Sentences with phrase «wrest attention»

And if he'd known about the child, I think he either would have been jealous and tried to wrest attention from the child back toward himself, or indifferent.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

Like most of the upstart league's gestures, the gift combined a gleam of original thinking with a desperate attempt to wrest attention from the NBA.