Sentence examples for shorter attention span from inspiring English sources

GQ's timelessness has been replaced by a sense of urgency and a much shorter attention span.

Clearly, we have got a public with a shorter attention span, but there is also this great interest in history.

The senator, who always found Mr. Bush to have a shorter attention span on the issues than on chats about flying jets, still likes provoking his former rival.

Little, though younger and with a correspondingly shorter attention span, is quite engaged by looking at art, even eager to discuss it.

The pro-slow lobby suspects – and is probably right – that a quick-fire style approach is often aimed at younger viewers, who are perceived to have a shorter attention span and brains shaped by playing video games.

Britain also falls into this camp: its children are seen as less keen on role-playing than those on the continent and regarded as having a shorter attention span.

One of those potential costs is shorter attention spans.

What I worry about is shorter attention spans.

We now have shorter attention spans than goldfish (nine seconds).

Toddlers are more active than babies and have shorter attention spans.

Have our shorter attention spans made us less tolerant of longer works?