The phrase "affirming attention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the idea of acknowledging or validating someone's focus or interest.
Example: "The teacher's approach was effective in affirming attention among the students during the lecture."
Alternatives: "validating focus" or "acknowledging interest".
It pays bad-behavior-affirming attention to that modern mutant, the insecure narcissist, suddenly spot-lit.
The student identifies features and the teacher guides by focusing attention, and affirming or rejecting what is identified.
First, the liberal rhetoric of individualism and personal choice is casually affirmed without sufficient attention to the ways in which one's choices and much else are influenced by tradition and community.
What it is for a finite mind to clearly and distinctly perceive X is for its intellect to have a clear and distinct idea of X and for its will to affirm X, but while the intellect is presenting this clear and distinct idea, the will cannot stop affirming it to turn its attention to something else.
She affirms that attention must be given to building a solid foundation, if we are to create anything that will endure: a vessel to drink from, an expression to help us live, or a substantial sense of self that will enable us to make our way in the world.
By contrast, Mrs. Edwards, who has cancer, said "most of the attention you get is really affirming for you, your family and your spouse".
When you learn to pay attention to your instincts, you will know which choices are life affirming, and which ones will drain you of your energy or create chaos.
There is a religious intention here, called attention to in quotations from the Koran, their calligraphy intertwined with the ornamentation, affirming a unifying power.
By affirming their spirit and capacity for innovation, populism has a positive implication: it teaches us to pay attention to the historical role played by people.
They are mutually affirming, even mutually necessary.
