soft focus
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of soft focus
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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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
Looking back, it’s puzzling to think that Newton-John was seen as such a threat, particularly because her albums of the early and mid-1970s were captured in permanent soft focus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
A comprehensive visual aesthetic heavy on VHS fuzz, Polaroid soft focus and subversive holy imagery helped pique curiosity.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
The soft focus lens seems to be more popular than ever and it apparently has come to stay.”
From Pictorial Photography in America 1921 by Pictorial Photographers of America
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