He accepted the ironic smiles of the owner of the house, Blanca’s grimaces, and the perennial distraction of Clara, who, even after a year, was still asking him his name. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Nana took advantage of the slightest distraction on Nivea’s part to persist in her attempts to cure the child’s muteness with the same remedy she used for hiccups. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Work, during this time, felt like a distraction—the thing we had to do before we were allowed to charge back toward each other again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It does distract me from my other distractions for a bit, and I’m able to knock out my homework and shower without getting sidetracked. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I hate shopping, but I’m glad for the distraction, to not have to worry about Missus Stein or Aibileen for an afternoon. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The stories offered some distraction, but not enough. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I needed you to focus on learning the songs with as few distractions and as little stress as possible.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Monte Carlo had begun to bore her, and this little illness would make a distraction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully that would help, as long as they could cause a big enough distraction to get to the door first. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was so wonderful having you here. I only wish...I wish there hadn’t been so many distractions. It wasn’t fair for you to get caught up in that trial business.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he felt the bat coasting down for a landing, he was relieved at the distraction, although he disliked meeting up with Luxa and Henry again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Practicing there would let them play without distractions or fear for their safety. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But June said she needs the distraction of school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My search for a distraction in my past. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The distraction allowed Octavian’s army to go ashore in Greece. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Having something to do would distract me, and I could use a distraction right now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why would she need a distraction from Cliff?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Still, in broad terms, the safety advocates hoped the successes with seat belts and drunk driving would provide a blueprint for addressing cell phone distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That mess is a distraction of the worst kind,” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was just another distraction and I had to put it out my mind like any other distraction. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rang and I leapt up, grateful for the distraction. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The noise they were making would be a good distraction. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said he’d published more than fifty articles in major scientific journals, around twenty of them on issues pertaining to driving impairment, attention and distraction behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps previously, I had awakened only at night; or perhaps in my distraction, my sight as well as my other faculties had been rendered inoperative. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My presence was getting to be a distraction, and Coach looked at me like it was my fault Will and Drew and Steve hated me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I need a distraction!” shouted Jesper from somewhere in the storm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We walked for almost an hour, just listening, enjoying being close to each other without the distraction of the others and the reminder that we were so much less than before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I used their distraction to conceal the glass slippers in the folds of my skirt. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hard work’s a good distraction. But maybe you should take a break. “ Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For this reason be automatically wondered whether he had not perhaps been discourteous to the butler in his distraction. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day was a blur of distraction. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There would be no media distraction to save me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But this, scaling the ladder for the high dive drives me to distraction. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By way of distraction, I presented Charles with the orchid. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Except now he doesn’t have any AP classes to enroll in as a distraction. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No toys for kids, no dolls, no distractions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When there were too many distractions in her personal space, she was never able to focus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

