Sentences with phrase «of blur on»

Unlike the iPhone, the Note 8 lets you adjust the level of blur on the background both before and after taking shot.

There are nice little touches like the ability to change the amount of blur on a wallpaper and the fact that ASUS bundles all their apps into one folder is kinda nice.

In Dying Light, this DirectX 11 - powered effect increases the precision and image quality of depth of field blurring, and enables Techland to specify the intensity of blurring on a case by case basis.

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Befitting a campaign in which the leading candidate is known for a TV show that blurred the lines between reality and scripted TV drama, there are any number of sub-texts and counter-narratives in Trump's attack on Kelly.

As The Wirecutter notes, «Details on the high end are clear but not piercing, the mids are even with no muddy, blurred sound, and for $ 70, the Swimbuds Sport headphones sound better than some of the merely water - resistant headphones that cost upwards of $ 40 more.»

I was swigging what must've been my fifth cup of coffee that night, and the numbers on my Excel spreadsheet were starting to blur in front of my eyes.

The blurring of language — retailers» using «Black Friday» to describe deals that happen on days other than the day after Thanksgiving — makes Black Friday less about one day of the year and more about a deal's perceived value.

But Eisen tells Fortune that several lawyers, including those who are part of the Republican party, are «worried about this unprecedented blurring of lines» and President - elect Trump should «expect massive litigation if he proceeds on this collision course.»

On the flip side, Samsung caught up to last year's iPhone 7 Plus by adding a second camera to the back of the new Note that adds an optical zoom and can create a blurred background effect.

And it's blurring the lines between the virtual world and its bricks - and - mortar stores: Shoppers can buy items they see on Pinterest and Instagram with just a couple of taps on their phones, via apps such as Like2Buy.

The Recording Industry of America on Monday urged a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision upholding a $ 5.3 million judgment against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copying a Marvin Gaye song to create their 2013 smash «Blurred Lines.»

The lines between a cash transaction and a non-cash transaction link will forever be blurred, because a paper trail of cash can't — and will never — be purely traceable on the web.

Nor was their faith without learning or indifferent to their pluralistic culture; on the contrary, their scholarship and concern for effective proclamation seemed far more profound than the blurred lines of Canberrra.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

JUDGING THE JUDGES Patrick McKinley Brennan's review «The Forms Behind the Laws» (April) begs fundamental questions of interpretation, blurs the distinction between legislating and judging, and proposes a mode of judicial interpretation that would, in its practical application, be indistinguishable from judges who make decisions based on personal preference.

One season blurred into another, with pictures taken on the beach mixed with those of pajama - clad kids in our living room.

The ontological principle, and the wider doctrine of universal relativity, on which the present metaphysical discussion is founded, blur the sharp distinction between what is universal and what is particular.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

His work since then has focused increasingly on questions of animal rights, on the ethics of vegetarianism, and on blurring the distinctions between fiction and autobiography.

This one moment when you're driving down the road, the music is on loud, you tip your head back and the light is flashing between the trees, faster and faster, a blur of light and leaves.

Sometimes the blurring is around the edges, as when Phoenix starts to look more like L.A. than like Santa Fe or when northern Missouri looks more like the Midwest than like the «Southern Crossroads» that its southern half fits into, or when Maryland sits at the intersection of the Middle Atlantic to its north and the South on the other side.

Similar sentiments are heard today from «pastoral planners» who take their cues from Protestant megachurches in which creating a feeling of «ownership» on the part of the congregation, often by blurring the border between sacred and profane, is very much part of the marketing - and - retention strategy.

Is not precisely the essential difference between natural and secular history on the one hand and the really personal, sacred history of redemption on the other, blurred, if God's action even outside the history of redemption receives a definite predicamental position within space and time, because a definite, precise individual reality in distinction to others and in a different way from others receives a privileged direct relation to God?

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Rather, it's that late - 60s - to - present Blue feeling, Comfortably Numb like Pink Floyd, Resigned like Blur, or worse with Radiohead, that at the very least lurks on the edges of this music, even at its most determinedly poppy.

The force of the objection depends precisely on blurring» or missing» the difference between private and public action.

On the other hand, we are introduced to the nature and spirit of transcendentalism, but aren't told much about how the «softening contours and the blurring of details» in landscapes by George Inness reveal «underlying structures that directly mirrored the divine.»

Our consciousness blurs the lines separating the occasions of experience as it obliterates the lines separating the molecules of paint on the surface of a wall.

He can't hide behind a pretense that we only need to work on the economy while saying we should undermine science literacy AND blur separation of church and state at the same time!

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

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Occurring as it does in the context of a review of one of the most spectacularly successful empirical historical investigations in the whole field of life of Christ research, it is clear evidence of a tendency of the «new hermeneutic» to blur the distinction between statements possible on the basis of academic historical research and statements possible only on the basis of faith.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

«[PepisCo] remains focused on straddling spaces amidst the blurring of lines of retailers (e.g. c - store, food retailers, dollar stores, etc.), occasions (e.g. snacks vs. meals), and categories (e.g. hydration & CSDs),» said Herzog.

One in five Americans now grazes on snacks throughout the day instead of eating three square meals or even several «mini-meals» a day, according to new research suggesting the line between meals and snacks has become increasingly blurred.

Elaborating on the ever - blurring line between Burgundians and top New World Chardonnays, Tan explained: «Chardonnay is a very competitive grape variety that producers around the world are now really getting the hang of understanding how the grape variety works in that particular region or environment and producing very good quality wines.

the only limitation is that the light needs to be perfect, and you can't really get the effect of focusing on whatever you choose while blurring out the rest of the shot.

I was focused on the menu — divided into five categories («Snackles,» a goofy term that London made up, «Cold / Cool,» «Warm / Hot,» «Limited Availability,» and «Sides»)-- when I noticed a blur out of the corner of my eye.

The responses effectively blurred the lines between the two major parties on the issue of foreign investment, despite repeated statements from Labor ministers supporting foreign investment and ridiculing the Coalition's policy.

The blur of pushing food around on plates for an eight - hour shift, with an Igor - like book assist, is our lab at Del Posto, and sometimes our juices get so ready to explode that the off - menu plates we send out are the experiments.

Maybe the stars aligned and we were with the right people in the right place on the right night when a drippy, chocolatey dessert arrived and the rest of the night became a blur.

The outfield camera then caught Hooton on the mound, the white blur of Jackson rounding second momentarily obscuring the sight of the pitcher, who looked like a father who can't pay his bills.

In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from practice.

There Jill received a blur of diagnoses, each more frightening than the next: First she was told she had a serious infection, then grapefruit - sized cysts on her ovaries and, a few hours later and most ominously, masses in her lung, liver, clavicle and one breast.

31 JIM BUSBY, CENTER FIELD: One of the best defensively and a blur on the bases; after fast start this spring, hopes to regain 1953 - 54 batting pace -LRB-.312 and.298 with Senators).

The best was 132 - pound champ Melissa (Honeygirl) Salamone, a blur from Miami who, picking up on the braggadocio expected of sweet scientists, all but guaranteed a future win over Martin.

The two - footed kick was followed by an blur of punches from Cantona on Palace fan Matthew Simmons.

And in the freestyle final, held on the midway of Montreal's La Ronde amusement park, Shults's legs were so sore from his net matches that they had little oomph left for blending, barraging and blurring.

Guice was on the higher end of the explosiveness scale, though his vertical jump blurs that picture.

PN manages to blur the distinction between an «expert pundit» and a mystic sitting on the end of pier reading tea - leaves.