Sentence examples for wanting attention from inspiring English sources
"When it started I was really, really upset, I asked myself 'What have I ever done to them, what have I done wrong?' But now I understand that it's just people wanting attention – I've learnt not to take it personally and use the block button".
Nell Casey, the editor of "An Uncertain Inheritance," also includes essays by Andrew Solomon, Amanda Fortini and Julia Glass that deal with the psychic difficulties of becoming the one who needs the care — "the helplessness of surrendering to another, the paradox of both wanting attention and not".
The ageing narrators of the stories of childhood and early adulthood are good on the urgency with which once-discarded memories can come back, "wanting attention, even wanting you to do something about it, though it's plain there is not on this earth a thing to be done".
And she was a proper little show-off, always wanting attention and approval, but she had forgotten the potty-training bit, how the Truby King mother would sit her tiny baby on the pot all day long and then boast about her success.
Professor Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, is known as a passionate advocate of the value of art college education although in a Guardian interview he confessed he was depressed by some of the "gothic shocking stuff" produced by students wanting attention.
Are we back to wanting attention or stroking their ego?
MOST hotels want attention.
He wants attention and respect.
"They just want attention".
