hyperattentive

but each time I was ready to give up on the whole book as gassy claptrap, something snared me again, a detail or a phrase or an image, and before I knew it, I'd read another fifty pages in a kind of hyperattentive dream.

A Few Words on Vellum 2006

but each time I was ready to give up on the whole book as gassy claptrap, something snared me again, a detail or a phrase or an image, and before I knew it, I'd read another fifty pages in a kind of hyperattentive dream.

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

For this reader in that particular period of transition, the novel's doubled genre -- the expository expectations of science fiction readers, the musical expectations of high-mainstream fiction readers -- successfully transferred the Kid's hyperattentive suspicion that each detail of experience, no matter how apparently trivial, must somehow be determined by some structure outside the experience proper.

Difficult Dhalgren 2010

Anderegg finds that anxious parents are hyperattentive to their kids, reactive to every blip of their child’s day, eager to solve every problem for their child — and believe that’s good parenting.

National Wimp Crisis | Impact Lab 2006