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Definition of Center of attention

1. Noun. The object upon which interest and attention focuses. "His stories made him the center of the party"

Definition of Center of attention

1. Noun. (American English) (alternative form of centre of attention) ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Center Of Attention

Literary usage of Center of attention

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1907)
"We are agreed that our distinctive center of attention and our principle of synthesis is personality. This proposition marks the strategic point in our ..."

2. The Art of Acting and Public Reading: Dramatic Interpretation by Rollo Anson Tallcott (1922)
"In general conversation, where there are supposed to be several people talking at once, the center of attention shifts alternately from one group or couple ..."

3. Some Applications of Logical and Psychological Principles to Grammar by Peter Magnus Magnusson (1893)
"That is to say, the center of attention and interest is the motion, but the arm and sword, though not in the center, are still inside the sphere of ..."

4. Text-book of School and Class Management by Felix Arnold (1910)
"When two activities strive both to hold the center of attention, each will interfere with the other. More can be accomplished in a given field, ..."

5. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the Kindergarten by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"... to conclude with the guessing game, which provided more physical activity as well as a more interesting common center of attention for all the group. ..."

6. Public Speaking by James Albert Winans (1917)
"... or a group of words containing such a part of the thought as the mind focuses upon, or what amounts to the same thing, containing a center of attention; ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Fourth, bodily adjustments to the center of attention send kinesthetic sensations to consciousness. These may be reproduced ones but they all .give the ..."

8. General Psychology by Walter Samuel Hunter (1919)
"... point of view it would be said that that stimulus which controls the dominant activity of the moment is in the focus or center of attention. ..."

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