Try and stay in the mindfulness zone for the rest of the day, and if you find yourself slipping away, focus on your breath for a few seconds.
It is a measure of how far Europe has allowed the Middle East to slip from focus, that European leaders even considered such liberalisation in current circumstances.
His String Quartet No. 2 sounded tentative and a bit frayed at first, as if the foursome's attention had not yet slipped into focus.
As explained earlier, the keeper is watching your eyes and the more nervous you are, the more likely you are to slip into focusing on the net direction and the keeper than on the ball.
I scribbled notes about economy of form and the faraway landscape, but the image kept slipping out of focus, up there high on the wall, in the glare of spotlights, with a buzz of people around and the clock ticking.
That second passage, too, melted into dreamy vagueness; throughout both the "Waldstein" and the Sonata "Les Adieux" Mr. Lortie seemed intent on showing how close Beethoven's rhythms and harmonies are to slipping out of focus and out of control, using the repetitions of sonata form to underline a sense of dangerous obsession.
Allmusic's Andy Kellman complimented its "varied" subject matter and wrote in summation, "Ray Ray occasionally loses focus, slipping into moments that are either undercooked or worthy of the cutting room, but it's enjoyable enough to keep his followers happy and will certainly act as a remedy for those who don't like the gold-bricked path being taken by mainstream R&B".
Tired and a bit distracted at that late hour, the viewers let it slip by, focusing instead on their continuing admiration for General Powell, whom several described as a great potential president, and their new affection for Laura Bush, who, they said, will make an appealing first lady if her husband makes it to the White House.
A conglomerate, which must maintain many capabilities for its various types of businesses, will sooner or later find itself slipping behind more focused competitors.
A ridged or grooved metal or hard plastic "non-slip" surface can be worse than a smooth surface: the way it reduces slipping is by focusing pressure to dig opposing grooves into the skin to push against, not by harmlessly increasing surface molecular attraction as a high-friction compound like rubber would.
