So every time your thumb or palm hits the misaligned trackpad, it causes the mouse to click and transfer attention to something other than where you're trying to type.
Or at least that's the thinking of the wonderfully named Ray Say (the excellent Marc Warren, sporting sideburns to kill), a local talent agent and main squeeze of the drunken Mari, who is soon transferring his attentions, in business terms at least, to promoting LV as a newfound star.
"He and I are tight, but he's transferred his attention to her, which is how it should be.
Unfortunately I was a smoker at the time and Tom would immediately transfer his attention to the still warm butt in the ashtray.
In September 1859, after peace had returned to northern Italy, Garibaldi transferred his attention to central Italy, where a revolutionary government had been established in Florence.
Before long he transferred his attention to learning publishing and printing, setting up his small press as a response to the dearth of outlets for black and progressive writers.
The hawk transfers its attention to the meat in the falconer's fist and steps up onto the glove, leaving the game to be transferred into the falconer's game bag and the hawk with sufficient appetite to hunt again.
Scott is first taken by a boyfriend to see Liberace at the Las Vegas show; daringly, Soderbergh shows Liberace at first only in long-shot, which transfers our attention to how Scott is infected by the congregation-worship of well-to-do, largely female retirees.
What criticism shares with art, in other words, is a particular kind of magic: an exchange through which we transfer our attention and our trust to a different imagination, hoping that, by some transfiguration on the page, another person may begin to speak our minds.
A painting of Apollo chasing the nymph Daphne – who turned into a laurel tree to escape him – reduces the infatuated god and his prey to lookers-on, and transfers its attention to a hound and a hare that re-enact their chase.
