fix attention

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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

In defining a word we seek some class to which to refer it, that we may identify it, and fix attention upon that peculiarity by which we can distinguish it from all other things.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

It was necessary to fix attention; and the mind can be captivated only by recollection, or by curiosity; by reviving natural sentiments, or impressing new appearances of things.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

It was an evening that invited to repose and reverie: there were not even the usual fiery colors of the sunset to arouse and fix attention by their rapidly-changing and glowing hues.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various