How To Use Blur In A Sentence

This puts a lot of stress on our eyes which can suffer from blurriness, fatigue etc. Glasses Lot | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
A new maximum a posteriori (MAP) super-resolution algorithm is proposed to reduce the complexity of blur parameter adjustment and the iterative computation load.
A new maximum a posteriori (MAP) super-resolution algorithm is proposed to reduce the complexity of blur parameter adjustment and the iterative computation load.
And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.

The markings are so blurred that it is difficult to identify.
Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
Like the invitation to run together, he blurted out such things as if he were completely unaware of how they might be interpreted, with a guileless innocence that couldn't help but put me at ease.
We have all been guilty of it: blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action. Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
Peche was able to create this dreamworld by breaking up a wall with a row of narrow windows, by giving the illusion of height with columns and pilasters, and by blurring the borders of a room.
Her head spun and her vision blurred from the effort but through the confusion she could see a faint light spread out from her hand and wash over her body.
Then they are like, talking late one night and Tammy blurts it out.
As soon as Leslie's name was blurted out on a TV programme, the newspapers piled in.
The blurring of paintings and sculptures works well throughout the building. Times, Sunday Times
His father blurred the distinction between art and life. Times, Sunday Times
This can cause corneal abrasions, bleeding in the front or middle part of the eye, and blurred vision. Times, Sunday Times
The third in the triplet took you in totally the opposite direction by looking at life as a transgender person who blurs the distinction between male and female identification.
Tears blurred her vision as she swung out, hammering on the horn.
When this happens, we will encounter a strange blurring of the edges between virtual and true realities.
The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
There's a girl doing a cartwheel on the sand in one shot; noses are pressed up against the blurry lens in another. Panama, Ho!
Critical seminars within the university may sometimes blur this distinction if they contain elements of genuine intellectual exchange.
Their shape could not be clearly defined as their outline seemed blurred in a haze of grey smoke surrounding them, but they seemed human shaped.
But it's worth a go just to splat Tony Blur, William Vague and Charles Comedy.
I was so desperate for the object of my craving that I almost blurted out, ‘Are you going to buy that?’
This point-of-view tale meanders and stumbles in a blurry daze with characters coming and going.
Vigilance is needed for any features of possible optic neuropathy, such as blurred vision, impaired colour perception, and reduced visual acuity
There are moments when your head becomes a blur. Times, Sunday Times
Both antihistamines and anticholinergics can have anticholinergic side effects, including dry mouth, urinary retention, blurred vision, and exacerbation of narrow-angle glaucoma.
Symptoms include near vision image blur, abnormal color perception, monocular diplopia, glare, and impaired visual acuity, and may vary depending on location of the cataract.
But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor. Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
Here's the most succulent bit: Distinctions between the body and landscape will be blurred in the new practice of geomedicine and the related science of medical geology. Archive 2006-04-01
The blurb makes it all sound far more titillating than it probably is, but they're right about the leather and amyl though.
These days, the meaning has become blurred. Times, Sunday Times
The lines are pretty blurry at this point.
Her voice seemed to come from miles away and her image was blurred. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
A wide aperture will take care of the background but I don't want any blurring of grass waving in the foreground.
Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
Reading about the fuggy alcoholic blurs always so lucidly expressed of experiences with the literary and intellectual luminaries of his day, one might wonder whether Hitchens is the dreamer or the dreamed, the purveyor of an intellectual fantasy or the product of other peoples' ideas. Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens
Also accompanying the typescript is a small rectangular piece of paper upon which Leinster has evidently typed an advertisement blurb. Antiquarian Weird Tales: Murray Leinster
The photo I took of the whole quilt doesn't show any of the quilting (well, black thread on a black background, from a distance, what did I expect?) and the closeup is blurry because I couldn't get the camera to focus, but I think you get the idea. The mysteries of hand quilting
Infinity pools (where the edges overflow with water) blur the boundary between swimming pool and decorative water feature.
It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead. SACRAMENT
With the rise of telecommuting, there is a blurring of the lines between nonoccupational and occupational injuries. Undefined
The irregular shape of the cornea distorts the image causing it to blur, unlike in a lazy eye where the eye is essentially normal.
The old lines of historical distinction are blurring. Times, Sunday Times
A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
This could cause wrong results for - convolve, - blur, - sharpen, and other algorithms which use these functions. Softpedia - Windows - All
After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
The lines have become blurred. The Sun
Speaking of email glitches, one nearly kiboshed the lovely blurb Ken did for SECOND SHOT. Hero Worship
He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness: but he cometh to you with words sent in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. English literary criticism
We would like to have very black and very white, very good, very evil, very clean-cut distinctions and those distinctions can be blurred if we aren't careful.
