called "Free counterpoint" where it's highly independent lines are sounding but they're not imitating one another.
Somehow their expressions - of desire, irritation, indifference, devotion and anxiety, all arranged in delicate counterpoint - achieve an otherworldly eloquence.
But here's a final counterpoint to anti-circumcision you may not have considered.
The clients - a couple with active children - wanted a holiday home that would serve as a strong counterpoint to their primary residence in the city.
Let's remember the lesson: Skepticism is a crucial counterpoint to positivity, and it's not the same thing as negativity, which destroys rather than nurtures.
He was a beady-eyed prober, like the foxes he loved or his favourite whippet, Pluto, whose long-legged grace often appeared in his paintings as counterpoint to some fatter, redder human shape.
Routine, as a reasonable counterpoint to corporate gene, has played an important role during this process.
Sixteen bars there, again, and a perfect example of free counterpoint.
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