See, Blackjack had been a captive on board Luke’s ship last summer, until we’d caused a little distraction that allowed him to escape. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It proved relatively easy, actually, because for the first time in several days, he had no distractions. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I am already so busy working for Chandresh, and I will need to focus on the competition without...distraction,” he says, using his instructor’s choice of word, from an order disguised as a suggestion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everything outside the two of us was a distraction. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The absence of news about the year’s biggest story drove the reporters to distraction. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, in early April, Bunderson fired back with a three-page motion that put a fine point on his argument about distraction and frame of mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I needed a distraction, and he needed an actor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The large boys turned, and I took immediate advantage of the distraction. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not all of Kepler’s ‘distractions’ from his planetary work lacked scientific significance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fortunately it came at a time when there was no distraction; for had it occurred whilst we were at a station, we might not have secured the necessary calm and isolation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I use Len’s distraction to pick up a rock and throw it into the opening. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Hazel—all the gold in these nests. Do you think you can use it to cause a distraction?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a plan other than to create a distraction to the point of chaos. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They didn’t need him along, but Jesper was desperate for distraction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Randall forbade religion on his plantation to eliminate the distraction of deliverance, and churching never interested her once she came to South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though the shingles of the original storefront were smaller than those of the addition, they blended together fine, he thought; plus with the sign as a distraction, who would notice? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking, as I said—along with the rest of life’s acrobatics—can be seen in a certain light as a distraction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to take quick advantage of his distraction and set his candle aflame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas stood, hoping the time for answers had come—or maybe hoping for a distraction from his gloomy thoughts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“When I am not there, this is where you’ll find me. You are welcome any time, day or night. Should you ever be in the mood for a distraction.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“When it does begin, it would be wise to focus your attention on the competition itself”—his eyes move pointedly to the closed door to the study—“without any distractions.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jule was anxious to say the right thing, but she didn’t know if sympathy or distraction was required. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Six months is a long time for a family to tolerate itself without any outside distractions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A distraction. The Greeks fear our attack. They’re trying to confuse us. It’s the Trojan Horse all over again!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It would be the perfect distraction while I snuck off to check the mail. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stir the broom, grateful for the distraction. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No distractions, nothing to stop myself from blurting the things that come to mind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing so excusable that caused her distraction this time—on a cold day in February. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“A prank designed to lull the administration into a false sense of security,” the Colonel answered, annoyed by the distraction. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The only distraction was staring at the clock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You see? That pace would never be possible in the public school. You can only do that at home, where you can sit down and really focus, with no distractions.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With my eyes closed, a lot of the distractions disappeared. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘The three of them sneak in and disable the onagers, cause a distraction. Then the rest of us fly in with ballistae blazing.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This fire had only been a distraction, a controlled burn to keep the fire department busy. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In her distraction, Juanita had obviously given him too much rein. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I laugh and say it’s better than being in an empty house, and anyway, I can get my work done faster there without the distraction of the TV. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He shut out all distractions and heard his own heartbeat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her skeletal horses seemed immune to the distraction. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer had my sons, and Clara, with her habits of silence and distraction, seemed like a far-off ghost. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s fast, and you were able to perform that experiment quickly because you were able to concentrate on the task and block out distractions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

As had been the case since I first met him, nighttime was when Barack’s mind traveled without distraction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ferula’s affection for her sister-in-law became a passion, a dedication to waiting on her and caring for her and an unlimited tolerance for her distractions and eccentricities. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny found myriad avenues of distraction from his family’s penury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need a distraction—something that will allow us to get out of the Mess without being caught. At least not right away,” I explain. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His face was such a distraction that I tried not to look at it any more than courtesy absolutely demanded. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The dreams, the distraction, the visit to Uncle Jack, the article. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Questing kept me busy and served as a welcome distraction from the growing loneliness and isolation I felt. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I’d decided that everything outside the window was a distraction from my quest, so I didn’t need to waste time staring at it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In 2008, as the Reggie saga wore on, Harsha and others were trying to apply what they knew about drunk driving and seat belts to the issue of cell phone distraction by motorists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Would I be able to do my best onstage—ignore all the buzzing in my head, all the noisy distractions, and just hear the beautiful blue sky of my trumpet? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once the dance is in full swing, the music becomes a constant distraction. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or people, either, if you can help it. We re going to run a dean race. Just keep the distractions away and let me concentrate on driving.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a quick introduction, Abby’s mom talked and talked, and I was glad for the distraction. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, Simitian pointed out that the California Highway Patrol had been collecting data since 2001 and found that cell phone use was the number one cause each year in distractions leading to car accidents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know if it was helping Jack, but it gave her some distraction from the things churning inside her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And these, mine enemies, are all knit up in their distractions.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He proved to be more of a distraction than an asset. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At times I find carrying on my blossoming business career rather painful, suffering as I do from these distractions at home. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slightest distraction or additional fear or pain caused her story to snarl like a ball of yarn. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, another noisy distraction caught my attention. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was all depressing, but it was a distraction from obsessively picking at my face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“The results are always more significant if the patient and I are alone when the psychosubstantiation tests are performed. External distractions have a deleterious effect on the ramified scores.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But those were momentary acts, not systemically provable acts of distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It'll be too complicated, Mom. I don’t want to have to explain everything to everybody. Not yet. It'll be too big of a distraction. It'll be better if I’m not there.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her older boys, even her nineteen-year-old, stayed close to her at home despite the many distractions that emerged as they finished high school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Fine, then do something about the boy! Remove the distractions!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Our group was large enough that keeping it together could be a challenge, especially in a place like this, full of distractions tailor- made to fascinate children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully it won’t have to for very long. I just need a distraction so we can make it to that window.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As he said this, Kilvin looked directly at me, and for a moment there was none of his characteristic distraction lurking behind his eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If she could cause a distraction, she might be able to escape and find her friends. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The way Anthony saw things, each time one of their leaders married, it created one more obstacle, one more distraction that would interfere with the progress of suffrage and women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Glad to be rid of the distraction, I opened the door for her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We were able to take our leading-edge research in driver distraction and pair it with cutting-edge neuroscience.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Still—if she couldn’t get Varney to make a run for it, at least she could cause a distraction. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When Grandma showed up with Marcus’s next letter, I opened it right away, happy for the distraction. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Clara had lost her angelic distraction and was helping to remove the stones with the strength of a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t make sense, I knew, but it was a distraction and made me quit looking over my shoulder for cops every three seconds. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were both too dazed, too wired to sleep, and that first day at Yuko and Ahmaad’s house was full of welcome distraction. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

