| And it's also a very lowbrow genre, that nobody is really paying attention to. |
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| Once he was in fifth gear he just cruised, hardly paying attention to his surroundings. |
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| At the same time as the older boy started to play, Alex returned from the twilight zone and started paying attention to the game again. |
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| He regularly determines whether people are paying attention by closing his eyes and blindly walking into traffic. |
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| Instead he got a policy and political blunderbuss who must not have been paying attention during the 2000 presidential campaign. |
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| It is not hopeless, it is not undoable, we have only to marshal the will to start paying attention. |
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| Lars is slippery and slimy, but he still runs into doors sometimes when he's not paying attention. |
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| Moltar was barely paying attention to his cameras, already bored of the lack of action so far. |
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| Their lovely home and Florence's smart clothes might be showing you the benefits of paying attention to this quality in yourself now. |
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| When our leader tells us we are going to war, we should be paying attention to his reasons, not his necktie. |
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| We call it upcountry marketing, paying attention to customers even in places away from the main urban centres. |
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| This is a president who's the biggest spendthrift that I've seen since I've been paying attention in politics. |
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| I really hadn't been paying attention to the news, until they cut to a shot from the news chopper. |
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| And if you're turning your nose up at all things frozen, you haven't been paying attention to Nigella Lawson recently. |
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| She ignored anybody else on the street, not paying attention to the calls she was getting. |
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| For example, paying attention in math class will help you with those monthly cash flow statements. |
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| I snapped my head up towards her, obviously showing that I wasn't paying attention. |
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| She tells herself this regularly, spells it out in case we might have not been paying attention. |
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| He maintains that paying attention is doing something with care, or heedfully, or with enjoyment. |
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| No one was paying attention to the door, so when a very polished, upper-class stringy man walked in, it took awhile for people to notice. |
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| They did so with such energy that I was swept along as well, hardly paying attention to the jokes or the plot. |
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| I know that some of the folks in outlying parishes here in Louisiana are wondering whether or not people are paying attention to them. |
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| If it doesn't give you pause for thought, even in a world besieged by bad news, you aren't paying attention. |
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| Babs suffers a nervous breakdown when she realizes no one is paying attention to her. |
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| They don't consider things like paying attention to their pet, or walking him, giving him exercise, etc. |
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| And when talking person-to-person, making eye contact and nodding at the right times show that you are paying attention. |
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| One of my anonymous commenters made this suggestion in the course of a conversation to which I was no longer paying attention. |
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| I indulged him, nodding my head ever so often and even paying attention to certain parts. |
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| Living in her fantasy kept her from paying attention insomuch that she ran into someone behind her as she worked. |
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| I was paying attention to getting the points tied in and the main halyard stowed. |
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| While it is easier to cast these rumours aside as poppycock, some of them are definitely worth paying attention to. |
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| Regular exercise and paying attention to your posture while working out will take care of many postural problems. |
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| I've been paying attention to what I eat lately and trying to become more conscious of dietary food additives. |
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| Tyler turned his beautiful face to look over at Jane, who was not paying attention and turning the TV on, cuddling up with a pillow. |
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| He had been pondering his next move all the academic day, drifting off into daydreams instead of paying attention in class. |
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| If all this sounds familiar, give yourself a pat on the back for paying attention. |
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| I was forever punished for not paying attention in class and eventually I finished school with minimum grades and poor recommendations. |
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| Thinking back, he vaguely remembered writing or doodling something while not paying attention to the lesson. |
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| She then dropped to the ground, and ran towards a gate, knowing the guards aren't paying attention. |
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| His talk, although I wasn't totally paying attention the whole time, was interesting, thought-provoking and dead on. |
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| We were talking about some bonus accruals again that he was not paying attention to, and of course I did shout. |
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| By paying attention to his lyrical skill, you notice that he is not only a phenomenal rapper, but also a fine poet. |
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| I was paying attention so raptly that I didn't even notice Chris come back in. |
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| By the way they were all paying attention to him so raptly, I could tell he was the ringleader of the group. |
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| Kay was rattling on about some television show but Miki wasn't paying attention. |
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| A passenger in his car, his son, said he had not been paying attention to the road ahead as they travelled towards their home. |
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| She was gazing into the mirror, not really paying attention to the task at hand when a knock sounded at the door. |
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| Furthermore we also discussed the matter of paying attention to the correspondence and wordings of short term insurance contracts. |
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| Janelle laughed as Shane and Tristan rehashed old tour memories, hoping she at least looked like she was paying attention. |
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| They sat in a circle, their sketch books on their laps or bended knees, though none of them seemed to be paying attention to their work. |
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| She possessed the ability to read at lightning speed and had near photographic memory retention whenever she was actually paying attention. |
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| Is anyone really paying attention to those advisories about content on cable? |
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| Some of his best poems begin simply with the act of listening, of readiness to be astonished, of paying attention. |
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| The guys who aren't profitable aren't paying attention to the business end of things. |
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| Like a determined sleuth, I followed the sound, hardly paying attention to the ground where I walked. |
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| Learning about the environment meant paying attention to don't litter signs. |
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| In my frantic sprint to reach the girl in time, I hadn't been paying attention to the ground below me. |
