It requires sporadic attention, providing a reason to leave the television viewing room as often as the cook desires.

But more immediately, as Mr. Milosevic took aim at the ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo early last year, the Administration paid only sporadic attention.

Edwin paid sporadic attention to her, better at bringing the occasional gift, like a large doll won at a carnival, than at providing any kind of home life.

This long-lamented problem has drawn only sporadic attention from the authorities, who have lacked both money and staff to enforce housing and fire codes.

His body, to which he had been paying only sporadic attention, was making imperative demands.

Harpham calls Žižek's style "a stream of nonconsecutive units arranged in arbitrary sequences that solicit a sporadic and discontinuous attention."

But equally typical were Hirshhorn's sporadic attention and headstrong tastes.

Africa received sporadic attention from the United States during Mr. Clinton's first term.

Africa had received sporadic attention during the first four years of the Clinton Administration.

His political contacts and ambitions receive only sporadic attention.