Sentence examples for attention merely from inspiring English sources

The performer is presented as a member of the collective, and, even where one individual may stand out, such as the parade "royalty," he is essentially passive and wins attention merely as the focal point of a number of performers.

The autobiographical material of Life Studies had been drawn through the crucible of art in ways that seem less apparent in the later poems, where the rude details of daily life are meant to claim our attention merely because they happen to have happened to Robert Lowell.

But it occurs to me I haven't done anything to deserve so much attention, merely by surviving.

This resource-based quantitative account states that spatial attention merely does not tax this domain general mechanism sufficiently and that high spans actually excel in the coordinated deployment of prospective attention because they have leftover attentional capacity with which to use the feature-based cues.

Levelling the Land's success focused attention not merely on the group, but the scene that had spawned them.

The food was placed successively on cotton, sponge rubber, cloth, crackers, and in jars with wicks, but was found to require less attention when merely placed on a slice of bread in a petri dish.

In many ways, it has paid too much attention to merely providing capital, and too little to the other side of the business: helping risky ventures to succeed.

At 6-foot-4 and 280 pounds, with a marine's bristle-cut hair, Joe Allbaugh commands attention by merely walking into a room.

An advocate for the family said that while Thursday's arrests were part of the "slow chipping away" at the intimidation and cover up in the community, in the short term the renewed attention was merely adding to the pressure being felt by the victim and her family.

Yet clarity and simplicity may well be mirages; they are the hard-won result of Thomas's attention not merely to things-as-they-are - to nettles, or rain, or the ploughed earth - but to the inner processes of memory, perception, naming and thought.

When the goal is to hold attention, not merely acquire it, there's no faking it.