Merce remembered in sharp detail minor events in his life that had been hugely important in mine.
One of these was a portrait of two brothers; the brother in the foreground was in sharp detail, and the brother in the background was out of focus, merely a suggestion of a looming presence.
Literary types and their followers use it instead of illuminate, although the primary meaning has changed to delineate, "to bring out in sharp detail," a more intense form of "describe".
Bundled in two sweaters and a coat in his chilly, tiny apartment, an old photographer described in sharp detail his most cherished image of the war -- a young woman, bent under her burden of supplies, laboring up a steep rock face on the Ho Chi Minh trail.
The story is rooted in war and starts with war, and those scenes, at the start and, even more later on, are replete with mutilations and agonies, sprays and spurts of blood and cascades of human meat, seen in sharp detail and often shown in slow motion, which expresses a pleasure in staging and observing such grotesque and horrific violence — a pleasure that's immediate, extra-moral, and personal.
Forty years on, Shaul Ladany remembers the events of Munich in sharp detail.
In either mode, the artistic effects of panning enhance the shot and render the subject in sharp detail with blurred background.
The Hubble's dramatic images reveal in sharp detail the apparent aftermath of a head-on collision between two galaxies that left the larger one shaped like a wagon wheel.
Those events are described in sharp detail and include slamming screen doors to sneak out late.
His camera depicts, in sharp detail, bulging eyes, enraptured smirks, bodies flailing with a power that can only be described as otherworldly.