Here's another tip: Before I started shooting, I set the camera on self-timer mode: This let the camera fire itself, preventing any shake that could introduce blur. Tips: How to shoot super night photos
But this kind of blurring is not unique to quantum mechanics: the same happens to waves. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
I have tried to befriend the two resident crocodiles, whom I have named "Smiles" and "Blur. Animal Planet: July 2008
The line between monetary and fiscal measures has become increasingly blurred. Times, Sunday Times
Cataloged below are some traits I believe a networked-based economy would exhibit: Distributed CoresThe boundaries of a company blur to obscurity.
You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite to blurt it out.
Such a broad range may seem innocuous, but it blurs the lines between supposition and fact. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone has his inherent power, which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness.
Her voice seemed to come from miles away and her image was blurred. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Through the white-hot blur he heard the girl scream, and the horse neigh loudly.
Eliza pitched forward, her head swimming, her vision blurring.
In a pale blur she saw her father and mother standing at the foot of the bed.
The show further blurs the line between advertising and entertainment in an age of celebrity pitchmen and scripted product placement.
He never speaks (or at least hasn't in my company), and despite his bum-length dreads and army wear, seems to blend quite easily into the blur of Ednburgh life.
For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
That is pretty good, considering that most shots I take with other compact digicams get blurry at two times that shutter speed.
The address was seared on my memory --- 5 (a) Artemis Road --- I'd seen it on the estate agents ' blurb. RESCUING ROSE
Personally, I have seen some suspicious tracks, but they were rain blurred, and have heard some screeches (not owls) that I couldn't put a name to, but have no real reason to believe that there are any in my neck of the woods. How many people out there think or know there are mountain lions in your state? Please remember to list your state.
Mosley too became increasingly prone to blur the distinction between art, philosophy and life.
The design of the conservatory is meant to blur the distinction between the house and the garden.
The boundary between the two degrees of disability obviously is blurred, and reasonable people will often disagree about a particular case.
Thousands of ad campaign strategists flooding the DVR'd airwaves (and our Internet hours) with ignorable notions that are not swaying anyone with that blurry rhetoric. Richard Laermer: "Your Life Hasn't Changed By The Man Who's Elected"
As mentioned, SIMMONS takes a step forward from "The Terror" here; by introducing an unreliable narrator, he successfully manages to blur the line between facts and fiction and thus piquing reader's interest. Archive 2009-12-01
His eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he saw veils of moving smoke, lighter shapes that suggested vast nudities, then rows of bent heads with blurred outlines. Death in Ecstasy
The line between monetary and fiscal measures has become increasingly blurred. Times, Sunday Times
It went past in a bit of a blur. Times, Sunday Times
Norwegian punk rockers blur the lines of rock, metal and punk rock with their own creation, death punk.
The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
Yet there I was in thick make-up and bad costumes, willingly standing on the stage and blurting my few lines.
Such linguistic or logocentric approaches to the arts have tended to distort or blur understandings of art on its own terms.
The years have softened his face into an almost girlish blur. Times, Sunday Times
Some argue that this blurring of the boundary between our work and private lives need not be a bad thing.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blur of movement on the other side of the glass.
He had been struck by sunstroke and his vision was blurred.
People appeared as tiny black dots in the grainy, blurred footage, and there seem to be about two dozen in the alley, although it is difficult to determine the exact number.
So… you need a Famous Writer, or at a pinch, a Famous Reviewer (which is all too often an oxymoron) to produce the necessary burble for the blurb.
The tears blurred her vision.
When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby.
You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite to blurt it out.
She looked at the letter but could not read it for the tears blurring her vision.
The result is blurry and dark, often out of focus.
As the bus left, she faded into a blurring hazy picture waving from behind the cloud of dust.
The grey seafog sweeps in, blurring the boundary between sea and land, disorientating anyone held in its spell.
After almost eight years, it is all a blur but I can still remember this sense of community and belonging among the people.
Life is difficult and many of the symptoms of chronic pain blur and bleed into each other, he writes. Brigid Brett: The Long Shelf of War
This intervention has the effect both of undermining managerial autonomy and of weakening the coherence of political control by blurring objectives.
I did an approximation of the focus/genre of the novels from what I could glean from the brief blurbs, and came up with this: Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Mendocino Conference fires up my interest in YA
Our Michigan summer is a blur, but we followed that up the next summer with 6 weeks at UCLA.
Fiction and reality were increasingly blurred.
So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed.
It's a first-person blurt, a perspectival non sequitur given what follows. The Times Literary Supplement
From here the route becomes a bit of a blur as a section of flat crawling and squeezy bits were negotiated, until we eventually arrived at the head of the Serendipity Pitches.
Meditative and soft, his blurred landscapes exude a sense of atmosphere.
