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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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playing off something against something else
Can anyone please explain the meaning of the highlighted sentence?
while new digital techniques can create such images, I would suggest that Malin’s is the ultimate achievement in playing off the reality out there against a human selection and reconstruction of a part of it.
while new digital techniques can create such images, I would suggest that Malin’s is the ultimate achievement in playing off the reality out there against a human selection and reconstruction of a part of it.
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Hi - When she realised that both Jim and Fred loved her, she could not decide: she played them off against each other = to deal with or manipulate a situation so that other people are fighting it out In the sentence you give, I'd guess, Malin presents us with images that don't tell us whether they are supposed to be reality or a reconstruction of it. The two possibilities have to fight it out between themselves Dave
- Hi - When she realised that both Jim and Fred loved her, she could not decide: she played them off against each other = to deal with or manipulate a situation so that other people are fighting it out In the sentence you give, I'd guess, Malin presents us with images that don't tell us whether they are supposed to be reality or a reconstruction of it.
- The two possibilities have to fight it out between themselves Dave
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- When she realised that both Jim and Fred loved her, she could not decide: she played them off against each other
= to deal with or manipulate a situation so that other people are fighting it out
In the sentence you give, I'd guess, Malin presents us with images that don't tell us whether they are supposed to be reality or a reconstruction of it. The two possibiliti
- When she realised that both Jim and Fred loved her, she could not decide: she played them off against each other
= to deal with or manipulate a situation so that other people are fighting it out
In the sentence you give, I'd guess, Malin presents us with images that don't tell us whether they are supposed to be reality or a reconstruction of it. The two possibiliti
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