The simple fact is that I'm a diehard romantic, and I dream in soft-focus just as much as the next person standing in the cold bus queue. |
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Eventually, invention flags, and the conclusion dissipates into soft-focus mysticism. |
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The BVP-E30 Series' electronic soft focus applies a similar effect to that of an optical soft-focus filter but in a much more convenient way. |
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They will resort to toupees and tucks, soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age. |
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Colour, black and white, sepia, posterization, and soft-focus settings are available. |
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Visually retreating to an indeterminate distance are soft-focus spots or clouds of unbroken color clunkily applied with an airbrush. |
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But that was a subtle, soft-focus opening shot compared to what was to come. |
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The images have a soft-focus painterly quality, bringing to mind the paintings of both Gerhard Richter and Chuck Close. |
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The picture has soft-focus likability when it spotlights Zoe's outcast status. |
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And the costuming of the soft-focus heroine is feminine, maternal and homey. |
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What with talking fetuses, soft-focus lenses, and abortion as a theoretical possibility only, anti-choice propagandists could hardly do it better. |
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Aside from the visual zimzam of twitchy cuts and soft-focus art-film tricks, it gets draggy while you wait for the wonder twins to figure out where they should look. |
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For soft-focus bedroom eyes, she suggests using Estée Lauder Artist's Eye Pencil in soft black. |
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The whole interior glows with surreal, soft-focus light. |
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The story, which Sheila narrates, begins as a soft-focus romantic idyll. |
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Unfortunately development journalism, too, just ended up being soft-focus feature articles on irrigation projects or bio-gas which made editors' eyes glaze over. |
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So many Hollywood pretty boys of the past gave us nothing but straight-arrow heroes, while swamping the ageing process in soft-focus photography to ever-decreasing effect. |
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Soft-focus or diffusion filters give a misty quality to images and can impart a romantic mood to scenics and flower close-ups. |
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