It was more than his relations with a woman he loved that were in danger: it was his belief and trust in Woman, focussed in her self symbolically, that were threatened.
They focussed upon Thebes, upon the white hotel, upon a modern world they could not recognise--upon his very windows.
He was no judge of poetry or music; he did not understand the meaning of the words exactly; he knew only that both words and music expressed the shadow of tragedy in the air as though they focussed it into a tangible presence.
After that, for a full fifteen minutes his thoughts were focussed upon the thing before him.
Indeed, as Johnny focussed his attention upon this mysterious stranger, he appeared to waver, as if he might fall.
Everything must be focussed on the central incident, and to this end every member of the company must think first and all the time of the play, and not indulge in those hateful individual touches of "pantomime.
Such objections seem almost beyond argument, for no practical observer could use an improperly focussed instrument without at once discovering the defect.
Another objection is that, in using such large and long-focussed instruments, a much higher power must necessarily be employed than in the case of smaller instruments.
This time there was no swaying round the rays were kept focussed on the "E Something.
Sweeping my glass round to the quarter from whence the query came, I focussed on a phiz which, despite its mask of lather, I should have recognized as Cockney just as surely in Korea or Katmandu as on the banks of the Kiel Canal.
It dissolved and disappeared as my glass focussed on it, only to raise its amorphous blur again a point or so further abeam.
One's whole attention is focussed on the comer-in.
Goethe, you may be sure, enjoyed the hero-worshipful gaze focussed on him from all the tables of the Caffe' Greco.
He focussed his glasses on the main road first; picked up the Medina branch to the gate, followed the trail on up the draw, and again he picked up a man riding a bay horse.
He made sure that the sun had swung around so it would not shine on the lenses and betray him by any heliographic reflection, and focussed his glasses upon the two.
There were several questions which Helen May wanted to ask, but she only gave him a hasty, imploring glance which Starr did not see at all, since his eyes were focussed on the pinnacle.
Next I aimed the camera carefully andfocussed it on a point above the drawer on the writing-table where any one would be likely to stand if he attempted to open it.
To his surprise he saw a round spot of light from an electric flashlightfocussed on his desk.
Neergard's close-set eyesfocussed a trifle closer to Selwyn's, yet did not meet them.
Our deeper sympathies are focussed rather on Antony's heart, on the inward fall to which the enchantment of passion leads him, and the inward recovery which succeeds it.
Seaton lowered the vessel to the ledge, focussed the main anchoring attractor upon it, and threw on the zone of force.
As the Skylark leaped away, Seaton focussed an attractor upon the one who had apparently signaled the attack.
Each reflector apparently focussed upon an object in the center, a helix which seemed to writhe luridly in that flaming focus, glowing with a nacreous, opalescent green light.
Why is the search-light continually focussed upon a two or three years space of life "mid the blank miles round about?
It was not often that the entire throng in the Colosseum focussed its attention on anyone fighter.
When in this mystic condition of consciousness he focussed his mind on the "Night Thoughts," the pencilled ideas resulting are liberal, spacious, empyrean.
He had a startlingly naive and original mental perspective, and he focussed profound and virgin thought on Life, Spirit and Art.
I then turned the telescope towards that point, and focussed for distinct vision of distant objects, so that the outline of the house was seen out of focus.
To ascertain this the telescope should be directed to the moon, or (better) to Jupiter, and accurately focussed for distinct vision.
To determine whether the spherical aberration is corrected, the telescope should be directed towards a star of the third or fourth magnitude, and focussed for distinct vision.
It would be well if the eye-pieces intended for a telescope were so constructed that when the telescope is focussed for one, this might be replaced by any other without necessitating any use of the focussing rack-work.
Other officers began to gather on the terrace, glasses persistently focussed on the nearer woods.
Around him lay his men, flat on the ground, eyes focussed on the turn in the road below.
Upon the police group became focussed the glances of light eyes and dark eyes, round eyes, almond-shaped eyes, and oblique eyes.
Four men were standing there, and four pairs of eyes were focussed upon the stair-head.
As the bell rang that summoned him to the carpet in the cashier's office it seemed as though the eye of everyone of his associates was raised from the work that had employed their attention and was focussed upon him.
Hicks' black eyes glittered and focussed themselves, a concentrated stare at a minutely small spot between Coglan's eyes.
Hicks narrowed his black eyes again, and focussed them on Coglan, who turned away uneasily.
Every eye in the room focussed upon the tiny flower bearer, among them the wrathful pair of Mrs. Elvira Burton.
And all this and more that I gathered, I focussed on the sea hog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "focussed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
