foregrounding

Foregrounding is the practice of making something stand out from the surrounding words or images.

If more foregrounding was included, Emily could have easily got away with being longer than its 70 minutes.

This foregrounding of the narrator is pushed a stage further in the stories which followed.

This allows the collection to present a critical look at what has also been forgotten in the foregrounding of the year 1948.

As the definition of foregrounding indicates, these are relative concepts.

Or the idea of painting itself, with its embarrassing foregrounding of technical ability?

Foregrounding, then, elicits a more immediate, vivid, and personal response from a reader.

Foregrounding, for Hasan, is contrast with respect to the norms of the text.

Foregrounding is multifaceted and is not a property of one given linguistic structure.

E.E.: How important is the foregrounding of female sexuality in your work?

Surrealism was self-consciously 'figural' in its foregrounding of the visual.

Needless to say, a reader need not be consciously aware of responding to foregrounding in order for this effect to occur.

Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question: what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way?

Certainly, in its foregrounding of its setting, "The Facades" fits the bill.

Foregrounding beauty and aesthetic experience, the exhibition also used the other meaning of the title to encourage questioning and debate.

Tolkien recognised the importance of She to his own fantasy works, especially in its foregrounding of a fictional history and narrative.

Sexual openness and bawdiness have always been part of burlesque, but the foregrounding of those aspects is a very recent development.

The concepts of deviation, prominence, and foregrounding may be given an individual, as well as a frequential interpretation.

The special effects were blurred and made people feel queasy, and the foregrounding of all that spectacle squashed the film’s ability to tell a story.

As the Joyce example shows, this foregrounding is not limited to the more obvious poetic devices, such as metaphor and alliteration.

Despite their generic differences, however, both could loosely be termed 'women's films' in their foregrounding of female characters and women's issues.

This foregrounding of media places the self as "a loose, transitory combination of media consumption choices."

Literary texts possess distinctive properties that include foregrounding (although further research will perhaps refine our conception of these properties).

Foregrounding the themes of sadism and brain washing, in this version, the happy ending of Shakespeare's play thus takes on a disturbing irony.

What's happened since has been the foregrounding of spin: today, the same media that are propagandizing us inform us exactly how we are being propagandized.