How To Use Unfocused In A Sentence

The research is too unfocused to have any significant impact.
Her gaze, unfocused, fell on the swath of ivory silk adorning the richly hued carpet. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The reeds and trumpets sounded a little muddy and unfocused on the opener, Bake. Times, Sunday Times
I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
The research is too unfocused to have any significant impact.

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Her black eyes were unfocused, her other hand absent-mindedly fondling the pocketed switchblade.
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.
His eyes were unfocused, looking off into the distance.
Slowly, her gaze traced up to his eyes; his eyelids fluttered open, and for a second, his gaze was unfocused, searching blindly upon the stark hospital ceiling.
It premiered in 1993 and while it showcases Ball's trademark ability with dialogue, the play's plot is somewhat unfocused.
I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
Solastian was half-asleep now and leaning against the door window, eyes half-closed and unfocused and breath fogging up the glass.
On the other hand, for unfocused conditions assuming a beam area of 1 cm2 which is maybe an upper limit for the lasers used, 0.1 cm2 might be slightly better - personal communication E Rabett the fraction of NO2* will be about 0.003 and saturation will not be an issue. Rabett Run
Two empty-faced women, like bombed-out buildings themselves, stood near us, their eyes unfocused.
Unfocused interaction has to do largely with the management of sheer and mere copresence. Behavior in Public Places
He turned his head in her direction, opening his eyes, their unfocused gaze resting somewhere out there.
the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence
Luni's eyes were slightly unfocused, and he looked like he was not paying very much attention to the princess.
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.
Blurring the pixellated images slightly makes them appear unfocused but more natural. Times, Sunday Times
There is a sort of pervasive melancholy, but also an unfocused hope for the future.
He delivers emotions other than dull gloominess and unfocused anger, and he does it in style.
In ground - penetrating radar profile, the image of subsurface structure is distorted and unfocused due to diffractions.
Her eyes were unfocused, as if she were staring inside at her memories of the day.
The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens.
Blatant desire shone in his watery, unfocused eyes.
He was aflutter with both excitement and anger, so his normally sharp and tactful mind was scattered and unfocused.
The little distractions and diversions that once seemed to add to the richness of the texture now feel like unfocused rambling.
Rob rushes up to her as she gazes at him with unfocused eyes.
If the show is unfocused, the individual works will merely be illustrative of a topic, rather than adding up to some sort of statement.
I sat on the bed with my feet up, feeling pretty open and filled with unfocused excitement.
I make no apologies for being a lazy, unfocused bum who fritters away opportunities.
A roofline so soft and round it practically has a fontanel; huge and slightly unfocused headlamps; a grille that seems to be missing a binkie. For the Cheerleader in Everyone
His script is unfocused, his direction uneasy; this film even lacks the visual splendor normally associated with epics and costume dramas.
In the Munich painting, the artist has rendered the child, eyes straying and unfocused, reaching almost blindly for the Virgin's carnation.
Her large supporting cast never really comes to life, and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow.
Rem's gaze grew unfocused. " You fail to see the potential, Doctor.
There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
I've said it before on this blog and I'll say it again - there is a considerable lake of freefloating, unfocused discontent out there, and the party who can channel it will win.
Her eyes were glazed, unfocused, trying to peer into a distant past which now seemed to be lost for ever. WALL GAMES
But for now, she is in the grip of a blind, unfocused anger.
Instead, I wandered free as a bird across Michelin maps and estate agents' websites, and used house-hunting as an excuse for a series of pleasantly unfocused trips to parts of France I hardly knew at all.
The edgeless, and nearly plotless Pippin, is too well meaning and too unfocused to generate interest outside of a few of the musical numbers. Bring Out Your Dead
The strategy was so unfocused that it could not be implemented without ‘considerable reworking’, she said.
They must stop looking leaderless, fumbling, unfocused, disorganized, and confused.
His sapphire blue eyes fixed on people with crazy, unfocused intensity. Seminary Boy
at their edges things were pretty much unfocused
It is not perhaps surprising that the administration now appears so indecisive and unfocused.
His rage was unfocused and undirected, and as such he was forcing it to stay inside, if nothing else, to save his composure.
The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens.
And with that unfocused and slightly soppy sentiment, I'm off to bed.
Your suggestibility and general cluelessness reminds me of nothing more than the unfocused frustration and misappropriation of founding principles that characterizes the Teabagging Right. Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option
The General's eyes were unfocused, lost in memory.
The picture is also jumpy and unfocused at times, which also lends credence to the high-resolution argument.
The emotional couplet thus produced combines furious glee and abject melancholy, helpless vulnerability and unfocused rage.
He sighed and let his lids flutter open, icy blue depths meeting an unfocused cloudless sky blue.
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.
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.
Since taking on responsibility for the legacy in the wake of criticism that it was unfocused and unco-ordinated, Ford and OPLC chief executive Andrew Altman have addressed complaints that local people would not benefit from the planned new housing, and sought to leave a sporting heritage in the park. London 2012: Boris Johnson unveils housing plan for Olympic park
