Instead, a serpentine spout of froth from a breaking wave hovers in the foreground like a misty spirit.
Viewed from behind, one in the foreground hovers off the ground just after executing a shot, as his opponent, close to the wall in a balletic posture, awaits the rebound.
One source, Mr. Minutaglio reports, said that if the attorney general ever sat for a portrait, it should be rendered in the manner of Rembrandt's "Evangelist Matthew" with Mr. Gonzales as "the mostly hidden, gauzy figure hovering behind the more clearly depicted and important-looking man in the foreground" and "leaning in to murmur in that man's ear".
The Turkish question rarely figures in the foreground of European debate today, yet its spectre hovers over discussions of "European identity", "immigration" and the "Muslim question".
The dam is rarely in the foreground of Hessler's narrative, but it always hovers nearby, an all-too-concrete symbol of the larger transience of life and travel.
Often, in the foreground, one saw a sort of pileup of faceless humanity, while in the background there hovered a Greater Power — an angel, perhaps, or just a sort of milky miasma, suggestive of mystery and the soul.
Muted in the foreground sings.
In the foreground, "Spider Couple".
Pink flowers in the foreground.
The camera in the foreground.
