Sentences with phrase «which held their attention»

But, I'm here to tell you, any female - slanted drama which holds my attention is worth checking out if you're in the mood for a serious, sometimes sad, drama.

There isn't much else to celebrate about this film, which holds your attention but not your interest as it plods along to an unsatisfying conclusion, making time for some random tangents (like the strange scene featuring Anjelica Huston as a Russian lion tamer).

Time for one more story, which held their attention despite the late hour.

- City of Books Reviews «A complete treasure with a breathtaking story which held my attention from the word go and kept me a willing captive from beginning to end.»

A good resume example is one which holds your attention and catches your eye with its format, outline, content division and overall appeal.

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Some reviewers also complained about the awkward placement of the control buttons, which can make it easy to shut off if you aren't paying attention to how you're holding on to the straightener.

The «alert» honk is the shortest tap possible and the «attention» honk is held for about a second; anything longer is providing your opinion, which increases the chance of a road rage incident and adds to noise pollution.

Jeffrey Carbone, Senior Partner at Cornerstone Financial Partners, said Apple remains a staple holding at his firm but that he has recently turned his attention to Apple suppliers including Skyworks Solutions, which he believes is undervalued.

There seems to be a strain of conventional wisdom which holds that if peoples» attention is being increasingly split by all the digital entertainment options, they're reading fewer books.

Big investors including State Street and BlackRock, which together hold about 9 percent of Exxon shares, recently have made clear they are now giving more attention to climate issues.

«The antitrust environment for M&A transactions seems favorable today though certain deals, which catch the attention of regulators or politicians for one reason or another, can be problematic,» said Jack Levy, a partner at Centerview Partners Holdings LP.

Which, in essence, means virtually every business person should be held accountable to contributing to what Solis defines as a good customer experience ecosystem: one that grabs the customers» attention and then delights them all through their journey with you.

«Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind's attention.»

To the contrary, our normal experience has a focused center washed over by a series of vaguely discriminated backgrounds, any one of which can snap to the center of attention given appropriate stimuli, and I hold that it is my model of dominant and oblique inheritance and not his model of regionally inclusive inheritance which most adequately reflects this normal mode of awareness.

R. H. Charles was right when he drew our attention to the great difference between the fleshly and the spiritual views of the resurrection, both of which were held by Jews of this period.

By the early 1970s, huge baptismal services were held at the ocean — «happenings» which attracted considerable media attention and more interest in the church.

The general instructions of the American Home Missionary Society to its missionaries stated: «Although the preaching of the gospel holds the first and highest place in... the ministerial office, yet there are a variety of subordinate measures, which... require the diligent attention of every pastor and every missionary.»

The shooting quickly gained attention from Black Lives Matters and other activists and organizations dedicated to holding police responsible, which led to Thursday's protests outside Golden 1 Center and now these messages from the Kings and Celtics.

I feel for Holding a bit at the moment, he's at an age and playing in a position which needs attention to detail.

This summer's new crop of parenting books examines modern pressures and holds them up to the light of science to sort the wheat from the chaff: Which messages are worth paying attention to and which should be discaWhich messages are worth paying attention to and which should be discawhich should be discarded?

There are flexible canopy leaves hanging over the baby's head, which hold other toys to attract their attention change their focus.

The first no is generally followed by a redirecting light squeeze on the hand which is followed by holding his hand at his side until he is calm then his attention is redirected back to our book or special potty toy.

Anything which is intriguing and exciting will hold their attention for longer, for example toys such as a jack - in - the - box are great fun.

How do we as communicators — as diplomats or academics, or anyone engaged in the public sphere — ensure that we're effective in the era of social media in which getting and holding attention is harder than ever?

Earlier this month, it came to our attention that the New York City Board of Election might have some difficulty holding a special election for the three open Assembly seats in the city on the same day as the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries, which is April 19.

After a 16 - month stretch during which a longtime state Senate leader was indicted, the public learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proclivity for prostitutes, and the Senate spent a summer in chaos, the idea of holding an early convention to fix state government garnered more attention that it had in decades.

Republicans, of course, have a few seats of their own to defend this fall, including the Hudson Valley district held by Rep. Chris Gibson, who faces a well - funded challenge from Democrat Sean Eldridge, which is expected to draw national attention.

