In the nineteen-fifties, the French film theorist and critic André Bazin wrote a series of influential articles on the history of film language in which the commonplace photographic measure of depth of field assumed an almost moral importance.
And when the accents waver, the actors falter and the dialogue sounds like soap opera on stilts, the landscape lends a measure of depth and grandeur, mutely imploring us to ignore the fuss in the foreground.
The addition of Umenyiora will provide the Giants' already fearsome defensive line with yet another dangerous pass rusher, providing a measure of depth that should not only keep it fresh but make things more difficult for opposing offensive lines.
It was the kind of reading that made a listener prize the details of Ravel's orchestration more than ever, both as a textbook demonstration of orchestral color and for giving this already vivid piano score a measure of depth and shading that Mussorgsky could never have achieved.
Yet he also, mostly with a pair of sad eyes, brought a measure of depth to even his most ridiculous roles, as when he played a Quebecois firefighter who has to foil a terrorist plot and save his children during a hockey game in the "Die Hard" cosplay "Sudden Death".
Objectives: Midlatency auditory-evoked potentials (MLAEPs) may provide an objective measure of depth of sedation.
Since perceived depth does not correspond directly with that predicted geometrically, we also used the scale of relative apparent depth derived through pairwise comparisons as an alternative measure of depth magnitude.
To accurately position in the third dimension (depth) we use the relative timing difference in charge collection on the anode and cathode, a sensitive measure of depth in the detector.
He leads many public opinion polls of the Republican presidential field, and holds a significant edge over his rivals in the Gallup Poll's "positive intensity" measure of depth of support.
Researchers have used keratocyte apoptosis after corneal collagen crosslinking as an indirect measure of depth and effectiveness of this procedure [ 20].
