A general interest that leads people to want to know more

Usage examples of attention.

It seemed the right time to bring the Levitt accounting speech to the attention of the directors.

Whereas our attention was first drawn to the intensity of the elements of virtuality that constituted the multitude, now it must focus on the hypothesis that those virtualities accumulate and reach a threshold of realization adequate to their power.

Oronteus Finaeus World Map also commands attention: it successfully places the coasts of Antarctica in correct latitudes and relative longitudes and finds a remarkably accurate area for the continent as a whole.

I propose to ask your attention for a little while to some propositions in affirmance of that statement.

Caleb instantly fixed his attention on Alleluia, noting that she was clapping her hands politely and watching the stage as if she expected an encore.

He resisted the easy allure of self-pity and stood rigid, almost at attention, until the feeling had passed.

Their deaths were the gestures of desperate or deluded men to call attention to the Anarchist idea.

Canfield started to sit down, his attention was drawn to the linen antimacassar on the back of the chair.

It was an antiphony of responses, switching the students from one teaching image to the other, and from one timber of voice to another, that kept the students attention.

Cringing at her own thoughts, she turned her attention back to the antsy teenager.

I was a remorseless extra-biller, and it seemed to me that the more exacting I was, the more eager my aporetics and dismal sufferers were to reward me for my attentions.

Rice returned to urge the appeal on their immediate attention, while Judson remained to enter on that noble apostolate for which his praise is in all the churches.

In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.

When, on the way down the street, for instance, impressions are received from a passing form, and a resulting act of apperceiving attention, besides reading meaning into them, awakens a sense of familiarity, the face is recognized as one seen on a former occasion.

It has called attention to mental and bodily unities, has served as a guide to explain the physical and psychical characteristics of individuals, and has been instrumental in applying physiological and hygienic principles to the habits of life, thus rendering a service for which the world is greatly indebted.