Sentences with word «bifocal»

Now that I'm spending more time in classrooms than the newsroom, I often face students displaying a peculiar kind of bifocal gaze divided between the front of the room and the laptop screen.

There are eyes with mirrors, eyes with optical fibres, and eyes with bifocal lenses.

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing bifocal glasses.

I have three sets of prescription glasses (computer, bifocal sunnies and clear bifocals) and they have all ended up being the same brand, which I obviously gravitate to at my eye doc: Seraphin.

The world credits Benjamin Franklin with such great inventions as the lightning rod and bifocal eyeglasses.

He was the inventor of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others) as well as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional character to share his own views on topics like politics and philosophy.

INFLATION AND THE HOUR GLASS OR BIFOCAL ECONOMY Stock markets will benefit less from low interest rates.

What accounts for this curiously bifocal judgment?

He said: «He should set up two bifocal committees, one to work under his supervision on anti-corruption fight and the other committee to work under his supervision on governance.

An optical scientist at the University of Arizona, he and a colleague have come up with a new approach to bifocal spectacles that may one day revolutionize the way people past a certain age look at menus in restaurants.

A different twist on the same technology could produce lenses that work better than current bifocal contact lenses.

Thus, Hafed's team thinks of the «lens» in the SC more as bifocal glasses.

Sequential Systemic Administrations of Combretastatin A4 Phosphate and Radioiodinated Hypericin Exert Synergistic Targeted Theranostic Effects with Prolonged Survival on SCID Mice Carrying Bifocal Tumor Xenografts Junjie Li, Marlein Miranda Cona, Feng Chen, Yuanbo Feng, Lin Zhou, Guozhi Zhang, Johan Nuyts, Peter de Witte, Jian Zhang, Jie Yu, Raymond Oyen, Alfons Verbruggen, Yicheng Ni Theranostics 2013; 3 (2): 127 - 137.

Alongside the Volvo 740, 940 or 960, even bifocal close, it will be impossible to separate the 850 from siblings who were never Miss Sweden in the first place.

The viewer is always described as in motion even if that motion is only the constant micromuscular adjustments that are the corporealized condition of bifocal vision.»

The larvae of the sunburst diving beetle are the only known animal to have bifocal lenses.

The founding father invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses.

Without this bifocal religious affirmation of meaning and protest, we could not have survived the harshness of our oppression in the American environment.

Christian nurture must also be bifocal.

These glasses must be bifocal!

It's a rather lame alibi — bifocal glasses — but I do get a sympathetic response from those who remember my 250 - yard drives of yore.

Its bifocal lens gives it two eyes for the price of one.

The larvae have six pairs of eyes, two of which Buschbeck has confirmed have bifocal lenses — which focus light in two slightly separate planes.

He notes that one randomized controlled trial showed that providing an additional pair of distance vision, single - vision glasses for outdoor mobility use — as opposed to bifocal or progressive addition lenses — can reduce falls rate.

I had my left hand on my face (in part to push up my glasses as I need more of the bifocal area of my glasses when I sit at the computer - yes, I get my eyes checked at the end of this month), but my legs weren't crossed - because I rarely cross them when sitting on the bar stool (we have breakfast on the kitchen island and I'm still here finishing up my blog reading / writing).

Manna's interest in how land is affected by anthropogenic processes is one found in the work of many artists today, whether in the bifocal perspective on mining pursued in Ben Russell's stunning Good Luck (2017), or in the entanglements of bats and wind turbines in Maeve Brennan's Jerwood / FVU award commission Listening in the Dark (2018).

The gaze is bifocal, as though the artist regards her subjects with one eye on (or in) Western culture and the other in (or on) the culture of the East.

Pradeep's essay «A Bifocal Frame of Reference» was included in Western Artists and India (Thames and Hudson, 2013).

Howard Singerman, a publications editor for the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, has a bifocal view of the shows: He wrote a catalogue essay for the Newport Harbor Art Museum's current show of work by 58 graduates of the California Institute of the Arts.