Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infinitely more pleasant than Zoditch, has become gently pensive as a result of his own failure to win hearts both male and female. After one aborted attempt to win a girl's heart and thus to make an impression, he retreats--very gracefully, for a graceless character--into the background, and dies without complaint...
...makes it stand out even in the large chorus members. Randolph's speaking voice, a natural British accent dulled somewhat by his moving to New Jersey, seems a bit odd in a story that takes place in Peru. Likewise, the sets, colorful but subtle hues that provide a good background for the sometimes intentionally garish costumes, look very little like anything in any Latin American country that I've ever seen. But this is opera; we shouldn't ask any questions...
...finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt produces a salty background in the saliva, raising the threshold at which salt is noticed in food...
...lays it out. He dismisses the notion that judges should ever consider the merits of legislation, unwise as it may seem. The reason: judicial interventionism subverts the democratic process, and the values that judges often invoke to strike down legislation are often less than widely shared. "I guess the background principle is, 'Don't second-guess the legislature," Ely explains...
...person who I think brought some special background, special concerns, and special talents to the school." Frank E. Michelman, the professor of Law who taught Shelton's contract law course last term, said late last night...