And that neutrality liberated the image, too, for the best directors, who were able to rely on dialogue to carry weight and, so, to de-dramatize the image, in order to make subtle visual inflections register mightily and to free the camera for flights of fancy.
The change point was selected by visual inspection of Schoenfeld residual plots, which showed an inflection between 44 and 59 years of age and an inflection point at age 55.
The number of components to be investigated further was determined by visual inspection of scree plots of eigenvalues; based on an inflection point or when the components explained > 60% variance (Additional file 2).
Third, based on visual inspection of the plotted income-mortality hazard ratios we identify median income level as a critical point of inflection for outcomes where substantial non-linear associations were found.
With images filmed (by Ahmed El Maanouni) in a silky, high-contrast black-and-white, Dash infuses the visual repertory of musicals and melodramas with modernist inflections — most powerfully in a scene of vast symbolic impact, set in a sound studio.
Above all, he was already detaching the image from dialogue, creating images that weren't merely illustrative but highly expressive; his sense of visual storytelling was based on an intensity of rhetorical inflection.
However, there are no sharp inflections in performance abilities corresponding to specific visual acuity.
