focalize
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Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden
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
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
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
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
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
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
Science is Truth focalized, and there is no real science without truth.
From Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers by William Wallace Bass
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
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
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
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