Example Sentences

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"What messes you up is not the worries, but the overattention to detail."

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2012

Adds Baker with a swipe at Jimmy Carter's notorious overattention to minutiae: "You don't have to know who is playing on the White House tennis court to be a good President."

From Time Magazine Archive

Had I known what every teacher should be taught in preparation,—the relation of eye strain, bad teeth, adenoids, "overattention," and malnutrition to nervousness and bad behavior,—I could have restored many "incorrigibles" to nerve control.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.

It was overattention to his health, with its hundreds of impending possibilities; to his food, with the unsolvable perplexity of what the doctor advised and of what the young sire wanted.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

Hers was an open, if need be a furtive, overattention and overstimulation, an inveterate surrender to the sweet tyranny of her son's childish whims.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.