0 the people, objects, countryside, etc. in a picture or photograph that seem nearest to you and form its main part: --
1 to give the most importance to a particular subject, etc.: --
The discussion in that seminar room foregrounded for me some of the issues of pronunciation teaching which surfaced in the years that followed.
She foregrounds experience and her own subjective responses, sometimes at the expense of situating her work within existing theoretical milieus.
The novel consistently foregrounds the power of gossip and public opinion to enforce communal norms and punish individual transgressions.
Site-specific performance is an art form that frequently makes surprise inevitable, while foregrounding our relationship with a wider environment.
Moreover, in doing so - in escaping or exposing its own 'strategies of containment' - narrative foregrounds that which it has, superficially, suppressed.
Though each piece foregrounds particular actors, the group operate as one single body.
Work which foregrounds the political processes tends to follow this method.
A given work will include passive or automatized elements which are subservient to the defamiliarizing or" foregrounded" elements.
