Word: blurring
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...during the Renaissance when doctors operated on dead bodies and treated living patients in the center of a pillared medical theater. Leonardo da Vinci depicted several such scenes in his paintings. In placing Medicine as Art/Art as Medicine within this historical and artistic context, he is further able to blur the boundary between art and real life...
...heard about the crash on the car radio. Keith Morehouse was home watching The Newlywed Game with his mother and his twin sister when the bulletin flashed across the screen. "My mother shrieked and started making frantic phone calls," Keith recalls. "People started coming over, and it was a blur after that." Longtime Huntington residents can tell you without hesitation where they were when they first heard the news--at the drive-in movie theater, in a restaurant, at a dance. Jack Hardin, a police reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, rushed to the airport not knowing what plane...
...Blur the boundary between confidence and arrogance...
...child; it's a desire which has remained unfulfilled for the first two years of their marriage. As time passes and Yerma's age mates become pregnant and bear children, Yerma remains barren, "empty." Her desire for a baby becomes an obsession, her infertility a trauma that begins to blur the boundaries between psychological and physical pain until it becomes an unbearable torment to her ("Every woman has enough blood inside her for three or four children," she says despairingly, "and if she doesn't have them, it'll turn to poison...
...should a school intentionally blur the academic distinctions between its applicants just to meet its dream of a perfectly diverse student body? This diversity-by-any-means-necessary approach to college admissions seems to relegate the measurement of academic merit to an afterthought. If the U.C. regents truly believe the SAT to be culturally biased, then they should look for a new gauge of academic achievement--not simply attempt to erase the current yardstick...