It contains fights and shootouts and big chase scenes, but they're all firmly centered on who the characters are and what they mean to one another".

The third is a pocket of calm: hymn tunes firmly centered in familiar harmony and rooted to the ground by the solid fugal setting.

The two rats Sneezewort and Lousewort kept their weapons firmly centered on Midge and Tammo, suspicious of their every move.

In a country where every town seems to have its own opera house, there is no single metropolis like New York where publishing, art, theater and music are all firmly centered.

He particularly appreciated the solidity of the facade - clearly and firmly centered by the entry door and the bowed-out stone balcony on the second floor.

Although the lake thus formed expanded steadily, the wall of ice - thickly built and firmly centered in its frame of granite bedrock - held back the pressure.

The play's other relationships are more convincing, especially those centered on Ms. Ryan's firmly grounded, warmly drawn Stella, who does indeed seem to belong divisively to the worlds of both Stanley and Blanche.

The blinking green circle was now a dull red, firmly centered on the ship he was pursuing.

The College seeks to develop the moral, religious, and academic potential of pupils by firmly centering their lives on God and the Gospel values of Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Peace, Justice and Hope.

Mr. Boulez's devotion to the music of his teacher has always been centered firmly on the works Messiaen wrote in the late 50's and early 60's, when he was learning from his former student as he made his music more splintered in form, irregular in rhythm and abstract in imagery.