They allow the telling of actions and the description of items to be focalized, that is, based on what a particular actor knows and sees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Text Auto] Reference

Sadly, no complement for Genghis, but a focalized complement for his shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Hillary's Tough Talk Towards Iran Is "Reflective Of George Bush"] Reference

Surely such cogent blending requires some powerfully focalized far observatory height!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The attention of the whole world has been focalized on China during the past few weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900] Reference

But it was muffled in the silken chords of his suspended body, and what he mentally focalized was: "How do I handle the zotl?".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Other Worlds]

Magnetism is generated by brain forces focalized by thoughts, the nerves are the medium of transfusion, colors increase the vibrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supreme Personality] Reference

He was mentally reviewing what the eld skyle had told him about focalized gravity nodes when the slither vine curled over the edge and snagged his ankle.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Other Worlds]

Ethics must become a focalized component as it is one of the missing links in modern society, as made clearly evident in the collapse of the banking system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Global Impact of Yoga] Reference

Many men are not conscious of the light that shineth within them, save as there is an aggregate of cell consciousness which recognizes its focalized power as an organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference

There is nothing mysterious concerning the power of thought; concentration simply implies that consciousness can be focalized to the point where it becomes identified with the object of its attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Key System] Reference

The narrative, focalized through its subject, Thomas Cromwell, dwells at greatest length on Henry VIII's quest for an heir and the earth-shattering social, political, and religious consequences it entailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Professor:] Reference

Every section of the book (until a few passages at the end) is so closely focalized through Mark, Karin, or Weber that even the narration of material event is voiced entirely through their cognitive process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Point of View in Fiction] Reference

Every cell, each separate cell, in fact, has its own consciousness -- that is each cell is a center of this power that we term consciousness; a group of cells with this power focalized to a given point, or center, makes an organ of consciousness, and so on up the scale through many many degrees of complexity of organism, until we come to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference

Patriotism has perhaps gained intensity in proportion as it has become focalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference

All this theological wrangling may be focalized at one point, almost on a single word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference

When the attention was focalized in this way, the subject lost sight of the space as a whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

I would like to correspond with any others who have been diagnosed with focalized dystonia of the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference

Feeling is diffused over the whole surface of the body; but light is focalized in the eye; sound in the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

We offer full coverage and analysis of breaking branding news with a special emphasis on focalized sectors like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandweek - News and Features] Reference

In some persons this is highly focalized and concentrated, and the focal ideas predominate in determining association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

Latent consciousness -- awareness -- now becomes concentrated, focalized on one point, one feeling, or emotion, or act.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference

A Scanner Darkly, in which conflicting realities are focalized through the muddle of drug-induced paranoia, the narrator of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valve] Reference

We know nothing about anyone or anything other than that focalized through Eilis, it is Eilis who reveals everything and perhaps that's why.    From Wordnik.com.  [dovegreyreader scribbles] Reference

And also where you find the wealth of the country personal, as in stocks and bonds and similar securities, locked and focalized in a few people, you find also that same spirit of rebelliousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations] Reference

His diversity of inventive genius was finally focalized on building sluiceways and canals for the government, and he set Holyoke an example by running the water back and forth in canals and utilizing the power over and over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

It must be remembered here that I mean that the filled space with the focalized attention was judged shorter than the filled space without such concentration of attention, but both of these spaces were judged shorter than the adjacent open space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

The necessity for this collocation was advocated quite as earnestly, and even more directly, by another worker of this period, whose studies were allied to those of alienists, and who, even more actively than they, focalized his attention upon the brain and its functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference

Each character feels this mess of pressures and expectations differently, but since the story is focalized through Keith's eyes and mind (if narrated slightly off to one side, by a mysterious character whose identity is only revealed much later), we are closer to his own anxieties as the story unfolds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

"We hope," said Mr. Elkins, "that this desire may be focalized locally, and grow to anything short of a disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference

There’s nothing mysterious about the power of thought; concentration simply means that consciousness can be focalized to the point where it becomes identified with the object of its attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Key System] Reference