0 present participle of foreground
1 to give the most importance to a particular subject, etc.:
It is as if the text, through foregrounding its own evasions, calls its own validity into question.
Site-specific performance is an art form that frequently makes surprise inevitable, while foregrounding our relationship with a wider environment.
Here what is involved is the foregrounding of qualities perceived as remote from the self or other.
Waetjen addresses this well-recognized feature of the region's politics by foregrounding the importance of masculinity.
The foregrounding of hard technology allows these delusions to be perpetuated.
Foregrounding these figures might have added further nuances to the argument of the book.
The impact of this foregrounding of the performer as a central focus of musicological study has, however, been somewhat patchy.
However, it is also claimed that the progressive has expressive, intensive, focalizing, foregrounding, subjective, textual, stylistic, etc. functions at its various stages of development.
