Sentence examples for amusing attention from inspiring English sources

Until that point Mr. Tyler — who has long had a bad-boy reputation as the frontman of the commercial juggernaut Aerosmith, which has sold approximately 60 million albums over 40 years — threatened to be an amusing attention hog on the show and, in the minds of some, a buffoonish liability.

Operation Chaos was still garnering attention and amusing listeners, but the election news was being made elsewhere.

Mr. Mélenchon, a lover of philosophy and of the novels of William Faulkner, is a stirring, amusing speaker, capturing the attention of his audience through his erudition and his coruscating humor aimed at bosses and bankers.

They described the book with flowery language that grabbed my attention, and amusing me, even as I was grappling with the theft.

He has found the attention somewhat amusing, particularly when French magazines started calling him "Le Daredevil de l'Art", after Marvel's blind superhero Daredevil, a sobriquet he finds "hysterically funny".

Over the weekend, the Twitter followers of the Everyday Sexism Project shared their most humorous and amusing responses to unwanted attentions.

The reality show at least is alarming and amusing enough to hold viewer attention.

Ever the pithy linguistic analyst, Mr. Harnick called attention to an amusing pun in which an exhausted soldier finds himself "countin' Jeeps" instead of sheep.

That's why at least some medical professionals apparently seek out "Grey's Anatomy" garb in specialty-uniform stores: a garment referencing a medical-­focused hit from pop culture might be clever or amusing enough to catch the attention of colleagues, and that's the idea — not to distract or disconcert the occasional sharp-eyed patient.

Instead of ignoring Ted's more pretentious traits, the show has squeezed amusing moments out of calling attention to them.

While amusing, the stunt has drawn attention to the fact that the animal services department in Toronto is apparently very overworked.