Sentence examples for bid for attention from inspiring English sources

Ostrenga made an aggressive bid for attention.

Other people made a bid for attention by savaging her.

He doesn't upstage his character with his usual bid for attention; he inhabits Chauncey.

Numerous unsuccessful CDs and one DVD later, Jonathan King has launched his latest bid for attention.

"Savages" is his 13th and most boisterously stylish crime book, his gutsiest and most startling bid for attention.

Nor does she get all excited and throw her body around the stage in a frantic bid for attention.

The program included a Philharmonic premiere and Beethoven's Sixth, both in themselves bids for attention, not equally successful.

A $4 million advertising campaign and the site's pun-on-Greek-tragedy name are bidding for attention in the dot-com world.

Often misperceived as willful bids for attention, yesterday's hysteria and neurasthenia, today's eating disorders, and whatever problematic behaviors emerge in the future command attention because they defy reduction by medical minds.

"Who is he again?" Still others showed concern for the man, and expressed hope that, instead of future bids for attention, he would find fulfillment in crafting or some other harmless hobby.

"We did find it striking that during caregiver absorption with devices, some children appeared to accept the lack of engagement and entertained themselves, whereas others showed increasing bids for attention that were often answered with negative parent responses," the authors wrote.