Usually what you get is a narrowly focused view of a bandleader's direction, a chunk of a discourse.
In "The Lonely Crowd" and other works, Mr. Riesman provided middle-class Americans with a sharply focused view of their major cultural preoccupations.
Where the Stern classes included groups of varied instrumentation, playing works of their choice, the Emerson is taking a more focused view.
Here, we see the first hints at an Eastern aesthetic, a focused view of a world that, because of its purity, is more spiritual.
As such, the catalog offers a unique and focused view from the eye of a tremendously energetic and industrious artist, whose purview seemed to exclude nothing.
With focused viewing, each piece of paper becomes a complex universe unto itself, within which each shape reigns as a kind of geometric deity.
Hans van Manen still ranks as the signature choreographer of Dutch National Ballet, despite the company's evolving repertory – and this homage to Van Manen's work gives UK audiences an unusually focused view of the visual complexity and musical sophistication of its style.
I feel compelled to respond with praise for David Brooks's exceptionally focused view of the United Nations' interminable debating when called upon to decide how, when and if to respond to a crisis that is concurrently spinning out of control.
Holland Cotter, in The New York Times, wrote that the exhibition presented a narrowly focused view of that tumultuous era, one "stuck on the style, or rather stuck on the effort to make one style the whole '60s story".