However, that was a distraction; Lyra was still intent on playing Gobblers, and she inveigled Roger down into the wine cellars, which they entered by means of the Butler’s spare set of keys. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Baby sheep, lost in the woods, must immediately search for their mothers—no distractions from strangers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe we could hide in the debris and the chaos around us, and with so much noise and distraction everywhere, the hollows would pass us by. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the school year, David went away to college out of state, which conveniently kept him from being any sort of distraction from my studies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I am a tangle of giggles and distractions and delirium. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In solitary, there is no distraction from these haunting questions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut out all distractions from my life so I could focus only on fencing, and yet alarming current events continued to dominate the headlines, making it very hard to stay focused. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It was Jesse. I wanted him to focus on his studies. You were a distraction.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My problem was that I wasn’t big or tough enough to really protect or defend my little brother in any manner save for my sometimes creative use of sarcasm as distraction. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We don’t need any distractions on this journey. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Without the distraction of human voices, Molly imagines she can hear sounds in other rooms: bedsprings groaning, faucets dripping, fluorescent lights humming, pull chains rattling. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The piece of home was tiny and so only bought her a second’s worth of distraction. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To Kit’s relief a distraction awaited them at home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Trying not to die was the best possible distraction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I tell myself that this is a good distraction, because it keeps me from spiraling into thoughts of nasty things that may or may not be happening at school. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

So safety advocates cautioned against making a perfect comparison between driver distraction by cell phone and drunk driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Adults can never just talk to me without the distraction of some activity keeping them firmly in their own world. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

So she could use some distraction and someone to talk to. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As she wanders around gazing into the glass cases full of stuff so sparkly, some of it hurts Scoob’s eyes to look at, he decides to try and make the most of her distraction. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Mia is still unconscious, but her vital signs are improving,” she tells the assembled relatives, who have abandoned their distractions haphazardly on the chairs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hob women rarely participated in the feasts, but Nag hustled about in her helpful way, rounding up little ones from their distractions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But the majority was on driving and distraction, and most of it was not well funded. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the time and distraction that worried him; although he was frugal, he doubted he would ever make enough money by collecting beetles and writing about coral. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace got the feeling that he was used to steering Maya away from things, like a distraction technique people used on toddlers. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Just like I told you. The art of distraction. You took your eye off the shells when the monkey jumped on your shoulder. Nikki did his part and the shell guy switched the shells.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the distractions that came along with being popular and adored. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The special festivities held enough distractions, with so many people milling around the train depot, that no one noticed Ned Gillen at the army recruitment station, signing his name on the dotted line. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anya had meant to get him talking as a distraction, but now she listened, completely enthralled. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The coyote would tear her from the tree soon, or grow impatient with her distractions and return to the trail she’d diverted him from. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As such, Dr. Gazzaley thinks the concept of distraction provides a powerful lens through which to view the science of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It provided a distraction, watching Mrs. Weasley force Charlie into a chair, raise her wand threateningly, and announce that he was about to get a proper haircut. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dad will know how to fix it and might need a distraction when I’m gone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I take advantage of the distraction to stand up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

