How To Use Attention span In A Sentence
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I see only those with a very short attention span and a cruel sense of humour finding it entertaining.
Times, Sunday Times
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Without attention spans we will never see what is really there and we will spend all of our time concerned with the ideas and things that the illuminati want us to waste our times with rather than seeing the bigger picture.
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Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud.
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This has a profound effect on attention spans.
The Sun
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Apart from the increased likelihood of heckling, self-contained groups like stag or hen parties tend to gab among themselves during performances, attention spans drained by too much drink.
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I guess in the world of twitter and fifteen picosecond attention spans, even thirty seconds of work is too much for io9.
What's Your Opinion of io9?
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I had the attention span of a punch-drunk goldfish with Alzheimer's and Bob was scratching his bonce and looking into his beer for inspiration.
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Hollywood then takes this basic premise, amplifies it to the max, and time-compresses the results to fit their typical short attention span.
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But overdo it and you may end up with frayed nerves, a short attention span and the jitters.
The Sun
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He's a league-leading fidgeter; to say he has a short attention span is like saying Ahab doesn't like whales.
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Another factor is the short attention span of American voters.
Think Progress » New poll finds more Americans in favor of eliminating the filibuster.
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Because fashion's goldfish attention span is antithetical to the lasting power of great music, few worthwhile bands have come up from the catwalk rather than the street.
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Small children have a very short attention span.
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He has a very short attention span and unless something interests him he doesn't want to know.
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They say it boosts concentration and attention span.
The Sun
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Small children have a very short attention span.
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He has tested the attention spans and gluteal muscles of audiences in Europe with a 6
Peter Stein, Straight Shooter
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And Filipinos with our ningas-cogon tendencies, like our entertainment fast and light, have suitably short attention span.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Is it due to the short attention span of her intended audience.
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Dear Kidsday: My attention span in school is very, very short.
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I noticed her short attention span and low boredom threshold .
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Like most martial arts movies, this action thriller is full of bad dialogue, hopeless acting and plenty of biffo for anyone with a short attention span.
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The first is that the average human attention span has gone down.
Christianity Today
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He has his own pattern of rhythms, and he has his own pattern of attention spans.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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I'm just one of that new brand of consumer - the one with a very short attention span, who bores quickly and easily.
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As successful as they were at the box office (which isn't hard to achieve when it comes to summer audiences and their infamously short attention span ...) "Transformers 2", "Star Trek" and a host of other summer films were simply redressed rehashes (with the exception of "District 9", which was great, in my humble opinion).
AVATAR Zooms Past $800 Million Worldwide on Its Way to $1 Billion – Collider.com
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Today, I'm thinking maybe I'm a New Yorker: I like black and whites (cookies) and onion bagels, and short attention spans and oversharing.
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Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively.
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Maybe she just, as you said, had the attention span of a thunderbolt.
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Put aside the political correctness agruments for a while (to a child, a golliwog is just a golliwog, ok, a nice, different-looking but just as well-loved doll) and give the child the benefit of the doubt that given the right stimulus, he/she WILL have the interest and attention span to follow through on longer stories - or even series of stories.
British Books for Malaysian Schools
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Bosses today are hostages to the minuscule attention span of modern society, where fans get bored easily and often want change for change's sake.
The Sun
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His tests included the measurement of attention span and body movements when music was played to them.
Caring for your Unborn Child
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Conditioned to expect immediate gratification, these youth have shorter attention spans and also a low threshold for boredom.
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Bosses today are hostages to the minuscule attention span of modern society, where fans get bored easily and often want change for change's sake.
The Sun
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Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively.
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I noticed her short attention span and low boredom threshold .
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Small children have a short attention span.
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Only those with extremely short attention spans or those in orbit can appreciate all the chopping and changing.
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Trying to gauge the baking time for Brittany sable biscuits (to go with a loganberry fool) at the same time as slow roasting a shoulder of lamb proved beyond my attention span.
Induction seduction
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That said, dairy producers are savvy enough to know that children's influence is more important than ever to final sales, particularly with so many other splashy products vying for their short attention spans.
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Small children have a very short attention span.
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Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively.
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People are sometimes referred to by media types as "sheeple" - so language (semantics) is a big factor in dishing out news and information in doses measured such that it can be easily understood or "absorbed" by the average individual, whose attention span is about 55 seconds on the net (that's the average amount of time a visitor spends on any given website or blog).
Dave Lucas
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He does have temper tantrums and the attention span of a three-year-old.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small children have a short attention span.
