Adjective : an attention-getting device; attention-getting behavior.    From Dictionary.com. 

And clearly, an attention-getting move on her part.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2002] Reference

Mr. Ozawa is also known for attention-getting remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Kingmaker Bids to Seize the Crown] Reference

SIGESMUND: No. KANTOR: ... as an attention-getting device?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2003] Reference

It's not clear if his antics were an attention-getting stunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2007] Reference

BROWN: So he went after these attention-getting kind of cases?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008] Reference

On the one hand they realize this is an attention-getting strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006] Reference

Ah, Fred is just some kind of media attention-getting placeholder anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Allen And Liz Cheney Not Doing Spin Room For Thompson, After All] Reference

They're always very attention-getting because he has a lot of play with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: Style.com's Candy Pratts Price On Fashion Week, Michelle Obama, And Whole-Roasted Chicken] Reference

The true, but dull, facts are rarely as flashy and attention-getting as a bold lie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated"] Reference

The attention-getting boots (which look like Prada) and the bag scream fashionista.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Style: Business Casual] Reference

It ` s not necessarily logical, but it ` s likely attention-getting that you love to seek.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006] Reference

Men of Honor deserves to be one of the year's most attention-getting Christmas blockbusters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top-Tier Toronto: 15 Films to See] Reference

But that was the ego and that was the attention-getting stuff, which I don't live on anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2001] Reference

MONDELLO: Bright red A's sewn into her bodice prove just as attention-getting as you'd expect.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Easy A': Reputation Management, With Hiccups] Reference

That's primal attention-getting stuff that projections (no matter how 3D they are) can't match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lauren Gunderson: Wherefore Theater? Why Is the Ancient Art Still Here?] Reference

But aside from your bold and outgoing attitude, you're attention-needing and attention-getting.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

So they can do big, attention-getting stunts, but they're not really representing the mainstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate] Reference

Some people interpret this kind of behavior by North Korea as kind of an attention-getting device.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006] Reference

He's seeing a newfound surge in his popularity in Iowa, takes on even more attention-getting turns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2007] Reference

KING: But being a very bright woman, you knew that that would be the attention-getting of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 17, 2009] Reference

Therefore be sure that your attention-getting device has at least one of three points of superiority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

But this latest CD has a really attention-getting track on it, this time with a great R&B singer, Mary J.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaka Khan Lives the 'Super Life'] Reference

HAMMER: With hits like "Four Minutes," the master of attention-getting still knows how to keep people guessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 25, 2009] Reference

I guess I wish pretend groping of body parts wasn't something just considered attention-getting and outrageous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

It ` s a cycle, because it ` s always an attention-getting cycle and, whether it ` s bad or good, it ` s good enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference

Rubin's strategy yielded some attention-getting results most notably, perhaps, Cash singing the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice From The Darkness: Johnny Cash's Final Record] Reference

In contrast, ABC's "Ellen" managed to think up a smarter stunt that was equally attention-getting: a cameo by Martha Stewart.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Call This A Golden Age?] Reference

As an attention-getting device the protest achieved its goal, but the white right poses remarkably little threat to de Klerk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toppling The Last Pillars] Reference

On the whole, Murphy said during the press conference, he's trying to avoid attention-getting guest stars on a regular basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [What we learned about 'Glee' at Comic-Con] Reference

But with Tila Tequila ` s reputation for bizarre attention-getting antics, some are wondering if this is another performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2010] Reference

Whether they'll receive Broadway, off-Broadway or even off-Broadway attention-getting airings any time soon isn't guaranteed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tunesmiths Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk: Writing 'Em Like They Used To] Reference

Military officials say it's part of an attention-getting move, and it may be time to coincide with upcoming military hearings.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2006] Reference

As his ratings melt down with the drip, drip, drip of the Greenland Ice cap, will we expect more of these attention-getting devices?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvin Kitman: O'Reilly Does New Hampshire] Reference

Wolf barked then, an attention-getting puppy bark that he found did accomplish his aim, encouraging him to keep it beyond the puppy stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

She was known for attention-getting stunts; she once handed out condoms “for protection against corruption” on the streets of Bogotá.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Colombia's Hostage War] Reference