One goal for future work is to extend these analyses so that they also incorporate other aspects of semantically relevant vs. irrelevant information in addition to the face/non-face distinction we have used here, such as when a character uses social cues to direct attention to a semantically relevant object.
As a crafty lawyer, he manufactured a face-saving distinction between teachers and their union leaders to create the false impression that it wasn't teachers he was against, but their union, a distinction lost on an enraged public, before which he continually waved his red flag to goad and manipulate it into doing his bidding.
Six companies face the dubious distinction of winning a Public Eye Award for "the worst corporate offences against human rights and the environment", according to the organisers, Greenpeace Switzerland and the Berne Declaration, a Swiss economic justice campaign group.
At one meditation session, he held a contest for the ugliest girl a young member with a boil on her face won the distinction.
In films, people tear themselves away from one another weeping, watching their loved ones' disappearing faces until all distinction is lost.
The results may be taken as a slap in the face to the distinction-abolitionists, yet such individuals might take heart in them in that there is no implicit hierarchy in what emerges as the brain-based hallmark of neurological versus psychiatric conditions; they both involve the functionally interesting parts of the brain, it is just that they are, quite subtly, different.
Men, however, made a distinction between face and figure, depending on their intent.
"The face will have more distinction with a cascade of stone, rather than steps," he said.
Dressed in a gray pinstriped suit and a purple tie, eyeglasses framing a face of no special distinction, Mr. Black looks less like a guy who tells jokes for a living than a midcareer accountant nursing a peptic ulcer.
Others noted that committees of the International Astronomical Union, which have debated for years about whether Pluto and its cousins are bona fide "planets," now face the starkest possible distinction.
Some authors take such evidence at face value, drawing a distinction at the ontological level: a good inventory of the world ought to include "negative" events and actions along with ordinary, "positive" ones [Lee 1978; Vermazen 1985; De Swart 1996; Przepiórkowski 1999; Higginbotham 2000; Mossel 2009].
