All 4 Uses of
focus
in
Brave New World
- In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.
p. 31..5focussed = concentratedunconventional spelling: Most English-speaking regions prefer to spell this focused.
- Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls 'the soul,' which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him …
p. 158..9
- Their attention was now focused on the black cash-box, which the young man had placed on the table, and was now in process of unlocking.
p. 209..7 *focused = concentrated
- He looked up, startled, from his digging, from his thoughts; looked up in a dazzled bewilderment, his mind still wandering in that other world of truer-than-truth, still focused on the immensities of death and deity; looked up and saw, close above him, the swarm of hovering machines.
p. 254..9focused = concentrating
Definition:
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(focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.) verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)