Sentence examples for plea for attention from inspiring English sources

Many of Trump's Republican opponents have dismissed his recent comments as a plea for attention.

Asked in an interview if he really was suicidal or if it was just a plea for attention, he said with a merry chuckle, "I have no idea".

The lure of blazing a trail — not a raging ego or a plea for attention — is what motivates Smith, same as it did four years ago.

She provided a kind of satiric safe harbor -- she was the smartest person in the picture, even if her brattiness amounted to a petulant plea for attention.

The expression has spread far beyond its original purpose, and now often seems like an all-purpose plea for attention: Hey!

It is, he said, simply another plea for attention on the part of Mr. Jones and an effort to rationalize to his dwindling supporters why he chose not to burn the Korans last year.

They're also pleas for attention; tools of ingratiation, seduction, appeasement; flags of disapproval, contempt, embarrassment.

They may make us feel more techy and efficient, but those pleas for attention also exact a toll.

(The previous two times he had been home with his parents, and, he said, the suicide attempts were pleas for attention).

Having made public nuisances of themselves in the first half of 1998 and all of 1999 -- with all the ads, all the media attention, all the initial offerings -- e-commerce companies for the last 18 months have found their pleas for attention largely ignored by investors and executives waiting to see which players might survive the shakeout.

But the accused priest's moral crisis, the reporter's more mundane problems, which include the contrivance of a former life as a seminarian, and the boy's tearful, impassioned pleas for attention remain dramatically uninvestigated and both confused and confusing as objective overview.