This stuff has always occurred but now it's goosed and amplified and elevated into a mandatory part of the experience, requiring an attention span stretching well beyond the reasonable boundaries of the season.

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In other words, a crossword puzzle may be a good remedy for an ailing attention span.

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Nothing, we now know, creates as much fatigue, as much resistance, as much anger and as much resentment as the imposition of an alien speed, an alien rhythm and an alien attention span.

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The main point to consider when designing creative for Times Square boards is that the audience has an incredibly short attention span.

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What a concept: an American company with a multiyear attention span.

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Steve is like an overgrown teenager in his enthusiasms and attention span.

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Then again, how many of your neighbors have the attention span to make it through an 1, 100-page novel replete with 90-page philosophy screeds?

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Like many writers, I worry about the decline of reading in an era of digital devices that whittle away our attention span.

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Once derided by critics as an example of society's increasingly gnat-like attention span, the site's 140-character limit has in many cases inspired users to be as witty, insightful or informative as they can be in as few words as possible.

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The quest for the constantly new was driven by a lightning-quick mind and short attention span for anything that failed to interest him, the fear of boredom, and an insatiable need for intellectual stimulation.

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