fix attention

Example Sentences

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Requires much effort to fix attention while counting drops.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

More and more, however, within recent years has it been the fashion to fix attention upon his shortcomings, and this attitude has led some people to strange conclusions.

From Your Negro Neighbor by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith

Such movements increase, with too much sitting, intensity of effort, such as to fix attention, and vary with the nature of the activity willed, but involve few muscles directly used in a given task.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

The tragical end of Charles is of a nature to fix attention, and affords an excellent subject for a pencil like that of Fuseli.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

I have furnished documents for the history of the arts; I have aroused and tried to fix attention upon that luminous point which was threatened with oblivion.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various