All that was made indistinct by distance.
Where once the point of CGI in cinema might have been to produce images of crystalline, almost architecturally detailed clarity, now its future seems to lie in smudging, smearing and making indistinct.
It could be metaphorical: a Porsche blunted and made indistinct by this soft-focus miasma.
But the explosive expansion in capability of which we are in the midst has made things indistinct.
The copious accommodation of ethnic non-whites following the 1965 Immigration Act has only layered over that older question, and made it indistinct.
"Girls!" Through the tinted windows in the back of the GMC, I could make out three indistinct black shapes.
Mr. Cope played trebly, serrated chords all at the same crunching volume and sang in much the same way: an abstracted monotone shout, mixed low, to make him sound indistinct.
And it sounds as if this band has inherited some of Deerhoof's anti-production too: Sam Scranton's bass drum like a tabloid headline; Aaron With's trebly guitar and dry-sounding vocals, mixed low enough to make the words indistinct; keyboards and electronics (from Mark Cartwright) used in nontraditional ways, sudden surges of ensemble sound that push everything into the red.
DIPGs have indistinct borders and may contain areas of varying tumor activity, normal grey and/or white matter, edema, and necrosis, making it difficult to identify a region that best characterizes the tumor.
Otherwise, only two indistinct plaques make reference to the horrors that took place there, and three so-called Stolpersteine (bronze "stumbling stones") set into the ground make reference to individual Jews who were deported from the site.
Since the article wasn't widely seen here, and since Pynchon's features were too indistinct to make him recognizable on the checkout line at Zabar's, he might have viewed the damage as strictly symbolic.
