pushing the edge of ordsprog

en pushing the edge of the envelope to attract attention, but it's the wrong subject at the wrong time. He's been going nowhere fast for a long time, and while this may draw fleeting attention, it won't save his faltering career.

en The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
  John Steinbeck

en He was always on the edge, pushing the envelope. He was wired all the time.
  Don Mattingly

en Ground radar from time to time is subject to interference from outside sources. There's nothing wrong with the radar. There's nothing wrong with the relays. Planes aren't disappearing. There's still information on the screen.

en That's not something you ever assume will be the case. But at the same time, when someone like (Izturis) starts telling you something's wrong, you pay attention to it.

en I think something really wrong happened. I think she has passed on by now. She made the wrong decision or was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person.

en I think we've seen a few glimpses of that with Ricky and myself both being in the backfield at the same time, ... Ricky's had success on this level. For myself, it's good being in a game with somebody that can draw attention and take a little bit of attention away from me.

en Law-abiding people who are trying to draw attention to an environmental harm might be worried that they might step over the wrong line and just decide it's not worth it to protest.

en If the wind is going in the wrong direction, you can incapacitate yourself with pepper spray. There are car alarms going off all the time and no one pays any attention.

en I met with the kids and told them that the last thing we need right now is something that will bring attention in the wrong way. We as coaches take responsibility for anything our athletes do off the field, but at the same time we only have so much control over that.

en She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. We don't mind the over-attention at the moment, as long as when this is cleared up, we're able to say, 'Hey, you went wrong here.'

en There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years, ... The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

en He opens up a lot of defenses and brings a lot of attention. When he's out on the wing, the other team has to pay attention to him, and at the same time they have to pay attention to me, so they're stuck in the middle and it creates opportunities for me to score or make a play.

en I think it's a case of serious overexposure. It has the potential to deliver the wrong message to people about politics, that you have to be outrageous and be so out there to really get people's attention ... I think you have to see what he does in the actual act of governing before he deserves more attention.

en I get a lot of attention everywhere I go, but it's the wrong kind of attention.


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