focalize
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Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore
Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
Now comes one of those remarkable facts of super-epochal history," continues Bonsall, "which go to show that when revolutionary periods focalize, revolutions in public sentiment are brought about in almost a twinkling.
From Labor and Freedom by Eugene V. Debs
Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
A little wearied from the strain of focalized effort, Johnny looked out across the blur of faces.
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
One does not expect spectacular variety in the life of an educator, particularly in one whose labors for fifty years were focalized on one spot.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
In history attention must be focalized on modern movements College history courses end thirty to fifty years ago.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper
Many varied phases of this problem may present themselves, but the mental forces are focalized upon one subject at a time.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
This individualistic development of the communal principle is its intensive development; it is the focalizing and centralizing of the consciousness of the national unity in each individual member.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
