focalize

Example Sentences

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They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one  spot the separate rays of their ability.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin

The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods