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  • Still, a partially out-of-focus Robbie Robertson album every 13 years is better than half of what crosses my playlist weekly.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011

  • In turn, that means exceptionally rude and intrusive audiences; out-of-focus films in 2D; out-of-phase and/or misadjusted speakers; or a 120-mile drive to the nearest quasireliable theater.

    Clash of the Titans: Theater or Rental? 2010

  • I didn't want him to know that his call made me feel all warm and fuzzy with out-of-focus eyes.

    Maggie Van Ostrand: Andy Rooney and Me Maggie Van Ostrand 2011

  • But a viewer needs to stand in designated zones to experience a 3-D effect; otherwise the screen becomes an out-of-focus blur.

    Microsoft Develops 3D Without the Glasses | Impact Lab 2010

  • The red-headed young girl in a striped polo shirt in the foreground of "The Granddaughter" (2004) rests her elbow on a china cabinet filled with porcelain figurines of 18th-century equestrians; her slightly out-of-focus grandparents (you see the resemblance in the faces) wear expensive dark clothes and peer forward with concern from an alcove in the rear.

    Experiments in Color, Style William Meyers 2012

  • Trust me, I've got enough poorly-exposed, out-of-focus "artsy" shots in my iPhoto Library to fill several albums.

    Weekend update: Shutter secrets 2011

  • If you don't know what that is, Wikipedia defines Bokeh as a word derived from the Japanese that is "a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens."

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • You know what I mean, books with out-of-focus pastel covers, an extreme avoidance of anything like plot or entertainment, full of writing in a tone that refuses to lift itself above the level of monotonous murmur, without the least passion, complex philosophical outlook, or sense that there might be something, ANYTHING, the least bit exciting in the world.

    [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen 2010

  • If you don't know what that is, Wikipedia defines Bokeh as a word derived from the Japanese that is "a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens."

    Bokeh Obsessed 2009

  • In the latter melody, mostly stated by Mr. Monder, "I'll Remember April" seemed like an out-of-focus, half-remembered dream, but beautiful.

    The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones Will Friedwald 2011

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