(1) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
(2) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
(3) The paradox at the heart of the selfie is that it masquerades as a "candid" shot, taken without access to airbrushing or post-production, but in fact, a carefully posed selfie, edited with all the right filters, is a far more appealing prospect than a snatched paparazzo shot taken from a deliberately unflattering angle.
(4) The UK information commissioner, one Christopher Graham, has assured the BBC that respecters of history and truth have nothing, however, to fear: "All this talk about rewriting history and airbrushing embarrassing bits from your past – this is nonsense.
(5) The Tories hit back at Labour’s poster showing an airbrushed picture of Cameron, next to a slogan saying public spending would fall to 1930s levels.
(6) The commission published the parties' election accounts today, revealing everything from their transport costs to viral internet marketing campaigns and PR stunts to the bill for airbrushing their campaign posters.
(7) Feig also spoke in support of the actor after an airbrushed image of a slimmed-down McCarthy was used to promote The Heat in the UK.
(8) David Cameron must have sighed the biggest sigh of his political career when David Miliband was airbrushed out of the picture.
(9) Countries using major sport to burnish their image is not new but the latest trend towards countries using sporting events as an instrument of soft power and investing huge sums in using them as giant billboards to project an airbrushed image to the world feels different.
(10) They want the Coalition to be able to use another slogan – “only Labor increases taxes” – which airbrushes away the tax increases Abbott presided over.
(11) A few years ago, when she agreed to do a photospread in Vogue, she typically turned the assignment into an act of artistic provocation, posing stark, non-airbrushed, naked and - more shockingly still - refusing to wear a single lick of makeup.
(12) Now, rather than airbrushing out Chagos, the mandarins want to paint it green.
(13) For an airbrushed but nonetheless fascinating glimpse of the man himself see the autobiographical Performing Flea and Over Seventy.
(14) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
(15) In Exterminate All the Brutes Lindqvist suggests that we have airbrushed our past: "We do not want to remember.
(16) "Obviously, no Labour or Lib Dem working in parliament would want to airbrush out inconvenient truths about Michal Kaminski, especially just after the creation of the new Tory grouping," he said.
(17) A new storm is breaking.” United, under Van Gaal, give the impression they would like to airbrush Moyes from their history.
(18) There will be no half-full glasses; no stalagmites of loose change; no convention of shoes in a huddle under the bed, on which the duvet cover will rest as smooth as an airbrushed forehead; and the sheets will always match the pillowcases.
(19) "I think it is acceptable to, say, digitally remove a van, builder's skip or washing lines, but I wouldn't airbrush permanent features such as a road sign or electricity pylon."
(20) Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's vast portraits, which adorned facades up and down the capital, with his black dyed hair and wrinkles carefully airbrushed, were ripped from buildings.
Enhance
Definition:
(v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.
(v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.
(v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(3) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(4) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(5) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(6) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(7) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(8) LPS also abrogated the ability of recombinant interferon-gamma (r.IFN-gamma) to enhance macrophage larvicidal activity.
(9) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(10) Marked enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells was seen in the presence of as little as 0.3% thymic DC.
(11) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(12) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(13) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(14) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(15) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(16) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(17) Furthermore, H-7 enhanced the effect of thrombin on AA release.
(18) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
(19) Only candidacidal activity was enhanced in FCA-elicited peritoneal macrophages (median C. albicans killed 28% versus 16% for resident peritoneal macrophages, p less than 0.01).
(20) On the other hand, the limbic after-discharges to the hippocampal or amygdaloid stimulation were enhanced by Z. mioga as well as chlorpromazin, but they were inhibited by diazepam.