Sentence examples for focus on the object from inspiring English sources

For example, Nenets tymʔ xada-v 'I killed a deer (focus on the agent)' versus tymʔ xada-dmʔ 'I killed a deer (focus on the object),' in which -v signifies 'I…it' (the objective conjugation) and -dmʔ signifies 'I' (the subjective conjugation).

But the great appeal of the show may also have to do with its focus on the object.

"One can't have anything that would have any element of critique, or anything that would push anyone to really actually focus on the object".

Paul Ekman, a groundbreaking researcher in emotions from the University of California, San Francisco, described how difficult emotions create a refractory period that narrows your focus on the object of your emotion.

She enjoys playing the bass because "it's like the foundation without being really up front"; when reviewers listen to her music, she encourages them to focus "on the object and not the person behind it".

Despite her adoption of Greenberg's focus on the object and its material qualities, she repudiated Greenberg's formalism for its lack of "method," in contrast to her own use of theoretical models such as that of Jacques Lacan.

Keep your mind focused inward or on the object.

Transfer your weight from one foot to the other, relaxing your body, but staying focused on the object in the distance.

Øyehaug succeeds, more often than not, by staying focussed on the object of her inquiry.

The obsession (and yes, it is obsessive) is focused on the object itself.

The camera then focuses on the object of his intrigue: the mattress.