Therefore, when we are suddenly confronted with an unknown Nature, whose power and vigour shatter all our preconceived notions, and alter the whole focus of our organs, the only possible effect at first is one of complete bewilderment.
If there is in any part of infinite space a prodigious altar of celestial fire, that focus must be Canopus.
I will focus on software--the set of instructions the machine is to perform.
Remember the focuson reducing functions to black boxes.
Focus on both the inputs to and the outputs of the creative process; protecting the latter may increase the cost of the former.
We need to focus on the inputs as well as the outputs of the process--a point I have tried to make throughout this book.
Lyons had expected to become the patroness and focus of an Anti-Jacobin league, formed by the great commercial towns, against Paris and the predominant part of the convention.
Standing before the aide's desk, they could see the commander's face come into focus on the small teleceiver screen, and they were alarmed to see Governor Hardy seated beside him.
In a moment the face of Christopher Hardy sharpened into focus on the screen.
Our business lies with Mr. Bensington at the focus of the disturbance.
Alexandria, thefocus of all the learning of the East and the West, had seen other festivals than this riotous banquet.
Popular hatred finds a convenient focus in a single man; it is easier to loathe an individual than a group.
But emotion, although it cannot teach, may focus thought and clarify the promptings of interest.
First, breath control; Second, Freedom of throat; Third, Correct focus of tone.
The village was the focus of several roads, diverging to widely distant portions of the country; and which of these the fugitives had taken, it was impossible to determine.
Her triple screens flashed into furiously incandescent splendor and she entered, unscathed, that vacuous sphere, which collapsed instantly into an enormously elongated ellipsoid, at each focus a madly warring ship of space.
Brown black eyes pivoted around in heavy lidded sockets tofocus on him, but neither Jap uttered a sound.
Before Dave could blink, and focus his eyes to the sudden change of light, he found himself in a dimly lit room that at least smelled a little less obnoxious than the coffee room up front.
And so Dave's heart pounded even more furiously against his ribs as the two policemen seemed to focus their attention on Freddy and him.
But when they did focus and the blurs took on definite shapes and outlines, he came within a hair's breadth of letting out a wild yell of amazement.
The farsighted eye is one in which parallel rays entering the eye, as from a distance, come to a focus behind the retina.
But the eye is adaptable to change of focus through the action of a certain muscle, situated within the eyeball about the lens, which controls to a considerable extent the shape of the lens.
Lack of balance of these muscles, and especially inability to focus both eyes on a near object without effort, constitute "eye-strain.
In the nearsighted eye, these rays focus at a point in front of the retina; while in the farsighted eye these rays focus behind the retina; the nearsighted eye being elongated, and the farsighted eye being shortened.
This is what happens when one looks at near objects, the increased convexity of the lens bending the rays of light so that they will focus as a point on the retina.
In the normal eye, the rays of light from an object pass through the lens, adjusted for the proper distance, and focus on the retina.
Yet when one is looking at an object within a few inches of the eye the rays diverge or spread out, and these the normal eye (if rigid) could not focus on the retina--much less the farsighted eye.
By means of an ice lens he collected the sunlight to a focus in the middle of a basin of clear water, and observed that no effect was discernible in the water.
He then directed the focus (the spot of light) on to a mote in the water.
This establishment would pretty soon become a focus of information of the most extraordinary kind.
By putting the dead Germans in the focus of the picture, and by omitting to mention the French dead, a very special view of the battle was built up.
It is the focus in which He keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth.
With the radius H E, and from J as a centre, mark point F, which will be the focus of the curve.
Place a pin in the focus F, and tie to it one end of a piece of twine.
In an ellipse there are two points situated upon the line representing the major axis, and which are termed the foci when both are spoken of, and a focus when one only is referred to, foci simply being the plural of focus.
The power to act, to summon and focus the full might of the muscles in the wink of an eye, then to hurl them into a breach had been Bill's salvation many times.
I can focus the X-rays first on the screen by means of a special quartz objective which I have devised.
The focus may be altered in range so that any one in the room may be seen and recognised and any action of his may be detected.
She had also studied his environment and the impression he made upon those who had known him longest:--she must nowfocus her mental lenses on the man himself.
A transparent lens reduces to parallelism all the luminous rays which traverse it, whatever be their original amount of divergence, provided these rays proceed from a point or focus suitably situated.
A suicide or any other kind of unpleasantness that would focus the attention of the outside world on the forgotten asteroid was definitely unwelcome.
I don't want a focus exclusively on me," Docchi was saying.
It will be found that the sight is presently drawn inwards to a focus beyond the surface of the agent.
The focus of the eye at this stage is inconstant, the pupil rapidly expanding and contracting, while the crystal or mirror alternately disappears in a haze and reappears again.
The exactfocus and consequent size of the mirror employed as most suitable to the individual is a matter of experiment.
In such case the vision has a certain definition or focus according to the degree of its proximity.
A greater degree of concavity proportionate to the diameter will produce a focus which allows the mirror to be held in the hand while resting in the lap.
While divulging the details of this aspect of the strategy would be imprudent, we willfocus our efforts on three pillars.
Second, America will focus decisive military power and specialized intelligence resources to defeat terrorist networks globally.
While we will not ignore regional or emerging threats, our operational efforts and intelligence will focus primarily upon the most dangerous groups, namely, those with global reach or aspirations to acquire and use WMD.
We will diminish the underlying conditions that terrorist seek to exploit by enlisting the international community to focus its efforts and resources on the areas most at risk.
In such a case a diffused and general detumescence has taken the place of the normal detumescence which has its main focus in the sexual sphere.
A vast number of isolated objects or acts may be exceptionally the focus of erotic contemplation, but the objects and acts which frequently become thus symbolic are comparatively few.
The ever increasing development of this new focus of vascular activity involves an increased vascular activity in the whole organism.
Even, however, if we admit that there is a real correlation between the foot and the vagina, that would by no means suffice to render the foot a focus of sexual attraction.
The former are more remote from the primary psychic focus or position, and are also more often covered, so that the sight of them is a more marked and exceptional event.
But it is also desirable because of intimately sexual associations in the act itself, as a symbolical detumescence, a simulacrum of the sexual act, and one which proceeds from the sexual focus itself.
The Foot a Normal Focusof Sexual Attraction Among Some Peoples.
No description can give any idea of what I felt--I only know that from that moment my distorted sexual focus was fixed forever.
Spain, ever tenacious of ancient ideas, appears to have preserved longer than other countries the ancient classic traditions in regard to the foot as a focus of modesty and an object of sexual attraction.
I felt that I was the focusof a group of indistinct recumbents who were talking about me to one another in many incomprehensible tongues.
Numbers five and six had reference to Monsieur, who had seated himself before I had time to focus my slightly bewildered eyes.
Her still, heifer's eyes were situate so far apart that Dickie, looking up at her, found it difficult to focus them both at the same glance.
