fix attention

Example Sentences

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Here was a subject fitted to fix attention upon any writer, and on the other hand, a writer brilliantly qualified to fix attention upon any subject.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

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

I have used an extreme case as a text, because I desire to fix attention on the error which parents and some doctors are apt to commit in cases of chronic ailments in children.

From Doctor and Patient by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

It enables critics to fix attention on the precise value of the proposed remedy instead of discussing whether the suggested reform is necessary.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman

The lyric passages at the beginning of the third act fix attention altogether upon Mary's longing for mere physical freedom.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin