Sentence examples for exhausted attention from inspiring English sources

The idea becomes exhausted; attention wanders.

His reforming ardour is exhausted, and attention is shifting to his successor.

With everyone exhausted and attention flagging, you tend, like Rodney Dangerfield, to get no respect.

Bradley forgot that the whole meaning of a spatial or temporal description is not exhausted when attention is given to the connotations of the terms used; what has to be considered is the words as used in their context, which is that of a person who can indicate his position in space and time because of the fact that he is himself situated in space and time.

My watch buzzing to get my attention gives me a valuable bit of information, but it can also exhaust my attention.

I'm a veteran of both conflicts, and I admit that they have come to exhaust my attention span, too.

Through it all, Mr. Crisp was composed but seemed exhausted by the attention.

After nearly 20 years, our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have exhausted our collective attention spans.

At the end of a set, he makes you feel exhausted from the attention you've been paying him.

A third approach suggests that today's extraordinarily market-driven, work-oriented culture dislikes children - especially boys who seem harder to settle into the routines of nursery or school care, demanding attention from exhausted parents.

"I don't want to try and circumscribe presidential war powers," she said, adding that "the president retains those powers in the war on terrorism and in the war in Iraq". Although Ms. Rice's evasion exhausted the committee's attention span, the war powers issue cries out for attention.