In recent years, the GOP has successfully rearticulated its extraordinarily successful race-baiting "Southern Strategy" for the 21st century, with Muslims joining African Americans as the foil to draw fearful white votes.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, her buoyant, antic foil, hopes to draw Mrs. Merkel into deeper commitments to an economic government for the currency zone, once again making France and Germany the motor of European integration that the two countries have been since their reconciliation after World War II.
He is part filter, part foil for nimbly drawn characters, such as UN police officer Terry White, a former deputy sheriff from Florida who begins an affair with Celestin's wife as well as almost every sentence with "What you got to understand is …" This is a gripping, fiercely intelligent novel by a writer in full command of his talents.
As for the other characters in the novel, they exist mainly as sketchily drawn foils to Julian, who can shed light on his past behavior or goad him into action.
Contacting the upper side of the detector was done by drawing a line of silver-conductive varnish from the foil to the aluminum case.
A pencil drawing by Vincent Nardone titled "Another Twist... Another Turn... Another Day" focuses on the same sense of repetition, Mr. Nardone draws a massive roller coaster, but as foils to its path, he draws in several hot air balloons.
The second half initially followed a similar pattern and, after Salah was foiled by Friedel, Naughton drew a fine save from Yann Sommer.
But he's now got an effective foil in young Matt Taberner, who draws a good defender and on Saturday night kicked two goals to go with his season-high 13 possessions.
Mr. Huntsman, the former Utah governor who is so far behind the rest of the field in national polls that he was excluded from an ABC debate on Saturday in Iowa, missed a chance to sharply define himself thanks to the high profile foil of Mr. Gingrich, who drew a large news media contingent.
Basically, a six-item target-present lineup is conceptualized as five random draws from the foil distribution and one random draw from the target distribution; a six-item target-absent lineup is conceptualized as six random draws from the foil distribution (all statistically independent of each other in the simplest case).
In this elegant, monochromatic installation, Mr. Pearson's silvery metal relief sculptures and solarized photographs make an excellent foil for Mr. Wood's painted and drawn still lifes.
