The shallow depth of field can be used to emphasize certain details and deemphasize others (in bokeh style, for example), especially combined with camera movements.

Urbain used a laser pointer to emphasize details that had no interest for Eberly.

His focus remains on architecture, emphasizing details in the building.

(Ms. Bear often chooses to emphasize details of no great interest.)

The page was a tangle of words and looping arrows and little boxes emphasizing significant details.

Tableaux involve students creating visual pictures with their bodies, emphasizing key details and relationships (Wilheim, 2002).

Toolbar icons emphasize their outline form, rather than subtler visual details.

The added lines emphasize certain details, yet at the same time they dissolve, to some extent, the viewer's sense of the wood's physical solidity.

His approach was to emphasize details, not generalities.

The first group of schoolchildren emphasized details because, as sensers, they were inherently careful about facts.