Sentence examples for what blur from inspiring English sources

It might have looked like an innocent pop single, but what Blur released 20 years ago this Friday was more like an act of war.

· The Guardian is the media partner of Manchester International Festival, June 28-July 15, www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com 12 years on What Blur and Oasis did next It was the pop battle that divided the nation, and was emblematic of the era: the battle of the bands, 1995, when Blur and Oasis released singles on the same day.

You could almost take it as a wilfully grotesque screw-you, a knowing parody of what Blur's detractors thought Parklife sounded like, were it not for the fact it seems so self-conscious and joyless.

"I discovered what the blur could contribute," he wrote of it.

The National Portrait Gallery's trustees may have asked "What is Blur?" when offered the chance to acquire Julian Opie's portraits of the band, but I wonder what they made of their first conceptual portrait.

It's probably some token of what makes Blur different that his tale is perhaps the most fascinating of all: he's now not only a prospective Labour candidate at the next election, but a trainee solicitor, who spends his Tuesday nights working as a "police station representative" for some of London's most vulnerable people.

What is Blur?

So what is Blur?

However, on the Real Blur Database, where the blurs are more complex, possibly nonlinear, and spatially variant, blur perception is more complex and probably more correlated with content (e.g., what is blurred in the image?).

As the characters' physical perceptions melt into one another, Shaw pulls out the stops to show us what that blurring of identity could mean.

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