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bring into focus

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bring something into focus 
1. Lit. to make something seen through lenses sharply visible. I adjusted the binoculars until I brought the bird sharply into focus. The flowers were brought into focus by adjusting the controls.
2. Fig. to make something clear and understandable. I think we will have a better discussion of the problem if you will say a few words to bring it more sharply into focus. Please try to bring your major point into focus earlier in the essay.
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95 Hardcover N8219 Koenig (art history, North Central College, Illinois) explores how three late-20th-century artists use visual forms that are difficult for the eye to make out, that are impossible to bring into focus or resistant to conventional methods of interpretation, or that jolt or disquiet the viewer by not carrying through with what they initially seemed to promise.
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