Sentence examples for crowd's attention from inspiring English sources

Bombastic and hotblooded, he holds court in a singular fashion, exercising sheer force of will to pull the spotlight down on himself and demanding the crowd's attention: "That's the need to be heard," he states, offering his worldview.

Surrounded by so much Arcadian eye-candy — the citadel, the translucent turquoise sea, an adjacent range of snow-capped mountains — she's performing a minor miracle just by successfully competing for the crowd's attention.

The crowd's attention was elsewhere.

But the crowd's attention was divided.

bounded onstage and summoned the crowd's attention.

Perhaps to hold the dwindling crowd's attention, Fielden darkened his rhetoric.

Pollock took a microphone and tried to get the crowd's attention.

The band couldn't hold the crowd's attention beyond four or five deep around the stage.

THE squad car's glaring lights caught the crowd's attention in the evening dusk.

However bleak his hymnal, Gira demanded the crowd's full attention, as if they were parishioners.

Those who were near, in the FNB soccer stadium — also known as Soccer City — seemed to agree as they danced and sang joyfully, to the dismay of at least some of the speakers, Barack Obama excepted, who could tell that they didn't have the crowd's full attention.