hold attention

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But the film’s narrative engine remains too choppy and clunky, and the characters too cursorily developed, to hold attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2017

She did not know how to gain and hold attention.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

Then they build a site with visuals and messages designed to grab the audience, usually millennials, and hold attention.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2016

It was evident as we worked together on the ideas that became Fascinate, Sally’s groundbreaking book on how to get and hold attention in a distracted world.

From Forbes • Jun. 17, 2014

But it makes a great difference whether we do thus really observe, whether we hold attention to the thing in hand, and see what it contains.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman