Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweet moodiness, poignantly illuminated with bright and powerful descriptive flashes. The prose has a rather softly persuasive rhythm, and blends the specific qualities of sight and sound and feeling with the dreamlike removal of remembered childhood. "(He) mused with half-closed eyes which went in and out of focus with sleepiness, upon the slow twinkling of the millions of heavy leaves on the trees and the slow flashing of the blades of the corn...and everything hung dreaming in a shining silver haze..." In his treatment of the boy's father's Agee shows a sure power of characterization, even...
...studied the rosier light on Rouen cathedral, yet no one would compare the invariably pleasant Hassam with trail-blazing Monet. Where Monet had created new problems to solve, Hassam skillfully ducked old ones. For example, the clock faces in his Church could not have been painted in sharp focus without violating his soft focus view of the building, nor could they have been done in soft focus without frustrating man's natural urge to read clocks-so he simply hid them in leaves...
...have become institutionalized into a professional pressure group, and have taken on some of its unpleasant characteristics. No issue is too large or small for your focus. You complain about tin can labels, where the Navy parks its ships. Like the American Legion you seem to accept the conspiracy theory of history," he accused...
Just before they come to a focus, the rays enter a vacuum chamber through a sheet of salt (transparent to infrared) and form their image on the blackened surface of a thin sheet of plastic. The other side of the plastic is covered with a film of silicone...
This dramatic development depends primarily on an ever-widening focus of significance. The story begins as The Hobbit, a charming "fairy tale for my children" written twenty years ago, but grows up into the trilogy on an adult level. Within this saga the emphasis expands from personal to national to historical, thus heightening the seemingly untenable dramatic pitch...