upstage
misdirect
deflect
red herring
distract
distractionist
preoccupy
catch the eye
inconspicuously
unfocus
catch flies
holler copper
spotlight
conspicuously
distractionism
deter
distraction
misdirection
eye-catching
outshout
slip through the cracks
bring
catch someone napping
underscorer
diversion
underscore
ostentatious
tubthump
pretentious
withdraw
overfocus
make a splash
lightning rod
highlighting
divertingly
put off
cheat out
miscue
put aside
upstaging
attention-grabbing
attentionally
tenuki
every shut eye isn't asleep
center
concentrate
centre
focus
pore
divert
rivet
cryingly
distracter
shut one's eyes
diversionism
what am I, chopped liver
take one's eye off the ball
eye
attention whore
rock the boat
catch someone's eye
arrest
sore-thumbish
turn to
change the channel
fail to notice
highlight
play up
unbias
foreground
undistractedness
egotrip
bystander
back away
observant
branch off
skew
bound up
buck-and-wing
look off
refer
loudly
reticent
work the room
clamorously
abstract
obstreperously
shrug
skim
befog
turn