soft focus
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of soft focus
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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A tender city romance about about gentrification and Black melancholy, “Love, Brooklyn” brings together appealing actors and the charms of New York’s ever-changing borough into soft focus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
And gone is the soft focus, the half-smile and the parted lips from her official portrait last time she was in the White House.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
Popular ideas about preschool usually involve a soft focus on cuddly kids, not the stuff of tough public policy or hard numbers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
“This play actually goes the other way and shows the three of them without a soft focus at all. I really think that we see three very flawed egomaniacs.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Then, either with a soft focus or a sharp focus lens, I enlarge to whatever size I want and whatever effect I'm after.
From Pictorial Photography in America 1921 by Pictorial Photographers of America
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