Sentence examples for a sort of focal from inspiring English sources

But, he said, "If Sept. 11 continues to be such a sort of focal point for people's fear, or for honoring those who died, then eventually you just have to give up".

A: Sort of.

I decide the Stone Circle – a sort of catch-all spiritual focal point on a rise at the southern edge of the site – might be a good place to kick off my Glastonbury career, but it soon becomes clear that anyone seeking to draw attention to themselves in the circle faces impressive competition.

Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.

He's a sort-of broken Tony Soprano.

And in Flintoff they had a talisman to provide the sort of focal point to their efforts supplied once by Ian Botham and then Darren Gough.

Some sort of focal point is needed to punctuate your dark pocket of green and lift it up out of the doldrums.

4. McGinn (2004 pp. 27-8) claims that it is impossible to experience both a visual and an auditory image simultaneously, because imagery depends on attention and we cannot give the right sort of focal attention to two different things at once.

The finds could shed light on a turning point in the development of culture "in which humans first began to regularly use fire both for cooking meat and as a focal point — a sort of campfire — for social gatherings," said archaeologist Ruth Shahack-Grofs of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

In both, Fiorucci brought off what Hulanicki had failed to do, at least economically, when she moved Biba into a vast former London department store: he created a place that could be a club for the like-minded and the focal point of a sort of passeggiata – somewhere to walk, to see and be seen, and to eat.

The voyeuristic audience watched the models become the focal point, in a sort of unexpected way, as their lips, teeth and throats were projected onto the canvas behind the runway in real time.