And it was these awful poets in performance who made him feel that there was something wrong with the mere framing of verse, the sound of it to the ear, that put people in a false frame of mind.
Motives of propaganda caused him to present himself in the book as completely naive and to cut the tour to a mere frame for the memoirs of Paoli, but the result is still pleasing.
The plot was flimsy, a mere frame for the dialogue, which was itself frequently improvised.
Some homes are mere frames, barely suggestive of a dwelling.
There is also an understated sadness and soulfulness to F. Murray Abraham's performance of an aged Zero, now the proprietor of the outmoded Grand Budapest, but this role serves as a mere framing device for recounting the action of the story.
They all come with dodgy, mildly transgressive videos of, say, Britney in a bath, which you can't help worrying are mere frames away from being illegal and presumably cost pennies to make.
No retroactive intervention would infuse a single frame of it with the merest scintilla of the terror promised in the ad campaign.
By controlling all the parameters, complete dye mineralization can be achieved within an equilibration time frame of 40 min, using a mere 100 mg of the photocatalyst material.
Some of Cronenberg's most stunning and subtle directorial touches are mere framings — the off-center compositions that put Benjie toward the edge of the frame, not commanding his space by looking across the frame but aiming his gaze out his own side of the frame, as if he's both being pushed out of place and is desperate to leave it.
At every moment, Thomas is nudging us to ask whether we, and the world, are the way we assume they are, and whether a mere shift of frame could change everything and reveal a greater truth.
