"The eye seeks a frame within which a gesture is suspended, motion frozen and all in balance.
Over the last nine years, it has corrected its course, entering a new period of steadiness and dignity as it seeks a new framing of jazz — and of its own audience.
Nor did the concert seek an emotional frame for the music or an impact beyond the skill and joviality of the collaboration.
Last month Labour sought to frame a vote for Ukip as one for a Thatcherite party that would raise taxes, force voters to pay to use the NHS and see their local GP.
In fairness, Ed Miliband has sought to frame a coherent governing project with the concept of a more "responsible capitalism".
When the group started touring, they sought to frame a rationale for Cinematic Titanic's efforts, something to parallel MST3K's conceit that scientists were studying the effect of bad movies on Joel's brain.
He defected briefly last year, when he endorsed a Republican candidate, Bob Turner, in a Congressional race that Mr. Koch sought to frame as a referendum on Mr. Obama's Israel policy.
They have sought to frame the effort to seek a trial delay as a vote for or against Africa.
Mr. Monserrate and his legal defense team, led by Norman Siegel, a well-known civil rights litigator, sought to frame the expulsion as an issue of due process and voter disenfranchisement.
In Germany, an article featured on the German-language fringe-right site Blaue Narzisse sought to frame Charlottesville as a win for the far-right by hailing the way they were able to translate an online movement into large crowds on the streets, blaming the violence on police and antifascists, and accusing the press of "inventing" a neo-Nazi terror attack.