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| He was talking to me, and I was trying to say my speech, but he wasn't paying attention. |
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| She was busy texting someone throughout the game and so wasn't paying attention. |
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| I once again drifted off into a different plane, not paying attention to what was happening around me, never mind on the tennis court. |
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| He wasn't paying attention since he saw that a forced mate resulted from the line he actually played. |
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| One day while serving at table he was reprimanded for not paying attention to his duties. |
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| She was approaching a hill when she became mesmerized by the stars and wasn't paying attention to where she was going. |
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| She's relaxed and friendly, and it's easy to slip into casual conversation and away from the professional mien if one is not paying attention. |
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| I was filtering out all verbal communication and only paying attention to body language, and entered a really peaceful trance state. |
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| When people mislabel objects, they often blame themselves for rushing their words or not paying attention. |
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| They text while accidentally steering their shopping cart into nearby shopping carts since they aren't paying attention. |
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| The waiter, with his nose in the air, wasn't paying attention to anything. |
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| With Bulgaria's top officials playing musical chairs as the new government comes into power, they had better be paying attention to this developing problem. |
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| If our goal is to flag an issue that nobody is paying attention to. |
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| She picked up a plate and handed it to him, but he wasn't paying attention and it fell down into the sink, splashing both of them with dirty dishwater. |
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| This year, the coaches are not giving lip service, but they are paying attention, and special teams plays turned the opening game against the Bears into a laugher. |
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| At the front of the large university classroom, a teacher was still lecturing the class, completely unaware that two of the many students were no longer paying attention. |
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| The really sad part is the average US citizen is not paying attention, as long as they have their cars and their munchies they they see no further need to bestir themselves. |
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| For background music to a house party, or for driving on a sunny day with the windows open when you don't feel like paying attention to detail, it's good. |
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| Uppermost is paying attention to what is going on there, so I can come home and tell a story that in some way or other is useful to the community. |
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| I think it's meant to provoke a reaction to a classroom full of students at Columbia University Facebooking and GMailing and IMing instead of paying attention in class. |
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| Some communities have only recently begun paying attention to the debate. |
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| The scholars who were paying attention to the exercise of power by national and global systems were generally not interested in the environment and natural resources. |
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| And it was so refreshing that this guy, who was out of his gourd by eight o'clock at night, was listening to the music and paying attention and thinking about it. |
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| Those of us devoted to this stuff can sniff out when voters were paying attention and when they were just being lazy. |
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| When she finally started paying attention to the professor, he could see a look of vague irritation at the professor's sharp accent, which was a grating sound to anyone's ear. |
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| She graduates high school at the beginning of the film, so either she's been driving without a license, or the scriptwriters weren't paying attention. |
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| Archaeology is about paying attention to things that have been or could be indetectable or invisible to others. |
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| We all jumped, surprised that she was even paying attention. |
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| He was always so thoughtful, paying attention to every small detail. |
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| He thought the London location would alter the emphasis from paying attention to the working class audience to one of trying to get good notices from the London critics. |
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| We begin to notice that while we thought we were paying attention to our abdomen, we were not actually aware of the literal physical sensations of this part of our body. |
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| Otherwise, the powers that be will know who's not paying attention and important youth policy initiatives will be the first on the chopping block. |
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| I like it mainly because it cooks up al dente like pasta should if you are paying attention, and then retains its toothsomeness instead of turning to mush. |
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| His hands are tender rather than frantic, he's concentrating, working me out, paying attention to detail, reciprocating in kind rather than just grabbing what's on offer. |
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| I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying attention to the weather report of the local newspaper. |
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| So, be careful what you are paying attention to. If it looks like someone is yanking your chain, he or she probably is. |
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| By paying attention to lenders' needs, Dorado has been able to meld their architecture philosophy to the mortgage banking process. |
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| It's ridiculous that the media is not paying attention to us,'' said Maria Rangle, a downtown garment worker. |
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| Paying attention to the weather or climate is not the same as paying attention to the habits of echidnas or honeyeaters. |
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| Sometimes you can actually see a dip in business if the chef isn't paying attention to back of house. |
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| There, you'll notice that Slaves go against the trend for American scruffiness by paying attention to what they're wearing, both onstage and off. |
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| I guess the others weren't paying attention, although I have a really good car for restarts. |
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| To be fair, the movie is slow at times, which as a fan I liked, as it was paying attention to every single detail, but will understandably turn off the casual viewer. |
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| Can you imagine paying attention to the feeling of space between all of your fingers, just as you feel the purlicue between your thumb and index finger? |
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| Other messages on becoming street smart include car safety, trusting instincts and personal alarms, and paying attention to behaviors and body languages. |
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| That's just putting random words together, working on the fact that no one's paying attention, and if they were it would be only to mock their physical funniness. |
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| Some of the OPEC member countries have enhanced their production rate based on their production capacity without paying attention to the production ceiling. |
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| When we see a bird that looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, paying attention to Occam's razor, we have to infer that this bird must be a duck. |
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| Before considering this evidence about MS in general, it is worth paying attention to the evidence that has accrued recently about Devic's disease or neuromyelitis optica. |
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