Sentence examples for slightly unfocused from inspiring English sources
Walter Benjamin maintained that architecture is fully experienced peripherally, through slightly unfocused perceptions.
Down a lightly trafficked hallway stands a slightly unfocused photograph of two children; the smaller one appears to be preparing to throw a tantrum.
He went with the church group because his girlfriend was going, and he can't help noticing "that beatific, slightly unfocused expression one finds in do-gooders".
All this might work for Wagner's gods-and-monsters operas, but Die Meistersinger is a very human drama, and there's a distance between us and the characters that even these vivid yet slightly unfocused performances can't bridge.
For example, www.skimaps.com features hundreds of trail maps (though many are slightly unfocused), and www.skicentral.com, perhaps the most complete links directory on the Web, offers access to hundreds of resorts' Web sites.
There was a slightly unfocused version of Paul Simon's "I Do It for Your Love," which Evans covered toward the end of his life; Ms. Spalding, who is also a singer, put her light voice to it.
She is friendly enough but appears somewhat unfocused.
But I sometimes feel, because there are so many outlets these days, that plays get shunted on to the stage in a slightly raw, unrevised, unfocused state.
Engel's nine stories are narrated by a slightly older and wiser Sabina, who recalls vignettes from her unfocused 20s in New York and Miami; her youth and adolescence in the suburbs; and in the last story, "Madre Patria," a family vacation in Colombia when she was 7. Engel's sturdy, unflashy sentences aren't for savoring.
Where Ms. Kelm's oeuvre in the past has seemed soft and unfocused or too similar to other artists (Josephine Pryde, Collier Schorr, Josephine Meckseper and Mr. Etheridgege), here it feels slightly more resolved.
The device takes advantage of the fact that when a cell is struck by an unfocused beam from an infrared laser, the light's momentum stretches the membrane ever so slightly.
