contrapuntal
adjective
of or relating to counterpoint.
contrapuntally
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a word derived from
contrapuntal.
Example Sentences
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“With fixed intensity and supple quicksilver emotional changes,” she wrote, “Deadwyler rises to the occasion as Mamie, delivering a quiet, centralizing performance that works contrapuntally with the story’s heaviness, its profundity and violence.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
The internet is a great way for fans to party contrapuntally.
From Economist ● Mar. 13, 2018
The opera begins madcap, with the servants’ exits and dizzying greetings of “enchanted” in complex ensembles nearly impossible to contrapuntally untangle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
The right hand, meanwhile, darts and clicks with a mouse, contrapuntally, so frantic that carpal-tunnel syndrome and tendinitis are common side effects.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
They revelled in fugue, and even danced contrapuntally.
From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Dudley Buck
