Word: complementation
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Howe also felt that the course should not be rigidly divided into the areas of law, social psychology, and history, but rather should let these aspects of the problem complement each other throughout the year...
...that the Portuguese were peculiarly well equipped to bring modern civilization to these areas because of Portugal's partly African tradition and its almost tropical climate. "The Portuguese neglected the cold lands they discovered because of their inclination to find in tropical environments a Messlanic invitation to expand and complement their civilization...
Personally I believe the riots (not only in New York but in Rochester, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.) were an almost inevitable complement to the March on Washington. The March was the expression of the organized Negro community -- of those who found hope in the Movement and purpose in the words of ministers and civil rights leaders. The riots represented an outcry, defiant and general, of the outsiders, the genuinely alienated...
Minutewoman: Lovely, magnificent. (the sun rises) Look, so pretty in the sunlight. (breaking into a trot) The trees and river complement each other so perfectly. Why not build the damn roads someplace else? They could move some ugly stores...
...Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive them alternately as figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement on the retina. In his Union of the Four (at right), the red pigment throughout the painting is the same hue, despite what the eye sees...