object of attention

Sitting up on the ER gurney — breathing was easier — I found myself the object of attention and the subject of an experience.

The object of attention, and affection, was our instructor, the Los Angeles-based botanical artist Kristen Alpaugh — she of the HBO Max reality show “Full Bloom” and more than 39,000 followers on Instagram.

Campbell has always been the object of attention, even before he had hair.

She saw herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.

Several studies now suggest that people with autism may be less responsive to, or less aware of, being the object of attention of others.