fix attention
Example Sentences
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No attempt is made to perform such a task; rather is it intended to fix attention upon the race itself as definitely as possible.
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
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
A twinge of pain at right infraorbital foramen, gradually increases; cannot fix attention on what I am reading.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
It was thought better to fix attention on the purely logical value of the argument presented.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman
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
