New albums from James Blake, Skepta, Death Grips, Anohni, and Kaytranada all came at once, a spread of vivid artists who had risen from self-contained music pockets as captains of focussed styles and subcultures.
We all agreed that the Anderson Valley has great potential to make fine pinot noir in a precise, focused style.
The legacy of Mr Mark's disciplined and highly focused style is a culture that is conservative some would say overly conservative.
"It's a brief, sharp, very focused style of intervention to get mum, dad or carer to the point where they are good-enough parents.
But his idiom remains the same: an eclectic but focused style that draws from American, French, Italian and Spanish techniques and ingredients to produce dishes that ring with fresh, energetic flavors.
In the 1890's, when the Japanese embraced photography as art, they embarked on that worldwide, soft-focus style, Pictorialism, initially taking delicate landscapes almost exclusively.
As the Post-Impressionists ventured back toward the representational, a group of photographers known as Photosecessionists experimented with a painterly, out-of-focus style.
What Ryan is good at is exploiting the willful gullibility of the Beltway media, using a soft-focus style to play into their desire to have a conservative wonk they can say nice things about.
The sense of imperial decay is exquisitely conveyed by the eerie and sui generis beauty of Mr. Sokurov's images — here he serves as his own cinematographer — which at times suggest the soft-focus style of some 19th-century photography.
Reading back issues of journals will enable familiarity with the journal's conventions (focus, style, length, organization) and it is important to tailor your paper to fit a journal's specifications, which are usually listed on their websites.
The Bluetooth now supports stereo and the camera is now an auto-focus style that's been upped to the 2-megapixel range.
