It forces students to face the difficulties of training a deep attentiveness.
Strand was a taciturn individual, and approached each undertaking, whether the concrete canyons of 1930s Wall Street or peasant life in 1950s rural Italy, with deep attentiveness and a quiet intensity.
For these moments of wistfulness, however, we are more than compensated by Armitage's pincer-move on Homer's epic, his combination of deep attentiveness and refreshing imaginative license.
Although Shapcott excelled in her earlier incarnation, picking up the Forward prize in 1999 for her third collection, My Life Asleep, and becoming the only poet to win the National Poetry Competition twice, there's a hard-won maturity to her latest poems, coupled with a new and deep attentiveness, that lifts them above anything she has so far written.
This is usually due to a deep level of spiritual attentiveness.
That isn't something that I've studied much, but I think there are some indications that this kind of culture of constant distraction and interruption undermines not only the attentiveness that leads to deep thoughts, but also the attentiveness that leads to deep connections with other people. .
And he puts such "subliminal attentiveness" to something very deep in the nature of the Japanese: "a pervasive and acute alertness to their environment and its most subtle signals, instilled perhaps by their constant vulnerability to earthquakes".
Toyota's using deep learning to help make this work, evaluating user attentiveness and emotional states, based on observed body language, tone of voice and other forms of expression.
She was accompanied by her father, who carried beneath his shabby frock coat a bowie knife sharpened with great attentiveness earlier that morning so it would plunge as deep as possible into Pemberton's heart".
Attentiveness is a human state, and our reserves of attention are finite.
