Sentence examples for blur against from inspiring English sources

The second image to be seen is out of focus, a pink/brown blur against a sea green background.

But then came the Britpop War, a rivalry largely invented by the British press that set Blur against the Manchester group Oasis and drew on divisive references that Britons hold dear: setting Blur as the middle-class southerners against Liam and Noel Gallagher, the working-class northern brothers behind Oasis.

For those of us who had fallen for the hype pitting (a touch disingenuously) 90s bands Blur against Pulp, and ended up favouring a certain Jarvis Cocker, this relatively rare outing for "just Damon, chatting away quite winningly" was a very honest hour.

The displays of ineptitude and of racism — the bungled response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; the absurd evenhandedness of comments on Nazis and anti-Fascist protesters in Charlottesville; the "shithole" affair — blur against the general backdrop of abnormalities occurring at a pace faster than we can fully countenance.

AThis is one of the best moments in all of sport, the last five or ten predawn minutes in a duck blind when you can hear the ducks and sometimes make them out as a gray, spectral blur against the brightening sky.

Or: "With his eyes wide open in the dusk, through the blowing snow he could see their silhouettes blurring against the stands of spruce".

I like him because he's quite jarring rhythmically, and that's what I was always trying to do in Blur: go against grooves.

Cornell works well against a big, unruly band — waves of guitar noise crusted with overtones, bass lines that resonate so heavily that they blur — but against Timbaland's beats things get confusing.

A screech tore through the room, the cage flew open, and the thing was an airborne blur slamming against the cheap plywood panel of the bedroom door, even as Daria and I fought to force it shut.

Coachella has pulled off plenty of buzz-worthy reunions over the years -- Blur, Rage Against the Machine, the Pixies -- but Indio might be staging one of the biggest on-stage moments in hip-hop since Tupac (virtually) rose from the dead.

Reynolds and Gainsborough Blotted and Blurred one against the other & Divided all the English World between them".