He's taken the club as far as he can, a fairly standard issue snidey remark blurted out shortly after Liverpool's defeat at Blackpool on Wednesday night. Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
Places must tend to blur into one another. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
The stars turned to streaking blurs as they were hurled forward, Maia pushing the steering handles as far forward as they would go.
I just mosaiced a bike and I thought it would fit in with this little blurb! Moore bikes, please | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
The invention is applicable, in particular, to the production of a main beam with a blurred, achromatic, cut-off at the bottom; this beam may be autonomous, or it may be complementary to a dipped or passing beam.
Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something…
Blend right out to the corner flick gently to blur any hard edges. Times, Sunday Times
I'd like to see new ways to provide security that don't entail centralization of what code can run, especially since control of code blurs into control of content. Is It Better for Businesses to Adopt Open or Closed Platforms?
Warwick's opening gambit is to blur the line between consciousness and intelligence.
The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
After that, an awkward silence once again filled the room, until finally Lia finally blurted it out.
From the far edge of her weighted drowse a voice filtered through in blurred staccato bursts. The Temperature of Porridge
Just as he did so, a black blur zinged through the air where his head had been a split second before.
My first week passed in a blur, mainly caused by my confusion about what I was meant to do and not knowing who everyone was.
I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped. Times, Sunday Times
On the one hand, we have some process theologians blurring the distinction between God and the universe, and treating the Godhead itself as part of the cosmic evolutionary process.
In the 'afters' she is not only slimmed down, but kind of blurred, so that the physicality is veiled. Kmareka.com
Lego is, like, the perfect device to enculturate a citizenry intolerant of smell, intestinal by-products, nonadherence to unified standards, decay, blurred edges, germination, and death. Microserfs
I was talking to Huffpo's Paul Abrams about McCain's recent random, counterproductive "blurt" about not wanting to talk to friend Spain and not talking to our enemies. Karen Russell: It's McCain's Debate To Lose
Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology. Archive 2008-03-01
The line between Allen's own personality and his screen characters is distinctly blurred here, a trait of many of his subsequent movies.
Forrest Gump was a long, historical dramedy that further blurred the line of time.
The military distinction between combat and support has grown more blurred. Times, Sunday Times
Missy's view started to get blurry; she realized her eyes were tearing up.
Her blade swished as it cut the air, and completed the upswinging arc with only a blur in the middle. The Conquering Sword of Conan
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
There were some wheatears in there too, and several other blurry dashes of color whizzing around in the big excitement they were taking part in, guess this must be it: the beginning of spring.
This film blurs the line/distinction/boundary between reality and fantasy.
The face is in focus and the edges are all blurred!
But on the doorstone he found three drops shaken, dried now but plain to be seen, and on the new and unstained timber with which the left jamb of the doorway had been repaired there was a blurred smear of blood at the level of his own shoulder, where a gashed and bloodied sleeve had brushed past. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The action obscures her face, but the rest of her body remains unblurred. Google Street View Snaps Photo Of Naked Florida Woman (PHOTOS)
But the blurb says its author believes his fellow countrymen were once ‘polite, unexcitable, reserved and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life’.
We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review.
The service itself passed in a blur of kindly faces, murmured condolences and ecclesiastic efficiency.
In this industry, the lines are often blurred between what is part of the game and what should be allowed as entertainment.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blur of movement on the other side of the glass.
To be self-critical for a moment, I think it's a bit blurry.
So after a few drinks, I just blurted it out and tried to make a joke of it. The Sun
She suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone and claimed to have had blurred vision and numbness in her face following the fracas.
His latest volume, A Paradise of Poets, still manages to blur traditional lines between literacy and orality, the ‘strong’ author and tribal collaborator.
All the players are on the field gettings penalties and scoring goals but their uniform colors are blurred, even the umpires and field judges are difficult to distinguish from the players from where I sit. Safety in Michoacan
However, Brian Martin, from Glasgow, claims his operation made his left eye worse and left the vision in his right eye blurred.
The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled.
She grinned through an ash-blond blur of beer and mescal, giggling against his shoulder.
15Elshtain argues that medieval men and women inhabited a structured but loose-fitting 'saeculum', in which distinctions between war and peace, reason and emotion, nature and culture, science and faith, domestic and civil, proper and uncouth, even male and female were to some degree blurred. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Symptoms of pink eye can include redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, itching of the eye, a gritty feeling in the eye, pain and increased tear production.
Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil. January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The bathroom was blurry and nearly undistinguishable through the door.
Oh, so we can keep paying more for healthcare and that expense is OK .... this guy (R) is talking about how people dont really want this bla bla, blurring lines between healthcare and debts but has he spoken to the Americans who want healthcare reform?? GOP senator warns of 'minor revolution' over health care
Furthermore, the multiple parallel lines of the streets give the blurry impression of a time-lapse photograph of headlights and tail lights produced by moving traffic.
