Word: complementing
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...eerie whale songs *seemed a natural complement to the otherworldly, mystical music of Hovhaness. He is one of the few composers today who has a distinctive, instantly identifiable style. His compositions stick to conservative harmonies, relying heavily on ostinato, and reveling in lush, big-scale orchestration. They are immensely colorful and oddly moving. And God Created Great Whales began with muttering string noises and a submarine roar on the drums, followed by leviathan trombones diving in and out of rushing violins. Finally the great cetaceans themselves appeared, via tape recording. They sang with an astounding range of tone and expressiveness...
...Easy Way. Operating with a full complement of U.S. hardware and a minimum of U.S. advisers and logistical support, ARVN units have employed their new-found mobility to the fullest. Saigon's armored task forces in Cambodia have roamed as far as the port of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville) in the south and Chup, site of Indochina's largest rubber plantation, in the north. Attacking the Chup plantation, whose 64,000 acres had become a haven for elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division, South Vietnamese Skyraiders reduced the latex plant to a smoking ruin. Trouble is, they...
...private light of the gods' unsurpassable estimation. But he loves men and the action of arms. When we see his desolation by the sea, his grief over Patroklos's death, we begin to realize that the virtue of the hand and the longing of the heart are the complement and paradoxically antagonistic passions which engender tragedy...
...find yin-and-yang everywhere is to err with the man who knowing that computers thought in only two positions (on/off, light dark, 1/0). concluded that all the world thought in complement. (The computer counts in binary, whereas we do it by decimals: anyone who doubts the superiority of the human mind may wonder. at this fact.) So let us drop the theme of vin-and-yang, except to quote the frontleaf and the backleaf...
...works of Degas with Tiepolo the Fogg could have contemporized the exhibit: Tiepolo's aloof world of the religious could have been viewed in comparison to Degas' off-stage world of the dancer. Degas' attempt to take the viewer backstage, to remove the dancer from her idealized position, would complement Tiepolo's pedestal art. A single color cannot evoke the vibrations that two juxtaposed complementary colors...