In those cases, HMRC will have made a decision based on information they held and would have been forced to classify the case as claimant error, fraud or HMRC error without any direct dialogue with the claimant · The reported figures materially underestimate official error in the system with little or no attention paid to «contributory error» (where the error is primarily a claimant error but to which HMRC have contributed in some indirect way).

Attention is focused on RBS because Lloyds, which the government holds a 39 % stake in, is very close to the share price paid in 2008.

The attention of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has been drawn to a secret recording making rounds on social media involving the deputy general secretary of the party, Nana Obiri Boahen, in which he alleged that the Flagstaff House advanced an amount of «GHC 50 billion» to the NPP in support of the conduct of the party's 2017 National Annual Delegates Conference held at Cape Coast.

The protestors said they wanted to draw attention to the recent deaths at the county Holding Center, the disproportionate number of people of color who are incarcerated, as well as Howard's participation at a recent «Spirit of America» rally in downtown Buffalo at which Aryan Nation supporters attended.

And the mayor has faced criticism from onetime supporters in the police reform community for his hiring of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his strong support of the «broken windows» theory of policing, which holds that paying attention to smaller crimes will help stop larger ones from occurring.

The result caught the attention of Targacept, which licensed mecamylamine patents held by the University of South Florida.

In a recent set of experiments, psychologist Nilli Lavie of University College London found that this bit of gray matter holds the key to the phenomenon known as change blindness, in which people overlook the obvious when their attention is challenged.

Some two thousand senior French researchers, many holding important administrative posts, have signed a «Manifesto for Research», which criticises Fillon for not giving scientists» views enough attention during his year of consultation.

A number of this year's films sought to draw specific attention to climate change, a move organizers» hoped would help the festival «serve as a signpost» on the route to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, which will be held later this year in Paris, France.

In all of this, Prof. Sinclair means to draw attention to the idea that classical scientific thinking, which tried to explain complex systems by simple means, is still something that holds relevance in science today.

When we go to yoga class, our teachers tell us to listen to our breath, to hold a steady gaze, and to pay attention to our physical alignment, all of which sets us up to pay attention to the present moment.

But rather than focusing on conflict, which is inevitable in any relationship, it is worth shifting your attention to the opportunities for self - growth and development; relationships hold up a mirror to our inner self, enabling us to heal and transcend our past, and embrace our potential.

This stunning cake takes just 15 minutes of preparation, which should allow you to hold the attention of even the youngest of children.

Unfortunately though, this is something a lot of people are ignorant of, perhaps because Big Pharma and mainstream medicine, which focuses much of its attention on locating and manipulating individual receptors, genes, and cells involved in various health disorders, have done such a good job of making us believe that they hold the solution to all our health woes.

Therefore, it's important to pay attention to the size of your portion of food.The same holds true for eating too fast which may also cause you to overeat.Take your time at meals, enjoy every mouthful and give your brain a chance to signal to your stomach that you've eaten enough.

We're certainly not negating the benefits of chocolate, which would be a total shame, but it's time to give vanilla bean a little more attention and appreciation for all the nutritional secrets and majestic powers it holds.

Test it out by holding silver up to your skin and then a gold shade to see which complements you best, paying attention to the whites of your eyes and smile.

Now, I can relax more and be myself, which makes it a lot easier to approach women with confidence and hold their attention.

Annihilation, which was shot by Rob Hardy, has an ominous beauty; it holds our attention even when we want to look away out of fear or disgust.

They've refined every single feature and mechanic — aside from a poor Battle mode — and brought it all together to create an objectively simple, but deceptively deep, racing game which will hold your attention for years to come.

Sid Meier's Starships» battles held my attention for a handful of games, after which point the tactical AI's behavior became exploitable and the strategic layer became too muddled and unpredictable.

Since evidently embarrassing himself on his directing debut, 2005's House of Wax remake, Collet - Serra has been consistently adequate, never transcending the quality of his screenplay (the best of which he's had was the only mildly ridiculous Orphan), but generally providing something with the ability to hold your attention for a couple of hours.

The motion picture, which is huge in scale, focusses its attention on the Partition of India and particularly the Viceroy's House of the title, which at the time held 500 staff made up of Muslim, Hindu and Sikh servants.