rivet the attention

We must rivet the attention of the public from the start, he says.

But it was the scene within the bubble that riveted the attention of the boys.

Who can doubt that he will rivet the attention?

They rivet the attention of the inquirer and encourage him to go further.

The miners' story riveted the attention of a nation at war with terrorism and eager for good news.

As it is, this is not a production that rivets the attention.

Then there is the issue that has riveted the attention of Congress and the media: the continuing accounting scandals.

She is a classic Miss America who really rivets the attention of a crowd.

It is not one or the other but the convergence of these opposites that rivets the attention.

Several murder cases involving nannies have riveted the attention of anxious parents.

The numbers, which have doubled in the past five years, have riveted the attention of development experts who once paid them little mind.

They riveted the attention in this hourlong work by an Israeli choreographer.

Not that the new development was entirely bad, for it certainly riveted the attention of the pirates and Famlio.

For example, he’s got a riff on childhood obesity that rivets the attention of his audiences.

Platform debates riveted the attention of some of us in the past at convention time, and they would do so again.

Our deficits cannot be ignored forever and the market has finally provided the kind of shock therapy that rivets the attention.

This was familiar enough - magic meant to rivet the attention to the speaker, and make his words seem the acme of truth.

This mute conversation at such a momentous crisis would have riveted the attention of the most indifferent.

The issue has riveted the attention of voters here in south Florida, as well as across the country, and it is not hard to see why.

But because what happens in those realms often seems unexpectedly related to everybody's ordinary world, his dances about them can rivet the attention.

Small sounds impinge, dim lights swell, tiny movements rivet the attention.

This was no doubt the right way to rivet the attention of the people Mr. North is counting on.

The collapse of the hysterical Pearl had riveted the attention of the two killers on her.

The piece has a dreamlike logic that resists easy summary on the page, but it rivets the attention.

But if there was anything that riveted the attention of L.A., it was the horror show.