Or at least you might think so if last week's action in Washington escaped your attention.

What they said to each other next escaped my attention.

So great a movement as this could not escape their attention.

But so easy, also, to allow things to escape one's attention.

And there's the second point that may have escaped your attention.

Three decades ago, he would not have escaped their attention.

No aspect of city government was too small to escape his attention.

How this hot box escaped attention until too late has never been explained.

But he also made it clear that no detail was too small to escape his attention.

She wasn't certain exactly what he was watching for, but no detail escaped his attention.