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foreground the area of space in a perspective picture, depicted as nearest the viewer foreground [′fȯr‚grau̇nd] (computer science) A program or process of high priority that utilizes machine facilities as needed, with less critical, background work performed in otherwise unused time.
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No zombie discussion would be complete without orotund socio-political theory, so here's mine: By foregrounding the question of how much dignity there can be in death and dying, the era of physician-assisted suicide and Terri Schiavo has spurred the recent revival of the zombie film. Singer-songwriter Toby Keith's eleventh studio album, White Trash With Money, provides a foregrounding of these dynamics in a manner dependent upon the listener's understanding and acceptance of his title's thesis. The prisoners' self-authenticating ritual of story-sharing, as much as anything else, recasts male desire by foregrounding the curative potential of the speech community in the re-envisioning of black male subjectivity. |
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