Ed's fellow-passengers give it moments of notice, but the main thrust of their attention is toward each other.
The prosperity of big data applications is a thrust of drawing attention to the system performance such as timeliness, computational and communication resources.
Although he made additions and improvements to many of his palaces, such as the Stable Court at Fontainebleau (1606 09), the thrust of his attention was directed toward the modernization and beautification of his capital.
The volume and thrust of the attention Caitlyn Jenner's story has received is the latest and most ringing example of this larger cultural shift.
In the past two years, Goodman has had a great deal of attention thrust on him.
The facts essential to the disposition of the motion were not and could not be denied; they were literally thrust upon the attention of the court by the government itself.
Apperception, in turn, may either actively select and focus upon a perceived representation, or it may passively find certain representations suddenly thrusting themselves into the center of attention (PP II: 267; 56267
Whatever song they were performing, though, Pop kept himself the center of attention: a whirling, thrusting, chest-beating rock star whose enactment of aggression was never anything but totally cheerful.
It's a peculiar moment of cinematic accusation that thrusts upon the viewer the moral onus of attention and inattention, of a gaze imbued with prejudices stoked both by sentiment and patriotic identification.
This contrapositive relationship between DPC and VPC is consistent with the thrust of the domain-general, dual-attention hypothesis or the internal versus external processing hypothesis for the DMN (Corbetta and Shulman 2002; Buckner et al. 2008) and is less consistent with any of the domain-specific approaches.
Conversely, don't underestimate the impact of "attention leaks" on your ability to concentrate — every device that beeps, blinks, or thrusts red numbers in your face is designed to capture your attention and create a sense of urgency.
