If the show is unfocused, the individual works will merely be illustrative of a topic, rather than adding up to some sort of statement. |
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The album's lyrics, many of which are raw, unfocused, love-and-sex pillow talk, are clearly secondary to the music. |
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She looked up at him with a disconcerted, unfocused gaze, her normally clear ice blue eyes covered with a dazed, cloudy film. |
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Solastian was half-asleep now and leaning against the door window, eyes half-closed and unfocused and breath fogging up the glass. |
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The picture is also jumpy and unfocused at times, which also lends credence to the high-resolution argument. |
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The view is initially clouded and unfocused by an eddy of mixing cold water and I have to circle to find a clearer view of them. |
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Democrats must stop looking leaderless, fumbling, unfocused, disorganized, and confused. |
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The little distractions and diversions that once seemed to add to the richness of the texture now feel like unfocused rambling. |
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He was aflutter with both excitement and anger, so his normally sharp and tactful mind was scattered and unfocused. |
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The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible. |
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The strength is that of the unconscious mind, the unshaped and unfocused will. |
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Soft, sloppy goals caused by panicky clearances and unfocused defending have blighted their play. |
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In the Munich painting, the artist has rendered the child, eyes straying and unfocused, reaching almost blindly for the Virgin's carnation. |
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A dense, linguistically playful writer, his books are often criticised for being unfocused. |
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Two empty-faced women, like bombed-out buildings themselves, stood near us, their eyes unfocused. |
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Evander unfocused his eyes from the street below and after a few blurry seconds, refocused them to catch his own reflection in the window pane. |
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I stared at the album until my eyes unfocused the way Coltrane's saxophone does on the cover. |
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If the dish plonked before our unfocused eyes was not radioactive red, we would miss it with our spoons. |
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The knight looked over with unfocused eyes, flicking back and forth like a caged animal. |
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Jack's eyes were unfocused, his gaze tossed onto a random spot on the wall. |
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She looked the worst of them all, with slightly unfocused eyes and breath that smelled of alcohol and smoke. |
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Luni's eyes were slightly unfocused, and he looked like he was not paying very much attention to the princess. |
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He looks down at Tristan, who still gazes silently at him through glassy unfocused eyes. |
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He turned his head in her direction, opening his eyes, their unfocused gaze resting somewhere out there. |
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His father seemed to have ignored his response, and turned his unfocused eyes to look at Dimitri. |
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Nevertheless, it should be noted that unfocused light still adds to the total collected fluorescence. |
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The only misstep in the film is the cinematography, which is fuzzy, often unfocused and fails to take best advantage of the rich natural scenery. |
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He sighed and let his lids flutter open, icy blue depths meeting an unfocused cloudless sky blue. |
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He presented what seemed to be two unfocused photos of foliage in red and black, respectively. |
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I sat on the bed with my feet up, feeling pretty open and filled with unfocused excitement. |
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I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it. |
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Business leaders and financial markets were moaning about unfocused policies and the mounting budget deficit. |
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Americans have recently lived in a country where collective anxiety was diffuse and unfocused. |
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He delivers emotions other than dull gloominess and unfocused anger, and he does it in style. |
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As a sputtering knife-wielding hooligan, she's unfocused rage and violence. |
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His rage was unfocused and undirected, and as such he was forcing it to stay inside, if nothing else, to save his composure. |
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The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage. |
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There is a sort of pervasive melancholy, but also an unfocused hope for the future. |
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It premiered in 1993 and while it showcases Ball's trademark ability with dialogue, the play's plot is somewhat unfocused. |
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They seemed to flaunt a kind of unfocused and unrigorous intensity that in almost any academic-dance classroom would be considered bad style. |
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What could have been an unfocused art movie is raised above the ordinary by Bill Murray's comic brilliance. |
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Her black eyes were unfocused, her other hand absent-mindedly fondling the pocketed switchblade. |
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Again, not particularly caring to answer to the trite political content per se, but looking at this as a song lyric, it is unfocused and scattered. |
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Meetings that are too long, unfocused and lack relevant content will leave members feeling as if their time is being wasted. |
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Lacking that, tactics will also seem unfocused and ineffective. |
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Chaotic and unfocused, though also ambitious and intriguing, the production work was at times akin to listening to two perfectly solid tracks laid overtop of one another. |
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All the old certainties are gone, there's minority threat all about, and everywhere, like black smoke from factories, an unfocused fear and dread. |
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Due to the slight blur of the line, these images are slightly unfocused and appear more impressionistic since colors and details flow evenly together. |
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Eight respondents characterized the discussion as unfocused and 4 found it to be satisfactory. |
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Given the access and penalty provisions of international regulators, an unfocused, opportunistic integration can become a real problem. |
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At 43, in a blue button-down shirt, with a greying goatee and gentle, unfocused eyes, he looks like any middle-aged man in a Toronto hotel restaurant. |
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Lucente's work indulges passive meaninglessness and unfocused ambiguity. |
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Rob rushes up to her as she gazes at him with unfocused eyes. |
