foregrounds

Example Sentences

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A 35-year intimate survey of Catherine Opie’s never-before-shown photographs at Regen Projects in Hollywood foregrounds human connection.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 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