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On the whole, then, newspaper advertisements ask, but do not compel attention.
2
But it will compel attention; it will conquer a hearing.
3
At this moment, it's the shifting sands between fiction and nonfiction that compel attention.
4
But although he saw much there that was calculated to compel attention, he heeded nothing.
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To compel attention that was my object.
6
Perchance the message falls upon indifferent ears or is too feeble and incoherent in itself to compel attention.
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Philip therefore read diligently in the Astor library, planned literary works that should compel attention, and nursed his genius.
8
A non-co-operationist strives to compel attention and to set an example not by his violence but by his unobtrusive humility.
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But let new ideas be so introduced as to compel attention and comprehension, and the mind spontaneously awakes to wonderful activity.
10
Apart from all considerations of justice and duty, a purely selfish regard to our own well-being would compel attention to the subject.
11
Little happens during the course of the play's 90 minutes, and the banal conversation, while having the ring of truth, fails to compel attention.
12
Occasionally in the flood of short stories appears one that compels attention.
13
He neither compelled attention by what he said nor by his personality.
14
One point, in view of current beliefs of to-day, compels attention.
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He painted the picture large, and put the matter in a way that compelled attention.
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That dark mysterious lava plain between them compelled attention.
