hold attention

The interest in story is instinctive and universal; the merest string of incidents will attract and hold attention.

The teachers in all classes and in all lessons throughout the school made ceaseless efforts to win and hold attention.

The design of this book has been to present brief, impressive talks which hold attention for from ten to twelve minutes.

One question still remains: "How shall we proceed to secure and to hold attention?"

We must hold attention to the drill process, and yet attention abhors monotony as nature abhors a vacuum.