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Recent Examples of unfocused
Chief Critics Most reviews found the sequel to be unfocused and lacking a compelling enough plot to justify a sequel, with some slamming the film’s music.
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Conor Murray, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Megapolis is an unfocused tale, but the point of the film is that innovation is stifled by the wealthy and powerful, who seek to keep the world frozen in time.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Larry undergoing a mock trial is Larry at his most unfocused and obnoxious.
—Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2024
An angry, unfocused performance that offered no new information for undecided voters.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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Conor Murray, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
Megapolis is an unfocused tale, but the point of the film is that innovation is stifled by the wealthy and powerful, who seek to keep the world frozen in time.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Larry undergoing a mock trial is Larry at his most unfocused and obnoxious.
—Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2024
An angry, unfocused performance that offered no new information for undecided voters.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfocused
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In this day and age, where 4K is normal, even HD is considered blurry; however, the decision to shoot with the prosumer camcorder at a resolution of 480 on to MiniDV paid off, and Murphy’s bewildered walk through Westminster is still genuinely iconic.Carlton Reid, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
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There this brilliant but bewildered scientist gets cornered by a plutocrat with impertinent questions.Alan Scherstuhl, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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One morning, the narrator wakes up late to see that a strangely dazed Yeong-hye has disposed of all their meat—pork belly, shabu-shabu beef, dumplings, eel.Ed Park, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
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Tyson seems dazed and distracted, preoccupied with the sight of blood on his sleeve; Bodhi threatens to dissolve his partnership with Dwight and quit the business entirely.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
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Meanwhile, Hudson turns up her ditz-o-meter to 11, twirling and screaming her way through a performance that should remind Hollywood of her singular scatterbrained talents.Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
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Though a human would probably be able to figure out how to escape from a random room, even a highly mobile robot would get confused and waste time looking for doors in nonsensical places like the floors and ceiling.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
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The conversation left her confused and gutted — with dozens of questions that could take more than a year to resolve.Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
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The contrast between Blethyn’s Cynthia, all twitching nerves, emotionally raw and vulnerable, and the calm, restrained, often bemused performance of Jean-Baptiste as Hortense forms the emotional core of the film.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
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At the dining table in Turin, L. seemed bemused by all the attention, and said little.D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Back on the domestic front, Jeanine has reason to believe that her husband, Paul (Mark O’Brien), is having an affair with her senile mother’s caregiver.Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
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In one story, Earn’s seemingly routine trip to church with Gloria, Jeanie, and his senile grandfather (Bob Banks) goes pear-shaped when Gloria abruptly drives off with her dad, leaving behind Earn and a bewildered Jeanie, who has recently been their father’s caretaker.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
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Penny, a 26-year-old former Marine, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Penny, 26, is facing second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in Neely’s death in May 2023.Eric Levenson, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Unfocused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfocused. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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