Sentence examples for sustained focusing from inspiring English sources

The vision task consisted of sustained focusing on a contrast-varying black and white Gabor grating.

But in places where tender, sustained, focused pianissimos were wanted, she provided them effortlessly.

Instead of reaping the big rewards that come from sustained, focused effort, we instead reap empty rewards from completing a thousand little sugar-coated tasks.

This will require sustained, focused interaction on a daily basis with the Chinese, but also serious thinking about what can best be accomplished in the run-up to and at key meetings like the S&ED and JCCT.

"What we are losing in this country and presumably around the world is the sustained, focused, linear attention developed by reading," said Mr. Gioia of the N.E.A. "I would believe people who tell me that the Internet develops reading if I did not see such a universal decline in reading ability and reading comprehension on virtually all tests".

For my part, I'd started wondering if Rollins had internalized certain directives about the transformative nature of work during his stint in Lexington — if he hadn't come to see sustained, focussed labor as the only answer to his troubles.

Unlike America, Denmark, which was so badly hammered by the 1973 Arab oil embargo that it banned all Sunday driving for a while, responded to that crisis in such a sustained, focused and systematic way that today it is energy independent.

Since we started this list of programs at high risk of such problems two decades ago, our office has come to update it with each new Congress, and history shows that sustained, focused oversight from lawmakers and administration officials can save billions of dollars and improve services.

As Rettie (2009, p. 435) notes, "synchrony is not mere technical affordance, but also depends on social expectations of immediate feedback and sustained, focused attention".

Indeed, Kant offers no sustained, focussed discussion of the mind anywhere in his work except the popular Anthropology, which, as we just said, is quite superficial.

The model incorporates all three of the strategies that make up successful programs for changing instructional practice according to the NRC (2012): (1) sustained, focused efforts, (2) feedback on instructional practice, and (3) a deliberate focus on changing faculty conceptions about teaching and learning.