Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be unfocused or come in unprepared. I'm challenging and demanding, but very patient. I don't tell you how to get there and I don't show you what to do, though I'll ask leading questions.

American Actor

John Corey Whaley

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

American Writer

Raymond Kelly

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

American Public Servant

Rory MacDonald

I can't just keep fooling around every other fight. Have a few good fights and then get unfocused again and have a couple bad fights. I really have to stay the course and stay focused.

Adriano Zumbo

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing to do with school.

Australian Chef

Sam Graves

The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

American Politician

Julia Holter

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

American Musician

Christina Baker Kline

My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

American Novelist

Liam Payne

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

English Musician

Michael Korda

English Novelist

Unfocused can be used to describe a physical state, like a photograph or image that lacks clarity.

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It's often used metaphorically to describe thoughts or concepts that lack clear definition or precision.

Metaphorically Speaking

'Unfocused' highlights a temporary state of not giving attention, which can be involuntary or voluntary.

Attention and Focus

When describing a person, 'unfocused' suggests a lack of engagement with the current situation.

Behavior Observation

Use 'unfocused' to imply that actions or efforts are not directed towards a specific objective.

Lack of a Goal

It implies a need for more organization or structure in performing tasks or pursuing goals.

Lacks Organization

'Unfocused' can describe effort that is expended, but not effectively used because it is too scattered.

Nuance of Effort

 unfocused and the amount of people that he was able to gather to hear the word was a reflection of that when I experienced your service I don't really remember what you said because it was exhausting emotion only takes you so far when I connect with you and you give me knowledge then it takes me a lot further

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 Jamal was brilliant, but unfocused. He would squirm in his chair during independent work, and he would never stay still for more than three or four minutes. Students like Jamal can perplex brand new teachers because they're not quite sure how to support young people like him.

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 but those far away are out of focus. But when the focus point is behind the retina, people are hyperopic, or long-sighted. For them, objects close up are unfocused, but distant objects are crystal clear. Finally, some people have a cornea with a non-spherical shape

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 wicked temper but it's got poor eyesight so long as you're fairly fit and there's plenty of trees around you can't get away intimidating but not an ultimate defender it's too unfocused as they say

Unfocused

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