Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.

Some writers were astounded by the plentiful "trash" attracting inordinate public attention.

Even Maria, I noted, studied him with inordinate attention.

Throughout the conversation he has a difficult time not being distracted by the attractive waitress, who pays him inordinate attention.

This inordinate attention to the past arises from both shame and pride.

Many classrooms now devote inordinate attention to preparing for multiple-choice exams, they said, rather than teaching broader skills like reading, writing and abstract thinking.

The color scheme happened to get inordinate attention that year, so the cycle was stopped lest it cause confusion the following election.

At first, his government paid "inordinate attention" to "courting, assuaging and persuading the media," he said.

Ideally, she said, it requires no utensils and does not drip, crumble or demand inordinate attention on its path from hand to mouth.

Yet the health-care system, as I soon discovered, requires doctors to give inordinate attention to matters of payment and expenses.