focalize
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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
Those to whom the development of character is a reality will watch tendencies and train them before they focalize in crises.
From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope
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
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
They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden
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
All this theological wrangling may be focalized at one point, almost on a single word.
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
But attention being thus focalized on the cell contents, it was at once apparent that there is a far closer similarity between the ultimate particles of vegetables and those of animals than had been supposed.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
Magnetism is generated by brain forces focalized by thoughts, the nerves are the medium of transfusion, colors increase the vibrations.
From Supreme Personality by Delmer Eugene Croft
Many men are not conscious of the light that shineth within them, save as there is an aggregate of cell consciousness which recognizes its focalized power as an organism.
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
