Others scientists dismissed the TV documentary as a further piece of attention-seeking by Zavos.
His Pot Noodle burger might be revolting, but it is a wholly successful piece of attention-grabbing.
Cameron's speech was merely the latest piece of unwelcome attention.
In comes an e-mail from a colleague, a client, an old flame, each asking for a little piece of our attention, which, if granted, only begets more demands on our time.
It should be added that they make this distinction also without reading aloud; even in silence they confer upon a piece of poetry an attention that differs from what they give to prose in two ways especially: in tone and in pace.
"You can count on getting only a piece of someone's attention".
Ms. Hornsby said the piece received a lot of attention from museums and private collectors in Paris last week.
Writer Ian Maxtone-Graham had brought the piece to the attention of director Jim Reardon and asked him to try to fit the piece into the flashback.
I had no idea the piece would attract that kind of attention.
The Observer piece got a fair amount of attention from people I knew, but, contrary to what you might think, I've never had friends come and tell me they've read about me (although inevitably they must have).
A complex system like that tends to work better when one company designs every key piece of it with painstaking attention to detail.
