When a reader is browsing book listings, they're looking to have their attention arrested by something that speaks to them.
Having squeezed past Birmingham, Stoke will now turn their attention to arresting a slump in form that has seen them plummet to 17th in the Premier League table.
"In a concert setting, for example, different individuals listen to a piece of music with wandering attention, but at the transition point between movements, their attention is arrested," said the paper's senior author Vinod Menon, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neurosciences.
Possibly these contemplations are intensified towards the end, when his attention is arrested by the news of the both unexpected and somehow expected collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11 2001.
Women are harassed, attacked and sexually assaulted with alarming regularity in America and around the world, and now even more of them live in states where, if pregnant, they can be refused medical attention or arrested for refusing C-sections.
His attention was arrested for a moment by a two-headed toothbrush whose heads faced each other as though locked in combat, like a visual pun on the word "bristle".
My interest is in seeing more police attention directed at arresting "johns" as a means of disrupting the prostitution trade.
Advertisers paid attention too: an arresting photograph of a rugged cowboy smoking a cigarette was an inspiration for the Marlboro Man.
The director Jeremy Saulnier has a gift for seizing your attention with arresting, harmoniously balanced images that somehow seem to either briefly slow down or even freeze a movie.
At the turn of the century, a Czech artist named Alphonse Mucha became popular for posters using the elegant, swirling lines of Art Nouveau, while a young Italian caricaturist named Leonetto Cappiello captured attention with arresting, often humorous images, such as his 1906 Maurin Quina, an absinthe ad featuring a mischievous green devil floating against a simple black background.
"A lot of our attention is dedicated to arresting people who have drug problems," he said, "when the real solution may be to rehabilitate them".