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The children were compared for attention span, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
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Attention span, processing speed and memory improve, as do problem-solving skills and self-understanding.
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Normally, you would notice the danger signs - the need for control, the short attention span, the tarty clothes, the insatiable insecurity, the hunger for excitement - and take appropriate action.
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Having the attention span of a marmot with a crystal-meth habit that has misplaced its adderall, this particular rule proved difficult to adhere to, inciting my teacher to tie my shoelaces to my chair once the tickets were exhausted typically between 9 o'clock and 9:20 in the morning.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother'
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Both bands sounded bold and undeniably potent, were popular with the dance floor crowd and re-energised any flagging attention spans.
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Small children have a short attention span.
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What interests me here is not so much the dwindling of attention spans, as what I call 'nuggeting' -- scanning only for the important points, the catching points where the eye and the brain latch on to information -- a point of change or transition or a contrast.
February 2009
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They say it boosts concentration and attention span.
The Sun
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This economy has, as its constitutive elements, such factors as attention span, pleasure, ratio of novelty to repetition.
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This is a man with a very short attention span.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each child has a different degree of understanding, background and attention span.
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London's fiction (his essays as well) has a terrific range for that "new generation of readers," at least those with an attention span beyond the paramecium level.
A Jack London Talk With Author Dale L. Walker
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Digital scolds bemoan tweeting as the ultimate signifier of our busted attention spans, but old-timey newspapers used to run randomized factoidal gibberish like this by the yard.
Chicago Reader
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If the abscess is in the frontal lobes of the brain, it may cause loss of memory and reduced attention span, and dysphasia.
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Kids his age typically have a very short attention span.
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While Zippy has the attention span of a goldfish, his wife has the focus of an electron microscope.
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While children without this experience can often cope in playgroups and primary school, there may be concerns about attention span and disruptive behaviour.
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This has a profound effect on attention spans.
The Sun
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This is a man with a very short attention span.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest of the year, when we're emailing and texting and Words-With-Friending, and we're befogged by clashing inputs, we don't have the attention span or patience to watch commercials unfold.
Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn - Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials
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And while we might decry the era of atrophied attention spans that's brought us bite-sized blog posts and slimy creations like the "listicle", for better or for worse, the text is the medium of the moment.
Stefan Sirucek: The Book of Bad Decisions: Texts From Last Night
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This isn't a sign that our generation has an attenuated attention span.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe Buzz is referring to the relatively (last 10-15 years) recent spate of film and tv SF with photorealistic (or, let's say, extremely slick) visual effects that inevitably and by nature of the format and genre, compress action and timescales in consonance with bite-size time and attention spans.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
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Imaginative and sophisticated workouts are evolving to engage dwindling attention spans or cash in on punters addicted to the endorphin fix.
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Part of the key to his inexplicable success must be his handlers’ deft leverage of the public's short attention span.
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The average human attention span online is now eight seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The public is not only fickle, but has a extremely short attention span.
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Her attention span needed some work, in a light-hearted way.
The Sun
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Small children have a very short attention span.
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Where others see a generation of television-created illiterates, with short attention spans, or video-game addicts, he sees a new edition of humanity.
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Your insight is about a long as your attention span when dealing with world wide beneficial long term solutions that might take years if not decades to realize.
Think Progress » Lynne Cheney ‘Marshals Support’ For Iraq War at Elementary School
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As Karl Schwenke points out in his classic book In a Pig's Eye: 'Pigs are gregarious animals. Like children, they thrive on affection, enjoy toys, have a short attention span, and are easily bored.'
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This is a man with a very short attention span.
Times, Sunday Times
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But overdo it and you may end up with frayed nerves, a short attention span and the jitters.
The Sun
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They say it boosts concentration and attention span.
The Sun
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When you seem to be pandering to an audience with a slender attention span, then it's unrealistic to expect character development, clever plot twists or edge-of-seat tension.
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But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification?
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This endless pornucopia of splayed women is only one way in which the internet addles our attention span.
Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?
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Not to mention an attention span and focus unavailable to minds driven mad with interfamilial incest and other taboo deviations from the social norms of the great unwashed masses (read: you and me).
The True Origin of Our Present Misery: Why Peace Never Had a Chance
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The latest alleged trend to set the world in a tizzy is the Crisis of Shorter Attention Spans, a dire development that has been brought about by the rise of the Internet.
Get to the Good Part: In Praise of Shortened Attention Spans
