soft focus
- an image, often created by a special lens, that is recognizable but somewhat blurred or diffused.
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Origin of soft focus
First recorded in 1915–20
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And Turn looks and feels like some sort of soft-focus dramatic-reenactment segment from a PBS documentary about Aaron Burr.
The Liberal ad showed a soft-focus Trudeau in a school classroom meltingly promising a “better country.”
And the costuming of the soft-focus heroine is feminine, maternal and homey.