Instead, its darkness interpenetrates the figure; their contest is fought out through brushy, blurred and sharp lines, and through the quiet waves of energy rippling along the velvet, planed-down blackness.
Certainly, before Newton, the very idea of physical law was at best a blur.
The ellipsis indicates that a piece of additional supporting material has been removed from the main DVD blurb, leaving us with a truncated summary of the original concept.
Intermediate uveitis is characterised by floaters and blurred vision and varies in severity.
Out of the corner of her eye she spotted a blur and turned towards it.
Hell, the CBC even re-aired the incident unblurred in news coverage, and again, no issue. Matthew Yglesias » Checks and Balances
A child with coprolalia may blurt out insults, racial slurs or obscenities.
The blurring of paintings and sculptures works well throughout the building. Times, Sunday Times
These are the days when I can't be bothered talking about the hassles, but am happier just blurting them out ‘silently’ on here.
Psychologists who have studied the phenomenon describe a condition called pseudologia fantastica: the blurring of fact and fantasy so thoroughly that the imposter almost convinces himself that he is a war hero. Bill Burke 12/2001
Instead, the film buckles under the weight of its subject matter and resorts to a blur of fraught chases, narrow scrapes and miraculous reprieves.
However, the publicity blurb does make clear that Malaysia has three pin electric plugs at 240 volts which is more than Thailand can claim.
His blurred tone and urbane, eloquent solos are enjoyable enough, but the star here is the tenorist.
In a blur of activity, my right hand grabs a fistful of front brake, the left pulls the clutch. The Sun
Blurring art and life, the ‘Bed-Ins’ illustrate the strategies of happenings and Fluxus performance at the heart of Yoko's aesthetic.
He seemed groping for a fresh beginning, then gave up suddenly all attempt at circuity and blurted it out much as though he had lived with the thought too long to endure it longer alone. Then I'll Come Back to You
Afterall, Hooky spent more time at the Hacienda and the Dry Bar than most and is therefore better qualified to comment, even if, at his own admission, much of the time spent there was slightly blurred by "overindulgence". New Order Information Service
Their fans would say that they consistently outshone their indie contemporaries Blur and Oasis.
It, like the opium , will hocus your nerves, blur your eyes and confuse your mind.
He'd seen Jacqueline standing at the head of the table like a high priestess over an altar, a ghost in the blurry movement of her nightgown. MINUTES TO BURN
Speedboat blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel.
Blurring the distinction between slave and free makes more complicated and problematic the nature of legal status.
The rest of the tour goes by in a gray, drizzly blur.
Here's a blurb about a new book about Polari on Amazon: Sonos
For all its prankish blurring of the lines between author/character and reality/invention, the book finally does present a compelling and complete account of the life of "Michael Martone," an account that really coheres around the other character introduced in that first Contributor's Note, MM's mother, and the city of Fort Wayne. Experimental Fiction
Furthermore, the ambiguity of distinction between species and varieties is not only a synchronic problem, reflecting some kind of contemporaneous blurring of the boundaries between taxa at these levels.
The next few moments passed in a blur.
Yet she could feel for her father, in spite of the fact that whatever her accent or grammatical mistakes, her mother's conduct was always right and her father, with his charming air, a little blurred by what he called misfortune, his clear speech to which Henrietta loved to listen, was fundamentally unsound. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
Getting my booked "blurbed" by an author never crossed my mind when I started out. Archive 2008-02-01
To borrow the name of another big band of the era, that period was all a bit of a blur. The Sun
The distant beat of voices echoed through the room, soft voices which blurred and repeated the same words, the same tune, over and over again.
There's a place where boys perhaps wisely fear to tread, somewhere where the boundaries of rock and jazz blur.
I don't really think he meant to blurt it out that way, but he was nervous.
Some filmmakers shine a bright light that blurs the intimate, the indistinct and the fugitive.
This made the terrain whiz by so fast that it caused the images to blur. Eckley, Wayne A.
I also had to add a pinch of coniine (which causes blurred vision) as well as -- the cherry on the cake -- a dash of stramonium (which can cause dizziness and hallucinations). Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Billy Louise looked, found her vision blurring with her own tears, and turned and tiptoed from the room. The Ranch at the Wolverine
Recently he blurted out 'I need space! Times, Sunday Times
A money moon blurs the line between being generous and making unrealistic promises. The Sun
The shine of rain on the asphalt blurred abnormally, looking less liquid than electric.
Gelett Burgess (1866 – 1951) coined both blurb and tintiddle, though blurb is sometimes attributed to Brander Matthews. April « 2009 « Sentence first
The blurb says that this is Tarantino's greatest movie.

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