All these, however, were mere distractions compared to the single most important task on Burnham’s roster: the selection of architects to design the fair’s major buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s the promise of the warm schoolhouse, Miss Larsen’s friendly smile, and the distraction of other lives, other worlds on the pages of the books we read in class, that get me out the door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needing distraction from the news on the radio—it was getting worse every hour—she stopped periodically at whatever stores or restaurants were open. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then, he stamped on the heavy boy’s foot and grabbed the nozzle during that moment of distraction. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait. Now I’m a distraction? Is this because I’m ‘not the hero’ or whatever?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Sure you do. All that aside, this is a distraction on so many levels,” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She hoped the shock would not undo any of the progress the children had made in their lessons, and tried to offer soothing distractions. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Thomas lost sight of the body as he struggled with Newt, thankful for the distraction. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We could chalk it up to any number of distractions. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it would be a distraction from my forehead, but the style bugs me now. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The greatest distraction, though, came in the years after 1615, when Kepler’s mother was accused of witchcraft. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even in his distraction his shoulders were well back, and his chin was raised like an old-fashioned boxer’s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hubbub and confusion of the scene was a welcome distraction, and during the next ten minutes buses one, two, and three filled up and pulled away with their noisy loads. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She admired the older girl Hortensia to distraction for the daring deeds she had performed in the school. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fair distraction while Stanchion gathered opinions from the crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Despite his odd expressions, his strange distraction, and that annoying way he had of creeping up on a person, they knew him as well as they knew anyone. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I focused on it, glad for the distraction, glad for anything that might keep me from thinking clearly for just a few more seconds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as though for the first time she was completely alone—where she had always wanted to be—free of the possibility of distraction. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now it seems the other tributes were just minor obstacles, distractions, keeping us from the real battle of the Games. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had only meant for it to be a distraction, I think; a flash and a bang to draw the attention of our attackers away from us long enough for an escape. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer had made an important connection between the past research in the attention/distraction field and the challenges faced by multitasking drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe Nina would be glad for the distraction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Bull, the last time you chose a house for the family,” Lillian said, “it was so small a family of fleas would have been cramped to distraction. But this...” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d need a distraction. Maybe right after dinner. Everyone will be at the Mess. We’ll be really close to the main entrance.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He actually liked how she would get infuriated—but they had too much work to do to indulge in emotional distraction. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since 1990, when Dr. Strayer had begun digging into the issue of driving and attention/distraction, he’d studied the subject from numerous angles, amassing a host of papers on various nuances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

During the boredom of her abandonment her only distractions were the clavichord lessons at siesta time and the letters from her children. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wants to show me the power of distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favour, conduced to my distraction. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His usual fidgety distraction is replaced with a determination I have never seen. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We’d decided to paint one of her mom’s step stools as a distraction; Abby’s mom was so short, she carried around a lightweight collapsible stool to all major events. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to sit with him, but there was so much I wanted explained that I knew I would be too much of a distraction. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he had been confined twenty-three hours a day to his cell, with no distractions, no companionship or beauty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

People don’t get me, and I don’t really need the distractions. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

