What is "unfocusing"

Usage examples of "unfocusing".

Flaccid muscles, lack of reflexes, pasty skin, unfocusing eyes, loose mouth.

She saw the unfocusing of Denys's eyes, and rapped the table sharply with her knuckles.

He threw the sheets back and got out of bed, unfocusing his eyes where it came to his own body.

Baedecker had learned how to lessen his fear of audiences by slightly unfocusing his eyes when he spoke.

He had to force himself back to reality, even though reality kept receding before him, buzzing in his ears, unfocusing his eyes.

He found that he was unconsciously unfocusing his eyes to spare himself a clear view of the carnage he had been, and was, causing.

Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his con­sciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.