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It’s part of a broader change in Nolan’s telling: His Odysseus has far fewer sexual entanglements than Homer’s, keeping his devotion to Penelope more firmly in the foreground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The pianos are always muted, the drums all sound like they're being played next door, and the orchestra is buried deep in the mix to foreground Abrams' voice.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Across the Ages” reveals a culture—omnivorous, regenerative, endlessly adaptable—whose dynamic abstract artworks resist any fixed sense of beginning or end, above or below, foreground or background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Whether the seeking a mysterious territory of Dryland in "Waterworld" or fleeing from all northern latitudes in "The Day After Tomorrow," pop culture foregrounds the notion that one can somehow "run away" from climate change.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024
At the same time, many new diagnostic methods and early-intervention therapies have been developed in recent years, which foregrounds the need to identify more risk factors for the disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023
It is impossible to ignore that it foregrounds it in any production because it says explicitly: must cast disabled actors in those roles.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
Pas de deux, solos and small groupings follow with almost imperceptible transitions as Carter’s lighting obscures and foregrounds the dancers.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
The repeated “He,” has a sarcastic tone, and the hysteron proteron in the second sentence foregrounds this notion on which the argument turns: Is pride really a bad thing?
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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