These are the kinds of questions I use to drive myself to distraction, when the boys are out and I’m crazed with loneliness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But an idle mind tends to sink, so the mind should be kept occupied with whatever light distraction may suggest itself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his father would create some kind of distraction and allow him to slip through...perhaps... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alma Ember was beginning to become less of a welcome distraction and more of an inconvenience to me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I gave up distraction as a lost cause. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back to her, grateful for the distraction, but suddenly very conscious of exactly how I’m sitting. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone expected him to get straight As his first semester, but for someone who had lived in a bus or on a boat for the last ten years, there were too many distractions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then she turns to the starter and says, “So why is she here? If she knows she’s a distraction to everyone, why is she here?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Policy makers, like Secretary LaHood, who made driver distraction a national priority, certainly have had a huge impact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I also spent hours observing him because it was a distraction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This, of course, had always been the fear—that some drunk, some group of high-school or college kids would be bored and use the plane as a temporary distraction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Attendant’s charge has passed out, and the woman’s serving girl is trying to alternately drag her or revive her with smelling salts while the Attendant provides a distraction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t really know why I suddenly had to see them now, except maybe they were a distraction I could really, really count on. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hopefully that would help, as long as they could cause a big enough distraction to get to the door first. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now it was hardly more than a distraction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He knew Luke wasn’t ready to laugh about this, but Toby needed a distraction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If I were a little bummed out, I’d probably welcome the distraction that is Ducky’s charm and the ridiculousness of Steff as a high school senior in an oxford unbuttoned to his midriff. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t see you at dinner last night,” Ekon noted, trying for a distraction. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Beethoven could not hide his unstable emotions from the music, nor did he use the job of music-making as a distraction from the difficulties of life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a helpful distraction, so for a while I indulge it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Hoping to focus the horse’s mind on his job and reduce the distractions of the rail, Smith fitted Seabiscuit with a set of blinkers that restricted his vision to the track straight ahead of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was thick and dark, and tearing chunks of it gave us distraction for our hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Richard’s lawyer, Bill Du Bois, thought the whole restorative justice discussion was a distraction. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hit B’s party. You obviously need the distraction.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was grateful for the distraction when Marcus sent me a text. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She was itching to read it, and she really needed a distraction, but somehow, she couldn’t even stomach fun right now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Unless they could create a distraction, how could they escape? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It felt invigorating, even if it was nothing more than a simple distraction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Looking for a bit of distraction, I started testing out the elasticity of the phone cord, seeing how many times I could loop it around my neck. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The beepers, newspapers, and magazines were distractions—we weren’t supposed to be occupied with any of that while on the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to find ways to block out all of the distractions in order to fully focus on the goal ahead of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His lessons consisted of an endless series of distractions all invented by him so that the subject of mathematics would never have to be discussed. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy spent the rest of the morning lost in excited distraction, wondering if his plan might actually work. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am happy to have distractions kept to a minimum.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tale about focusing, about peeling away distractions one by one until all that was left was the target. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a distraction, I told her about my unanswered letters. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With that distraction gone, I hear another sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She accused him of nothing, but more and more he sensed her distance, her dissatisfaction, her distraction. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To assist others, to help and heal, it was a good distraction. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So the warnings the girls got were part of a whole group of things to look out for lest the baby come here craving or favoring the mother’s distraction. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to consider the University of Alabama, because it was closer to home and didn’t have all the distractions of a big city like Los Angeles. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But with so few distractions in this place, what else am I supposed to think of? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should stay home, but I’m not sure I could bear being alone as her for that long without any distractions. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

This was a nice distraction, and I was glad Conner and I were friends again. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

To accomplish that, he needed to clear his head, to flush away all distraction, especially the memory of the butterscotch Krimpets, which had already hooked him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also had other distractions revolving around his position at Trinity College and his own unorthodox religious convictions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Your old friend Mr. Flux. I’ve had some unexpected distractions, but I’ve been looking forward to this visit for a long time.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sonix was generally used on canines, but in this case it might provide a moment’s distraction. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I need a distraction from my own skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But I can, I decide, create a distraction and sneak past the guards. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get back to work. Sorry for the distraction.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But my few seconds of distraction cost me big: next thing I knew, B-Cubed was flying at me...and sinking into a slide. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

