juxtapositions in English

noun
1
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
the juxtaposition of these two images
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1. Chiasmus works best when the juxtapositions express or combine knowledge, comedy and wit

2. Synonyms for Antinomies include paradoxes, juxtapositions, oddities, oxymorons, mistakes, error, irony, nonsense, quandaries and ambiguity

3. A sudden or unusual sight: "[The designer's] indoor-outdoor reversals and juxtapositions call forth a Magritte Apparition beneath a Miami moon" (Herbert Muschamp)

4. A sudden or unusual sight: "[The designer's] indoor-outdoor reversals and juxtapositions call forth a Magritte Apparition beneath a Miami moon" (Herbert Muschamp).

5. 1997, Daniel Price, Without a Woman to Read: Toward the Daughter in Postmodernism: [ …] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those Bouncings.

6. [Dyja] boldly Anatomizes New York in a phenomenally intricate and revelatory web of provocative juxtapositions…A dynamic, passionately knowledgeable, surprising, and gutsy chronicle of a world-shaping city and humanity itself in all its paradoxical wonder

7. ‘Beyond these Accretions and intentional change, the space, the vistas, the juxtapositions and potential paths generated by the new building are probably the greatest difference.’ ‘War strips us of the later Accretions of civilization and lays bare the primal man in each of us.’

8. The relationship between the Apollonian and Dionysian juxtapositions is apparent, Nietzsche claimed in The Birth of Tragedy, in the interplay of Greek Tragedy: the tragic hero of the drama, the main protagonist, struggles to make order (in the Apollonian sense) of his unjust and chaotic (Dionysian) Fate, though he dies unfulfilled in the end.For the audience of such a drama, Nietzsche claimed