NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art Artt in Focus: Gazes Returned, the Technical Examination of Early English Panel Painting".
The president's left eye is in finely etched focus, gazing off in deep introspection, while the rest of the face softens into a gentle blur.
Joanna Hogg is an artist and film-maker who challenges her audiences with her calm, deep-focus gaze.
With its soft-focus gaze and soundtrack of moody pop, "October Baby" is more melodramatic, and far less stark, than other recent films that deal with abortion, like the 2007 Tony Kaye documentary "Lake of Fire".
Focusing its tightly held, shallow-focus gaze on a single prisoner in whose face we see reflections of atrocities too hellish to depict, Son of Saul is indeed a stylistic masterpiece, a film of precise visual and aural design, executed with fearsome skill, precision and commitment.
Above the conference table, Michael Whouley, whip thin and balding, was all gravelly voice and fiercely focused gaze, but beneath it he was all motion.
Under his focussed gaze, characters take on uncanny, sometimes awesome, life, and, unlike most contemporary male playwrights, he can write memorable roles for women as well as men.
Gina Carano, an amateur of sorts, is a true professional fighter; she also has a remarkable, tightly focussed gaze that peeks with a laser-like penetration from beneath her brow and a throaty, grainy voice.
Mr. Sinopoli, with his bushy hair and beard, the sweeping physicality of his conducting gestures and an intensely focused gaze framed by wire-rimmed glasses, was a formidable figure both on the podium and off.
Duncan, almost certainly a future Hall of Famer, has two primary looks: a plaintive, wide-eyed stare that he gives officials when he feels wronged and a focused gaze that hardly changes, whether his team is ahead by 9 points in overtime or trailing by 18 in the first half.
Unconstrained imaging environments allow the capture of iris images at a distance, in motion and under visible wavelength illumination which lead to more noise factors such as off-focus, gaze deviation, and obstruction by eyelids, eyeglasses, hair, lighting and specular reflections.