We had many arguments about this, and I patiently explained to her that politics was not a distraction but my lifework, that it was an essential and fundamental pan: of my being. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, the doctor came in to save us from the equally awkward distraction of cartoons. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And while these surface thoughts were providing some distraction, I knew that the other nine-tenths of this mental iceberg, the deadly part that was hidden below, was all about Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhearing gossip about Clay became a similar distraction. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Not to mention a distraction from the incessant prom talk, the bitter icing on the rotten cake of senior year. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The only one who continued completely unaffected was Clara, who in her distraction and innocence had no idea of what was going on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, great,” Lily said, but her tone revealed her distraction. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The dullness of military life, the endless repetition of duties, the standing in line to eat, to use the bathroom, to shave, served as no distraction at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But here all of a sudden was distraction, escape, novelty, sensation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They had almost finished when there came another distraction, though, and from Lyra’s point of view, it was the worst possible. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure Father resented his own daughter being such a distraction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But then it started falling off. The school’s not good for me. There’s too many distractions. I need to go to a smaller environment where I can focus.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

McCoy had used Cliff and Ria as a distraction and Miles was laying on the tiled floor in a puddle of his own blood. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the ability to omit an agent comes in handy because the minor characters in the story are a distraction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Apparently his evasive driving skills extended to navigating Laleh past potential distractions. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Basketball will be a distraction from schoolwork,” Baba says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“A con is merely the art of distraction.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway I just got your beautiful letter and I love you to pieces, distraction, etc., and can hardly wait for the weekend. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Whatever his boy needed—protection, distraction, affection—he would have offered. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Until that moment, tears had welled in my eyes, but I had beaten them back with furious blinking or distraction. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I love putting luminaria up every year because it is very beautiful and a tradition and a good distraction from my birthday. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That this Carl Conundrum jaunt is actually meant to be a distraction from all that, but it isn’t working? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

"A cruel maid. My ship is well named. If I steer her onto the rocks in my distraction, you'll have yourself to blame." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Irritated by the distraction, Devine broke in, “Explain to me, Shorty, will you? just what you know about the meeting they had.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use the distraction to slip quietly past. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But over time she began to understand that what she saw as a distraction was actually good for me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bobby closed his eyes to counter any further Talian shenanigans—he didn’t have to see his position, since it was imprinted in his mind—and tried to block out any other distractions. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’d dropped his guard, let his mind give in to distraction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But the distraction’s not working, so I shut it down. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He only needed a moment’s distraction to draw his sword. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

These patches of disorder make no difference — it is a house too spectacular to suffer distraction, forgiving of oversight and mess. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only minor distraction was Holly Deblin, the new girl, asking if she could go to the sick bay for a bit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Asra was not, I think, unwilling to die, but he was afraid of dying; he sought distraction from his fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We end up watching part of an episode of Adventure Time as a compromise, and it’s the exact perfect distraction. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

