Mr President, there are at the moment two crisis hotspots that demand our complete attention and plenty of sensitivity, and the sort of fine words that we currently hear from the present Austrian Presidency of the Council will not make them go away.
"It was a book that demanded my complete attention.
Marcel is obsessively possessive of Albertine, demands her complete attention, and is tortured by suspicions of her affairs.
(The theater at the Culture Project, however, was uncomfortably hot, a distressing — and, I hope, rectified — oversight for a stationary work that demands your complete attention).
In a letter to Corso the following year, Ginsberg complained that it was impossible to conduct a conversation with others in his own apartment, while Corso demanded "complete separate attention, like unhappy tantrum child...
The job requires unrelenting energy, complete attention, and is physically and mentally demanding too.
For the first time ever, I had her complete attention.
The group also demands complete silence about the club.
So the contradictions I witnessed began to seem more and more like the normal defences of an old man who simply wanted it both ways: he wanted complete independence yet demanded constant attention.