All ran around in a sort of wild, unfocused fury. Times, Sunday Times
Bearded and black-capped, he avoids our gaze with unfocused eyes.
No wonder dreaming is so chaotic, bizarre, unfocused, and unremembered.
In particular, engaging in adulterous/cheating relationship will result in a disturbed and an unfocused mind, vulnerable to bribery as one will be more intent to hide the wrong relationship. Meghan McCain: Sanford affair is 'private matter'
There may on occasions be sound educational reasons for adopting a style of interaction in which unfocused questions predominate.
Due to the slight blur of the line, these images are slightly unfocused and appear more impressionistic since colors and details flow evenly together.
And he has a most distressing ally in this effort, a media suddenly gone mushy and unfocused.
Where the actual film is unfocused, slack and sentimental, the trailer for Uncle Buck is a minor masterpiece.
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.
She looked the worst of them all, with slightly unfocused eyes and breath that smelled of alcohol and smoke.
But older critics, the ones who saw their gender as the most central inhibitor of political parity, the ones who were weighing sexism against other oppressions and pointing out that women often came last in line, worried that the breadth of intersectional priorities thinned the interest in women, vilified older white women and left feminists too unfocused to move forward. Big Girls Don’t Cry
It is more than free association or an unfocused interior monologue. The Sun
Wd very much have thought Toby was aiming for iconoclastic, not iconic, also unforced or unfocused? AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The writing is torpid, the characters unfocused, the situations barely credible.
All the old certainties are gone, there's minority threat all about, and everywhere, like black smoke from factories, an unfocused fear and dread.
Americans have recently lived in a country where collective anxiety was diffuse and unfocused.
He presented what seemed to be two unfocused photos of foliage in red and black, respectively.
More Peggy Noonan Read Peggy Noonan's previous columns click here to order her new book, Patriotic Grace The claim of Abdulmutallab's post-Miranda talkativeness followed Republican accusations that the administration has been lax, lumbering and unfocused in its attitude toward terrorism. Question Time Isn't the Answer
Yet if I speak softly to her, she turns her unfocused eyes toward my face. Christianity Today
Soft, sloppy goals caused by panicky clearances and unfocused defending have blighted their play.
His father seemed to have ignored his response, and turned his unfocused eyes to look at Dimitri.
Business leaders and financial markets were moaning about unfocused policies and the mounting budget deficit.
Lacking that, tactics will also seem unfocused and ineffective.
The knight looked over with unfocused eyes, flicking back and forth like a caged animal.
It is more than free association or an unfocused interior monologue. The Sun
His longest chapter is devoted to the Irish insurrection of 1641, an unpremeditated but also disorganised, unfocused and bloody effort to improve property rights and secure religious freedoms.
But the others seemed a little flat and unfocused, with the singer straining to reach shrill highs and smouldering lows. Times, Sunday Times
Where the actual film is unfocused, slack and sentimental, the trailer for Uncle Buck is a minor masterpiece.
He looks down at Tristan, who still gazes silently at him through glassy unfocused eyes.
He looked up at Christine through very unfocused eyes.
Jack's eyes were unfocused, his gaze tossed onto a random spot on the wall.
The film's disappointing performance was laid at its documentary style and unfocused lack of drama.
It is not perhaps surprising that the administration now appears so indecisive and unfocused.
Her eyes were blank and unfocused.
This year, Democrats are undertaking something harder: to channel unfocused anger at business greed into an anti-Republican tide.
The world shimmered blurrily through Bren's unfocused eyes.
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.
But this is pretty lame stuff - dated, superficial, unfocused and only intermittently engrossing.
She looked up at him with a disconcerted, unfocused gaze, her normally clear ice blue eyes covered with a dazed, cloudy film.
Working from the text and his imagination, the self-taught and self-destructive Williams contributed 159 drawings, from cartoonish thumbnails to the introductory full-page rendering of Tom that presented him in an almost pre-Raphaelite aura: wreathed in curls, with full lips and unfocused upcast eyes. Mark Twain
And on Saturdays, young men in linen trousers lined up to drink papa's bourbon, and get close to Blanche; flowers in her hair, eyes unfocused, why yes I'd like another drink you silly goose. Belle Reve
As a sputtering knife-wielding hooligan, she's unfocused rage and violence.
Lucente's work indulges passive meaninglessness and unfocused ambiguity.
But for now, she is in the grip of a blind, unfocused anger.
Her gaze was still unfocused, but the head was at least facing the right direction. LOSING IT
Bolton and Cheney's ham-fisted approach to foreign policy did catastrophic damage to our reputation and our values, and whatever shrieks of support he has for Cheney should be taken for what they are: the rantings of a representative of an undisciplined, unfocused and amoral clique. Cheney named Conservative of the Year
If the dish plonked before our unfocused eyes was not radioactive red, we would miss it with our spoons.
It is more than free association or an unfocused interior monologue. The Sun
There was something of that attitude, I thought, behind her unfocused mannerisms: a fixity, a precise definition of her own independence. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
His script is unfocused, his direction uneasy; this film even lacks the visual splendor normally associated with epics and costume dramas.
diversity...in our huge unfocused country
As a result, the film can seem a little skittish and unfocused. Times, Sunday Times
What could have been an unfocused art movie is raised above the ordinary by Bill Murray's comic brilliance.

How To Use Unfocused In A Sentence

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