Attentions

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Tom always surrounds his wife with little attentions.

Tom surrounded his wife with little attentions.

Tom surrounded Mary with little attentions.

Tom escaped the attentions of bullies at secondary school because he was good at football.

Philip Christensen, a geophysicist at Arizona State University, Tempe, focuses his attentions on Mars and Earth.

paid him attentions