Word: focal
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...Connor's selection of text seems to be centered most strongly on religion, certainly an apt focal point for any modern Irish production. The audience witnesses the young Joyce wrestling with the yoke of religion, especially as emblematized by his mother--he is willfully, brashly iconoclastic. The more mature Joyce creates Leopold Bloom, who has settled on universal love as the only acceptable doctrine...
...larger theory. He assumes that Darwinism claims to predict the future. It doesn't. This is only one among several instances in which the narrator twists the ideas of others to fit his theory. The narrator consistantly employs this and other tactics to divert the discussion from the focal issues of the philosophies he refutes...
...series pieces (a number of diptychs and one triptych) are characterized by an even field of brush strokes, heavy layering of paint and the lack of focal point. In a lesser artist these techniques would seem hackneyed and dull. But Bush's individual brush stroke and dynamic use of color eliminate the potential problem. For example, Untitled I shows a spectrum of vibrant colors painted in brisk, assertive strokes which cover two canvases. The resulting piece has neither a central form nor dominant color. Instead the interplay of colors and the rich texture spread equally over the work, leading...
Many students and faculty agree that one of the first steps towards improving environmental studies at Harvard is the creation of a focal point for the discipline. Without any central administration, the study of the environment has become balkanized among the College and each of the graduate schools, Norris says...
After earning a law degree from Harvard, Seidman returned to his native Michigan and got an M.B.A. at Ann Arbor. One focal point of youthful idealism in those days was Michigan's Governor George Romney, so Seidman served as his special assistant for financial affairs. After doing a turn in the family's accounting firm of Seidman & Seidman, he moved to Washington as President Ford's chief economic adviser. With the coming of Jimmy Carter, Seidman went back into business as vice chairman of the Phelps Dodge mining company, then headed the business school of Arizona State University at Tempe...