The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.

During this scene, the boy’s face shifts subtly from soft focus into sharp focus.

One is a story of betrayal, how almost two decades of hard work and advocacy that produced a visionary plan for a low-rise arts district that preserved the area’s past was shunted aside in favor of plans for megatowers and cookie-cutter urban development.

Usage notes: In this sense, it may be followed by the adposition to in relation to the person being influenced, and for or to in relation to the idea or activity: