Significados de rivet the attention em inglês

It will rivet the attention of the reader, and hold it right through.

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

The bars that follow rivet the attention of the listener on account of their weird originality.

Even after the magnificent coloring of sunrise had faded the sight was one to rivet the attention.

Now natural selection favored blooms that could rivet the attention of pollinators, fruits that appealed to foragers.

At first his voice was weak, but his notes seemed to rivet the attention of his audience.

If you need deeds to rivet the attention of the world upon our sufferings, then there shall be deeds.

The merest trifles sometimes rivet the attention in the deepest misery; the intellect has so little to do with grief.

To rivet the attention of friends on bride and bridegroom is to offend against the most delicate susceptibilities of modesty.

They knew that it must attract and rivet the attention of others in the mansions, even possibly of passers-by in the street.

The firm, steady gaze of her deep blue eyes had a power to rivet the attention of the beholder, that puzzled him.

Her voice was sweet, but not strong, though it was sufficient to fill the cabin, and to rivet the attention of all present.

Standing in the midst of the beautiful Cathedral-square, its noble rotunda-like form at once rivets the attention.

Dan Leno, in particular, rivets the attention of his audience by his entrancing by-play, even when he doesn't speak.

What immediately rivets the attention is a terrible figure, all vermilion red, towering above many smaller images- agoblinshape with immense cavernous eyes.

Also in D.C. pictures it serves as a kind of fulcrum, or unifying element, inasmuch as it rivets the attention between the two detached sides.