Sentences with phrase «to recede into the background»

By the start of the second weekend, the blowout the Bulls put on the Pac - 12 champs had mostly receded into the background of a chaotic tourney, but that doesn't discount the extent of Arizona's collapse less than a week after cruising to a conference tournament crown.

A cover letter should introduce you, place your resume in a context, and then recede into the background as you move forward through the rest of the selection process.

But Pretto always gave that sum back, to his artists and to their audiences, and then receded into the background.

The same can be said for Hoult's Tesla, who is introduced early in the film and set - up to be a major player, but mostly recedes into the background.

The worldbuilding and concepts that seemed to recede into the background when I played the game around release are, to my adult mind, the most prescient and horrifying.

The best wearables, and the ones best positioned for profitability, may be those that allow their technology to completely recede into the background.

While critically acclaimed by many academics, Shand - Tucci's doorstopper was so stuffed with digressive social commentary and bouts of architectural psychoanalysis that Ralph Adams Cram and his buildings often recede into the background.

While noting that God remained the dominant presence in Christian art throughout the fifth century, Malraux makes this extremely important theological point: «It seems that in art — and probably in religion too — Christ tended to become the more Jesus, the more God the Father receded into the background.

The «mighty hand» of God recedes into the background.

What is sometimes referred to as the «gim me» prayer will recede into the background if it is replaced by the petition that God will give us the wisdom and strength to meet his high demands.

Romance recedes into the background and the student proceeds to the second stage called Precision.

Here, the matter of time and sequence recedes into the background, and one learns to be attentive to being, to why there is something rather than nothing.

The parable closes with the idea of the shepherd and the sheep receding into the background.

He is freed to dream of God's decisive, unambiguous act to eradicate all evil, as the ambiguities of divine action in the historical process recede into the background.

The transmission of the promise to more than one son is the center of the Joseph story as the divine Voice recedes into the background.

In such a case, the government of man would necessarily recede into the background, and what is divine might come to the fore.

Neutral shades can make the wall visually recede into the background, making the room appear larger and bringing more attention to the accessories in the room.

This absurd, quixotic task quickly recedes into the background, giving way to dream sequences and Nanni Moretti-esque detours; perhaps The Apostate is too scrambled and sputtering to be very good, but too gracefully directed to come within spitting distance of bad.

Instead, Harold recedes into the background, and «The Meyerowitz Stories» became still more invested in chronicling his impact on the rest of his family.

Just as the detective's narcotics - blurred mind mostly seems to be elsewhere, however, so the case recedes into the background for the bulk of the film, as his crazed antics bleed into a host of interconnected subplots.

Penn relies heavily on slo - mo, dissolves and lens flares, yet the actual Africans recede into the background.

Sometimes Anderson even has score and songs playing concurrently, and a number of times the music takes the foreground and the dialogue recedes into the background (most notably in the film's final scenes); both are bold moves, and they prove to be highly effective in showing the urgency of emotion that burns beneath the surface.

This makes it all the more surprising that, as the movie plays out, Reynolds and his genius recede into the background, becoming context for Alma's desire rather than the subject of the movie itself.

Cruising at open - road speeds the engine note also recedes into the background noise of wind and road, leaving just a subdued rumble to remind you the engine is still running.

Their book sort of fades into the background, after it has been written and its publication date recedes into the background.

Refusal of recognition can be seen in Toyin Ojih Odutola's pastel, which beckons the viewer in with white - brick - mortar lines receding into the background.

In Cezanne's painting the chair recedes into the background.

Created using stencils and layers of paint, the phrase «I Was Somebody» is repeated over-and-over again, line - by - line in the work until it almost recedes into the background.

Inspired by Romanticism, Owen's work also has a clearly contemporary bent, as the lovers appear before a grid receding into the background.

How can one make actors recede into the background — or even disappear — and instead activate the observer?

Filmed with drone cameras and moved by hidden performers, the haptic quality of the sculptures recedes into the background in service of the overall appearance of the film, allowing the sculptures to become temporary actors in the film.

After the press jumped on the fact that the first attempt to seal the gushing oil leak with an underwater oil containment dome had failed, other noteworthy news receded into the background: Namely, Louisiana Governor Bobby

Obama appears a little unnervingly content to let the issue recede into the background domestically, while claiming to be ready to take the mantle of leadership on climate change in speeches abroad.

Bitcoin's glaring imperfections are beginning to recede into the background hours after the new Bitcoin update has taken effect.

Many had looked forward to these features coming to the Galaxy S lineup with the Galaxy S9, but whether because the regular S9 only has a single camera or if Samsung just likes the Super Slow - Mo feature better, the company has focused all of its advertising on Super Slow - Mo and let the benefits of the dual camera recede into the background.

In the latter part of the 20th century the big overarching theories receded into the background and smaller theories based on real life observation came to the fore.

Often, problems loom over family units, making the unique values, gifts, and strengths of that unit recede into the background.

These elements create a dominent living and eating zone, while the kitchen recedes into the background.

All I could do was basically paint them white (while wearing a jockstrap) so they could just recede into the background of white walls but I secretly would kill for real wooden doors painted black!

The workstation recedes into the background and the dining area takes centre stage.

Silver, happy to recede into the background as «conciliator,» as he liked to call himself, knew the game.

It's full and punchy when called for, yet ready to recede into the background when a clean vocal line takes center stage, as if the DSP is performing a live mix.

It then recedes into the background and shot loops to begin the cycle again.

I am responding to the visual image of the cars and people, for example, by in my attention to the people and allowing the cars to recede into the background of my awareness.