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
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
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
If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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
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
When the attention was focalized in this way, the subject lost sight of the space as a whole.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
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
Patriotism has perhaps gained intensity in proportion as it has become focalized.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
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
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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