Sentence examples for take the foreground from inspiring English sources

Action in the background helps to establish later action that will take the foreground.

I know David Gilmour somewhat better than I know the other members of the band, and I was feeling diffident about the possibility that David would mind if the music was pushed into the background, half-heard, in order for my words to take the foreground.

The contrast between the characters' dialect and the narrator's formal diction can become heavy-handed, but Crane relished linguistic texture, allowing it to take the foreground in a way that his contemporaries William Dean Howells and Henry James almost never did.

The seafood stew — in which curry took the foreground while saffron flickered in the background — had tough shellfish.

This ambiguous assignment takes the foreground in a tale ranging over Tassie's home life and love life — the nest she's just departed and the nest she's hoping to flutter into.

Here, we simply took the foreground as the set of the pixels whose intensity was above the mean value of all pixels in the image.

Yet her leftist politics always hover somewhere in the background, and often take over the foreground in mini-lectures.

For if you take away the foreground story about the quest for the books, what you are left with is a resonant account of the first European genocide - more than a million Cathars died as a result of what became known as the "Albigensian Crusade" - fuelled by the language of fear and hate dressed up as religious piety.