focalize

Example Sentences

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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 Marden, Orison Swett

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 Debs, Eugene V.

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 Cope, Henry Frederick

We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.