Sentence examples for attentions upon from inspiring English sources

However, the sight of an aging bearded man, his face red with lust, about to force his attentions upon a naked woman asleep on a couch is not everyone's cup of tea, not even under the excuse of dealing with the mythological theme of "Jupiter and Antiope".

Surfacing at a time when the American indie-rock scene seemed fatally marginalised, as MTV focused its attentions upon oafish rap-metal jocks like Limp Bizkit, Death Cab geekily plucked their moniker from an obscure Bonzo Dog Band song, and plied a deft, melodic college-rock, characterised by Gibbard's thoughtful, bookish lyrics.

In the exciting new revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Mr. Harbour (above, with Kathleen Turner) is again a stolid object of desire, though this time it's a very uninhibited professor's wife who has focused her lustful attentions upon him.

Now, I find all the things other than the economy that Obama has focused his attentions upon to be quite fascinating.

Seeming to sense a momentarily lapse in his otherwise undivided field of sexual gravity, Bryan gracefully halted the conversation to affix his attentions upon me, inquiring benignly if anything was the matter.

In contrast, under the anti-aging approach, practitioners focus their attentions upon subtle aspects of age-related decay of whole body functions.

His pedagogical interest focused his attention upon inorganic chemistry.

"Why would a drug lord call attention upon himself when he is hiding?

The surplus also focused attention upon the tariff, the principal source of this excess revenue.

To the Editor: Your editorial focuses attention upon a disturbing and expanding trend, the politicization of the Justice Department.

Those who receive her advice are very lucky she often lavishes thousands of words' worth of attention upon them.