To get close enough to actually kill the lion, the hunters needed to create a distraction. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I’m thankful for the distraction because no one pays much attention to me and Elsie whispering near the back of the crowd. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Waiting for an opportune moment of parental distraction, she calmly disengaged herself and followed the sign. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I can even do my homework without distractions, play records, dance, and sing along to my favorite songs. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cell phone industry officials said that the fact traffic deaths hadn’t soared meant that distraction from electronic gadgets was being overblown as a threat. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Which left me with little in the way of distractions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But there was no doubt about it that the life Andrew led bored him to distraction. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Howard was driven to distraction and needed something to keep himself busy. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Dr. Strayer and others, the answer is that the rise in driver distraction, caused in large part by new technology, has undermined the gains those other safety measures have made. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Our library,” said Dr. Gaffney, “contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don’t encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but it’s such a distraction. And if it doesn’t work out, then it was a waste of time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Among those three hundred people gathered at the distracted-driving summit, there were vigorous voices of people who lost family members, who created MADD-like groups to take on distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Even if he’s just purely a distraction, I just need...I dunno, something good to happen.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pulled away from the nudge in distraction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After Malia started tennis, I mostly watched her matches through the window of a Secret Service vehicle parked discreetly near the courts, not wanting to create a distraction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It had driven me to distraction to not know, made it harder to keep moving day after day without understanding what was on our heels. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Dean made the most of the Death Eater’s momentary distraction, knocking him out with a Stunning Spell; Dolohov attempted to retaliate and Parvati shot a Body-Bind Curse at him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For J. T., violence was a distraction from the business at hand; he would have preferred that his members never fired a single gunshot. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The competition had started as a Depression-era distraction, a way to create something out of nothing when nothing was what most people had. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Every time I look up and see something going on, some distraction. There you are. Right at the center of it. Do you need to take your test out in the hall?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pong had never felt more exposed in his life, but there were so many people and so many distractions that nobody gave him a second look. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My congenital distraction sometimes fascinated him and sometimes amused him, but mostly it just drove him crazy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This thought process is not exactly a helpful distraction, so I even give number 22, “Contemplate the afterlife,” on my to-do list a try, and read some of Life, Death, and Immortality. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He was not bored; he had no desire for conversation or distraction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I took advantage of his momentary distraction and twisted away from him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to grow out of his strange distraction. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The judge said he feared that some will view the decision he is poised to announce without understanding the severity and complexity of distraction science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The distraction buys me some time to think. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They used the least distraction on the pan of the inhabitants of the house to sneak down to the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s had her fun, her little party, all those distractions in the Windy City, but there are a lot of miles of farmland in between Illinois and Pittsburgh. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s concern, Frank recalled, was that politics might cause dissension and distraction on the laboratory floor—creating what he called “inhomogeneity” in the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I worked mightily to think about anything other than Jeffrey’s gushing nose, but the distractions were truly pointless. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beetle took advantage of Will’s distraction to duck beneath his arm, loop her skirts between her legs, and take off down the road to the river. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nivea would pull Clara’s braids and that would be enough to wake her daughter from her mad distraction and return the saltcellar to immobility. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Art3mis felt that meeting you two right now would be an unnecessary distraction. She wanted to wait until after the ‘big event.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is about distraction and camouflage and surprise and timing. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He aimed for distraction at the moment instead. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Spittle flies from his mouth, and the distraction is just what I need to end this whole mess. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But what Calvin thinks is this: The tractor is a distraction. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I say “we,” but I was still trying to take Coach’s advice and ignore all distractions, so when it came up, I tried not to engage. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The pain made her desperate for distraction, and she looked at the preacher in the eyes for the first time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind was scratching itself raw over how Mum and Dad'll react to what I did today, so I got the Christmas tree out of its cupboard as a distraction. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I used the distraction to wipe at my eyes and sniff a bit. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was no reason why Liam couldn’t think that his friend had made it home to his parents; no reason he needed another distraction from getting home himself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Desperate for something to do, for distraction, he slipped out of his sleeping bag, picked up his wand, and crept out of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The stage was half the size of the Globe's, which drove us to distraction. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, though, they found out that there was a good reason for Finn’s odd expressions, his strange distraction, that annoying way he had of creeping up on a person. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This kind of argument was essentially a distraction from Galileo’s medical studies, although in any case he did not pursue these with any enthusiasm. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There are too many distractions, and so I talk over the noise to Ryan, but he’s more interested in sneaking his hand up my shirt. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Holmes turned his attention to other, more pleasant distractions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He promises, later in the night, maybe back at the Gazzloft when First Friday starts, to show a trick or two—to demonstrate more about the power of attention and distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After years of focusing on distraction, Dr. Strayer was fascinated by this group of people. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Young women, this is what this mentorship program is about. We will have fun, yes. But we will also discuss some of the distractions and barriers to success and hopefully gain strategies for overcoming them.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I took advantage of my mother’s momentary distraction to keep the subject from returning to my less-than- candid behavior. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis, from the distraction of his countenance, clearly thought on our straights, and found little comfort there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He considered waking up Boots, his two-year-old sister, just for a little distraction, but he let her sleep. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With “Great Directors” behind her, she is returning to the movie she was working on when the documentary provided a much-needed distraction. Up Close: Angela Ismailos Recounts the Story of Her Film of 10 Directors 2010-06-30T17:50:00Z

