foregrounded

Or should I say that they are being "foregrounded" in a rather unpleasant way.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

The physically awkward but intellectually gifted nebbish was foregrounded in film and television by Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, and Richard Dreyfuss, and later by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Larry David.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

And it's the aura foregrounded here that, over time, restores something to art that, if not sacred then at least secularly significant as to how installations and not curatorial fictive zeitgeists impact its experience.

James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011

Language has ever been political, but too many of those poets who've foregrounded that fact have had no particular agenda other than to deconstruct often argued as its own agenda.

Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

Pixar, defined by its technological apparatus and always figured as the future of animation, is a natural fit for Tomorrowland, and this is the region of the park where Pixar is foregrounded.

Notes for a Future Paper on Disney World « Gerry Canavan 2010

And it's the aura foregrounded here that, over time, restores something to art that, if not sacred then at least secularly significant as to how installations and not curatorial fictive zeitgeists impact its experience.

James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates James Scarborough 2011

Language has ever been political, but too many of those poets who've foregrounded that fact have had no particular agenda other than to deconstruct often argued as its own agenda.

Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011

He foregrounded the boogie woogie piano, turned up the bass and simplified Humphrey Lyttleton's trumpet solo.

Humphrey Lyttelton's Bad Penny Blues 2011

This function is foregrounded in Being Human, in which poetry in translation, a central pillar of each of the books, is given still greater prominence several of the poems that appear in translation here are being published in English for the first time.

Being Human, edited by Neil Astley – review 2011

And when the essentialist theories are foregrounded, then the Really Real Issues ™ – the social, legal, cultural and other contexts of being a transsexual person in an overwhelmingly cissexual world – are backgrounded.

Kim Petras 2009