Contrasting meaning

They were in full bloom, their bright yellow blossoms contrasting starkly against the soft green of new grass.

The warm sun had eaten most of the snow from the roadway, leaving a contrasting black ribbon, in places still snow-patched from last night's covering.

deep, and of the furnaces where they melted copper, tin and gold, are very numerous; their weapons of a hard bronze, their pots (one of which weighs 75 ib), and their melted and polished bronze and golden decorations testify to a high development of artistic feeling and industrial skill, strangely contrasting with the low level reached by their earthenware.

48), contrasting greatly with what we have seen in Aplysia.

in January 1387, and his reign was a period of peace and order, thus contrasting sharply with the long and calamitous reign of his father.