hold attention
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But the film’s narrative engine remains too choppy and clunky, and the characters too cursorily developed, to hold attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
She did not know how to gain and hold attention.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Then they build a site with visuals and messages designed to grab the audience, usually millennials, and hold attention.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2016
It was evident as we worked together on the ideas that became Fascinate, Sally’s groundbreaking book on how to get and hold attention in a distracted world.
From Forbes ● Jun. 17, 2014
Through a poem should run a thread of emotional thought, strong enough to bind the parts together so vividly as to hold attention close to the substance.
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
