It's used in an effort to make the picture appear "smooth" -- something we saw with the Xperia Play as well -- but it leads to the unsatisfying outcome of killing fine detail and replacing it with a smeared appearance.
Elephants can be deterred by electric fences, where they can be afforded, or, it is hoped, by a rope smeared with a pungent mixture of grease and hot chilli peppers.
Ledger's Joker was a very different proposition from those that had come before: In a ripped, stained suit, with clown makeup smeared across a scarred, twisted mouth, his Joker was a nihilistic, sociopathic prankster.
We trudged along a dusty shelf, up another metal ladder, and had to crouch to walk through a narrow tunnel, eventually emerging on a concrete ledge smeared with pigeon droppings.
The autochrome achieved its color through a single glass plate smeared with millions of grains of potato starch, which were dyed red, green or violet and thus acted as tiny color filters.
The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.
In visible light, all stars appear as points, only smeared out into a small circle by the atmosphere and by the optics of the telescope.
IBM, in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, has developed a hydrogel that can be smeared all over such implants, greatly reducing the risk of infection.
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He wears a quilted silver jacket with a gold scorpion embroidered on the back, and keeps on wearing it when the fabric is smeared with gore, but why would a man so clearly defined elsewhere by the spirit of self-effacement take such a risk?
September's report confirmed him as one of the sources for a notorious Sun newspaper story that smeared Liverpool fans after the disaster.
He refused to be turned on even when a female Swiss zoology graduate, smeared with tortoise hormones, gave him manual stimulation for four months.
His face was smeared with sandalwood, and he wore a loose-fitting silk shirt through which a dark triangle of chest hair stuck out.
In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.
Shane Watson went for 20 in the penultimate over of the innings as he lost his line and length and bowled a series of wide full tosses that the Indian tail-enders merrily smeared through the covers and behind square.
By and large, these have taken the form of editorials, columns and op.ed. articles sharing a common theme: Halperin has been unfairly portrayed -- "smeared" is the preferred term -- by his critics as unfit for this senior Pentagon position through distortions of his past writings and recommendations.
Inside, a handful of children are spread front to back, their expressionless faces gazing out the smeared windows, their ears plugged.
Girls with cheeks smeared with thanaka (sun block made from ground tree bark) balance two to a bicycle.
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