contrapuntal unresolved Bakhtinian symphony of cultural voices and positions

the harmonic or contrapuntal, which typified the supposed weakness and decadence of French tradition

The manoir had once been the writer’s home, and she found herself in some modest contrapuntal dance with him.

The same holds for that other contrapuntal peak in twentieth-century generational warfare: May 1968, when bourgeois parents and bourgeois children found themselves ‘on opposite sides of the barricade’

Her willed softness, her inner seriousness or earnestness, her strength, her beauty, muted and careful now in her anxiety not to lose me yet, made the pleasure of being with her noble, contrapuntal, and difficult in that one had to live up to it and understand it and protect it

It's the contrapuntal tension between

the old super-pub with its sticky chandeliers and sodden carpet, its contrapuntal rock videos and the thick bank of dole-quaffing fruit machines

tapped out in contrapuntal rhythms

It is a passage as modern, as contrapuntally abstract, as Resnais's Muriel, or the finale of Antonioni's The Passenger.

In the everyday Bresson uses contrapuntal sound not for editorializing, but to reinforce the cold reality. The soundtrack consists primarily of natural sounds: wheels creaking, birds chirping, wind howling.