fix attention
Example Sentences
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I know it amuses me, and it would doubtless amuse the public, to fix attention on this little affair of your own.
From Jewel Weed by Harrison Fisher
Requires much effort to fix attention while counting drops.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
First let us fix attention on the purely mathematical question.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
But he could not fix attention on it.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
In skilled movement, or skilled action of any sort, the best rule is to fix attention on the end-result or, if the process is long, on the result that immediately needs to be accomplished.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
