And the tintypes, with their sepia tones, blurred peripheries and ghostly aura, take the cowboys back to the era when such photographs were taken by traveling commercial photographers.
The romantic abjection of the second embarrassed me, and then the boundary blurred: Du Bois's scholarly tone was tinged with abjection; Fitzgerald's frankness with self-hatred.
His painting became famous for its extreme softness, its "morbidezza", meaning that the edges are fused and the tones are blurred.
Inevitably, many of the clear theses articulated in the 1973 tract are toned down, blurred or modified or disappear under mountains of facts in the larger work.
One of the artist's deliberately blurred paintings in gray tones, it depicts Prof. Joseph Zander, a well-known gynecologist, and his wife, Charlotte, in a packed room at a medical convention.
Over an alien procession of sonorous percussion, tart winds and tremulous strings that blur into quarter-tones, the soprano Susan Narucki trilled, ululated and sang in French and an invented tongue.
But what really stood out in every work, no matter the tone, was exuberant dancing, occasionally blurred by exhaustion yet distinguished by willful, effervescent classicism.
But a conference-ending talk and conversation with AL Gore brought the more pressing issues of saving the world to the front and blurred the subtle tilt toward SIlicon Valley in tone if not substance.
The still-lifes vary from bright to crepuscular in tone, from crisply limned to almost illegibly blurred, and, in texture, from creamy to arid.
"Burning" has its own tone and logic, and they're borrowed — and scrambled and blurred — from the soaps and the pulps.