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Tarantino is too unfocused to be a parodist, rather, Kill Bill conveys contempt for its characters, certainly for humanity and even the action genres that supposedly enamor the director. |
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The body of the whirler is meant to be supple, with eyes open but unfocused so that images become blurred and flowing. |
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What's frustrating is that the vehicle through which he's chosen to express this fear should be such an unfocused, truly piddly thing. |
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Our aid is scattered, unfocused, disorganized, within government, between governments and within countries of need. |
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Ellie Black rouses quietly to consciousness at around 3, her eyes unfocused, mind placid. |
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But many are flatter, unfocused and ephemeral. Take the Maryland Bloods, which Trident was alerted to by a nasty kidnapping case last year. |
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The opposition, at least until it rallied around the cause of corruption, has been unfocused. |
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No wonder dreaming is so chaotic, bizarre, unfocused, and unremembered. |
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Lardon-free tarts are available, pleasant enough but unfocused, lacking that essential smoky striation. |
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While Heart's depiction of war as eternal is effective, the play is so unfocused and scattershot that its power to raise our indignation is diminished. |
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Because the eye cannot properly focus on empty space, vision becomes unfocused or blurred. |
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On its own merits, this unfocused, pompous and silly take on biblical history might all too quickly be forgotten. |
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So far, Mr President, I have the impression that they are being treated absolutely correctly and that therefore this debate is unfocused. |
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Party assistance has been accused-rightly or wrongly-of being too often unfocused, supply-driven and ineffective. |
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Such is the situation in every African country where there is dual, distorted and unfocused development. |
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Polishing a well-defined model based on the results obtained is easier than constantly making changes to an unfocused organization. |
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I could not use the buildings in the distance, as they were unfocused in Notman's photograph. |
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When you press the shutter button fully with one stroke, pictures may be blurry or unfocused. |
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Straight and gay men and women will keep marching into the savage machinery of an unfocused war for years to come. |
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Bearded and black-capped, he avoids our gaze with unfocused eyes. |
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And with that unfocused and slightly soppy sentiment, I'm off to bed. |
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Thanks in part to the perverse economics of apartheid, Anglo's structure has long been convoluted, its finances opaque and its strategy unfocused. |
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But this is something else – an unfocused creation of conservative leftovers, an accident of thoughts that have aged over decades into afterthoughts. |
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This is necessary, but the proposals are unfocused in their effect. |
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Recently, Canada's multicultural policy has been unfocused and often wishy-washy when approaching the promotion and protection of multiculturalism. |
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The status of its holding means it can bargain unrestrainedly with the international set to hoover up precious loans for exhibitions, as happened recently with the unfocused but popular Velázquez show. |
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As a city councillor, I saw the determination of some municipalities to use every tool at their disposal to take up the challenge, while the federal government's response remained weak and unfocused. |
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Here is the smorgasbord of life, and our unfocused eyes are even bigger than our stomachs. |
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Free time, unfocused thinking, access to alpha waves helps the brain to be creative. |
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An unfocused software strategy could prove costly over time and poses challenges of tying together disparate systems and ensuring long-term service and support. |
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The absence of clear risk identification will lead to an unfocused business continuity process and the possible inability of departments to respond to crises. |
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You lethargic, unfocused, unstable, lazy, hazy, crazy time of year. |
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The Service's response on Women Offenders was at best unfocused and failed to address either the specifics of the issues raised or my recommendations. |
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This can lead to feeling lethargic, unfocused, and stressed out. |
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But it was a clear, vital moment in an unfocused show. |
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Such costs are often caused by unnecessarily long and complicated proceedings with unfocused requests for disclosure of documents and unnecessary witness and expert evidence. |
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In particular, in situations where it was acceptable or unavoidable to formulate expected accomplishments in broad and unfocused terms, those had been combined with realistic and usable indicators of achievement. |
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This lack of consistency leads to high transaction costs, wastage, duplication of work, an unfocused approach and considerable complications for the recipient countries. |
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Far too many diversified firms have become unfocused and sloppily run. |
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Avoid impromptu, lengthy and unfocused conferences, absent a pressing need. |
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It's a witty if unfocused portrait of a May to December romance, which benefits greatly from lively performances from Thurman and Streep. |
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We're unfocused in our approach to economic development. |
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The party was criticised for its unfocused strategy while traditional Labour voters considered the party's association with the Conservatives under the Better Together umbrella campaign to be a betrayal. |
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Rafter is super unfocused, but it's the kind of unfocused that is idiosyncratic and full of weird sounds made listenable by their place within the song's structure. |
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Jim Troughton made 30 but the rest was a sorry procession of unfocused batting and loose shots with no-one from number five downwards reaching double-figures. |
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It was a well-researched if unfocused trawl through the archives that needed a better treatment than its kitchy opening sequence and voi-ceover by Stephen Fry. |
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Apart from Zenaida Yanowsky's exquisite Lady Elgar, Marianela Nunez as Isabel, and Sarah Lamb as Mary, here the work looked underrehearsed and totally unfocused. |
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