(n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having started, as did Freud, from psychical traumatism P. Janet is not interested in subconscious but particularly studies the psychological deficiencies which traumatism causes or brings to the foreground.
(2) The 40-Hz SSR was averaged over trials and extracted from the composite event-related potential signal using narrow-band digital filtering, for continuous examination of latency and amplitude during the course of the period immediately preceding and following the foreground stimulus.
(3) Event-related potential and heart rate responses to the foreground stimulus were also affected by probability, intensity and session, but not in the same pattern.
(4) Many "photo-bombed" their opponents: rainbow-clad individuals leaped into the foreground as marriage equality opponents lined up snapshots.
(5) In the future, diseases caused by environmental problems and new life styles as a result of industrialization, urbanization and slum growth will move dramatically into the foreground.
(6) The first above all operate in the smaller respiratory tracts and stand in the foreground in the allergic bronchial asthma.
(7) Further, facilitation was greater when modality-matching probes were presented over foregrounds judged a priori to be more 'interesting' than 'dull' foregrounds.
(8) Also, the perception of foreground-background properties of competing displays determined which controlled forward vection, and this control was not tied to specific depth cues.
(9) Gradually adjusting to a summer evening's long shadows, you register that all those elements are held in place by a single, dead straight Roman road, hurtling away from the canvas's foreground to far-off mountains.
(10) There is a group in the foreground of pale-skinned people who in some ways represent the flight into Egypt – a woman with a swaddled baby, a bearded Joseph figure, a sinister child with a bow and arrow, and an even more sinister child battling a nasty goat next to a spilled water vessel.
(11) The mountain is haughty and proud, an enormous glacier fills the valley in front and in the foreground – giving scale to the scene and a sense of infeasibility to the task facing the men inside them – is a little collection of tents.
(12) Alternative interpretations of startle probe modulation by a pictorial foreground were tested: Either reflex amplitude varies as a function of modality-determined attention allocation, or, regardless of probe modality, reflex amplitude varies with the emotional valence of the foreground content.
(13) How far George Miller’s movie foregrounds the role of women, even to the subordination of its apparent hero, has surprised many, Theron included.
(14) Pre-morbid sexual development is not typical, but the disturbances of contact are in the foreground.
(15) Today, not the pathological changes, which have dominated the scene of pathogenesis for analgesic nephropathies are in the foreground of investigative interest, but rather the biochemical interactions of analgesics or their metabolites in the renal cell and prospective epidemiologic studies.
(16) In adults, the hypertensive syndrome is very distinct, while in children, the hydrocephalic-hypertensive syndrome comes to the foreground.
(17) It is shown that hypertensive glomerulopathy triggered by high pressure and postglomerular interstitial fibrosis with tubular atrophy are in the foreground of pathologic changes in decompensated benign nephrosclerosis, whereas the preglomerular vessel network is most often affected in secondary malignant nephrosclerosis.
(18) The subjects also made direct judgments of foreground truncation, revealing that foreground truncation decreased as focal length decreased, but that this decrease did not account for the considerable expansion in distance perception.
(19) A man in the foreground has a red star on his T-shirt.
(20) Contrasting findings were obtained in a third experiment, in which infants were habituated to a partly hidden surface that stood in front of a background so that its edges were visible: Infants gave no evidence of perceiving the foreground surface as continuous behind the occluder.
Landscape
Definition:
(n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
(n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
(n.) The pictorial aspect of a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(3) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(4) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
(5) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(6) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(7) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(8) On our approach march to K2 base camp, we crossed this wild, beautiful, lonesome and very powerful landscape.
(9) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(10) In a political landscape with a strong hard left and far right, Macron faces the challenge of trying to win a parliamentary majority for his fledgling political movement En Marche!
(11) They may have revisited the subjects of their earlier paintings – landscape, fire, water, the seasons – but they did so with urgent vigour.
(12) It's said that in Wyoming, a state twice the size of England with fewer than 600,000 residents, you can look in three different directions and see three different landscapes.
(13) Pupils to be taught about the role of humans in climate change, and how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate, and how humans depend on the effective functioning of natural systems.
(14) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(15) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(16) Money should not shape the outcome; this sacred and ancient landscape is irreplaceable and unique for so many reasons, we cannot afford to get this wrong.
(17) Dr Atl is better known for his work as a landscape painter who portrayed the horizons of the valley of Mexico.
(18) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(19) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
(20) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.