Sentence examples for shrinking attention from inspiring English sources

Forget all that talk about shrinking attention spans.

And I don't think it's just because of our much lamented shrinking attention spans.

Doesn't poetry seem just right for our ever shrinking attention spans?

In an age of shrinking attention spans and digital overload, one negative review can predetermine expectations.

There's no other film-maker who has a better shot at hauling our shrinking attention spans into shape.

If the building reveals anything about the state of journalism today, it conveys the industry's anxieties over the shrinking attention span of the average American.

On that basis you might expect to see chapters on shrinking attention spans, rising rates of depression, generational changes in empathy, and so on.

In videos that typically last five to eight minutes, they talk straight to the camera and riff through head-spinning jump cuts, non sequiturs and exaggerated facial expressions to court shrinking attention spans and rack up views.

Nor do the complaints that golf takes too much time and costs too much money, killer considerations in a country with a shrinking attention span and a mushrooming array of diversions.

Although he bookends the show with segments attacking the state of politics in general and the current election in particular, much of "Running on Empty" is given over to general observations (negative) about the likes of Facebook and Twitter, which he blames for the younger generation's shrinking attention span — a phenomenon going viral more quickly than any cute-kitty video on YouTube.

Rather, her plays have continued to knock audiences sideways with their inventiveness – from deploying pioneering cross-gender, race and age casting in 1979's Cloud 9 to using blank verse to satirise the greed of City stockbrokers in 1987's Serious Money to highlighting the shrinking attention spans of the Noughties by creating 57 micro-plays in 2012's Love and Information.