But throughout the middle ages this common focus on style had led to undue consideration of style as ornament.

While darkness gathered, Sleeping Dawn lay in the bunch grass with her eyes focused on the camp below.

Won't you, please?" Whaley's blank poker stare focused on her.

There was, she had found, a certain amount of this to be gone through before Bobby would focus on the personal.

[Illustration: Fig. 128.Diagram illustrating the Manner in which the Image of an Object is brought to a Focus on the Retina.]

In the camera, the artist uses a thumb-screw to bring to a focus on the sensitive plate the rays of light coming from objects at different distances.

By the action of the crystalline lens, aided by the refractive media, the rays of light that are parallel when they fall upon the normal eye are brought to a focus on the retina.

The eye may be free from disease and perfectly sound, and yet vision be indistinct, because the rays of light are not accurately brought to a focus on the retina.

By means of a convex lens it may be focused on the retina without accommodation (dotted lines).

As a matter of fact I kept my entire attention focused on the looking-glass.

And it's why these efforts suffer from the worst symptoms of consumer culture: they focus on short-term ideals, they encourage impulsive, image-driven decision-making and they aim to convince people that their mouse-clicking is some kind of direct action.

The eye must be focused on the bull's-eye or mark and not on the front or rear sight.

For the first time he caught a focus on his father, with his pompous pride and his stilted diction; on his mother's social creed.

A Riles Blaster, he pronounced, allowed one to focus on what mattered.

He was universally popular, but he rarely spoke to anyone; he focused on the workhow to do it better, how to do it faster.

And until the front door banged behind her he remained standing before the fireplace, his eyes focused on the tragic figure of Naomi.

She focused on him clearly at once and it was a startling thing to see the distant figure shoot suddenly close to her, distinct in every detail, and every detail an item of perfect beauty.

But he was focused on his work and didn't look up in my direction.

You cannot focus on details when using a wide-angle lens in your camera.

One always wanted to focus on the more real issues of the people.

Focus on murder, by Dale Clark, pseud.

Focus on murder, by Dale Clark, pseud.

Between 1450 and 1575, Western Indian painting continued to focus on Jain themes, adulterated to only a very slight extent by subjects drawn from poetry.

You let your wife tend to the housekeeping and you focus on earning money with which she can keep house.

His whole ambition now was focused on providing a successor to his crown (Josephine had failed him in this important matter); and in Marie Louise of Austria he not only saw the prospective mother of his heir, but an alliance with one of the great reigning houses of Europe, which would lend a much-needed glamour to his bourgeois crown.