(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.
Spotlight
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Example Sentences:
(1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(2) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
(3) While Greece struggled to find a new leader, the spotlight turn dramatically to Italy.
(4) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(5) The spotlight metaphor seems inappropriate for visual attention in a dynamic environment.
(6) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(7) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(8) HSBC and Standard Chartered, two UK-based banks who often manage to avoid the bonus spotlight, will also feel the heat after paying out millions to US regulators for breaches of the rules.
(9) William’s trip will put a spotlight on his father’s uneasy relationship with China and raise questions about why Charles has yet to make an official visit to the country.
(10) The fact is that we are almost always surprised by what candidates look like once they are under the spotlight.
(11) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(12) The video filmed by a witness , which propelled the case into the global spotlight, showed Scott was running away with his back turned when Slager, then an officer with the North Charleston police department, opened fire.
(13) Six consecutive days of glamour will provide young designers with the perfect opportunity to make an impact, and at the opening event of LFW on Friday morning Natalie Massanet, the chairman of the British Fashion Council, told members of the industry that the "global spotlight" was now on London.
(14) "Frankfurt tends to pick those who've not been in the spotlight [as guest of honour] and Turkey for sure has not been in the spotlight for its culture and literature, but for political reasons," says publisher Müge Gürsoy Sökmen, one of the fair's organisers who has also chaired a PEN committee on Turkish writers in prison.
(15) Now I’m left wondering what has happened on his own journey that leaves him now screaming at a homeless single mother.” Wales added that the “spotlight” on Stratford must be turned into a “floodlight” on London’s housing crisis.
(16) A Nato summit in Chicago next month will place the spotlight firmly on Afghanistan and the alliance's continuing financial as well as military contributions to the country.
(17) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(18) British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations Read more Opening up right now are big opportunities for women’s sport and its sponsors.
(19) For months, Tom McCarthy’s journalistic thriller Spotlight has been at the head of the pack – further bolstered by its recent Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations.
(20) Photograph: Multnomah County Sandra Anderson was thrust into the national spotlight during the final 24 hours of the standoff as she refused to surrender and made bold statements during live-streamed phone calls as the FBI closed in on the holdouts .