It’s also a visual that is perhaps too on the nose, but at the same time, let it be understood that Emily Dickinson loved death to distraction long before Bergman did. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Her reflection is cut short by some distraction – a ringing telephone will do, or her name being called by one of the children – and the matter is soon forgotten. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

When I got to college, I no longer had the distractions of overachievement I had in high school. Can "stanning” be a form of recovery? Healing and trauma in fandom communities 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

I used this question as a distraction from figuring out my own income. Depressed and with my income gone, one simple question saved me 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

But all the technical bells and whistles, while smoothly produced, ultimately feel less like integral elements than a distraction from stock characters and a thin, overlong plot. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

“They only detract from any movie worth seeing for its own sake. The wanderings of waitstaff, however careful and considerate, the clink of silverware, even the Smell-O-Vision aroma factor, are unworthy distractions.” Why Can’t You Get a Decent Meal at the Movies? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

But Tim finds a distraction—while scratching around on the hilly property, he finds a gun and what looks like a human bone, and can’t interest the L.A.P.D. in the story. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Thoughts of your ex are surfacing just as they might be expected to, and without the distraction of daily life it’s hard to shrug off such melancholic meanderings. My partner left me before lockdown and I can't get over him 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

“Dead Poets Society” needs the cinematic distractions of detailed sets and fluid camera work. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he does so just so he might work without distraction. At Brookland’s newest apartments, an unlikely amenity: Artists.

At night the abstract play of lights from vehicles and buildings, however much it may seem at odds with the nature of the presentation, generally affords edification of its own rather than distraction. Music Review: Jordi Savall Brings Hesp?rion XXI to the Allen Room 2010-05-03T22:07:00Z

Inevitably, it will give more ammunition to Wagnerites and critics who view Mr. Lepage’s sophisticated electronics as a distraction from the drama and the music. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z

We're receiving lots of important information, but much of it is drowning in distraction, which of course is what your documentary series addresses. "There's no agreement on facts": Alex Gibney's look at Russian interference shows America's weakness 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

As lockdown meant shutting down most of our cultural attractions and distractions, graphic novels stepped up with vicarious thrills. 2020 graphic novels and comic books: Five trends that defined the year 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

“I always tell my actors to make sure there are no distractions behind them, like a refrigerator door or a dying plant,” she says. How to Use Zoom Like a Theater or Film Professional 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hamilton kept on riding, grinding his teeth as a distraction. Books of The Times: ‘The Secret Race’ by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle 2012-09-11T21:17:09Z

Mr. Thompson, who is in his 40s, is made to do that here, and it’s a distraction; until his well-toned arms become visible, it’s easy to believe he is the aged, frail Armstrong. Theater Review: ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-10-17T21:47:00Z

In one scene a small-town sheriff is heard muttering about this newfangled contraption called a Walkman, which points down a “slippery slope” of juvenile distraction. | 'Super 8': Hey, Guys, Let?s Make a Monster Flick 2011-06-09T15:28:58Z

You spend all your time looking at his get-up and he's a total distraction from the subject. Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation 2013-06-15T16:45:00Z

Once you feel emotionally reconnected, approach love-making not with any goal, but banish distractions and simply focus on pleasure, moment by moment. I’m 75 and have never had an orgasm – what should I do? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

The only misstep here is the insertion of short, murky ruminations on nameless characters; these seem an unnecessary distraction from a solid main story. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

With every major belligerent by 1916 in extremis, it was not just in eastern Europe and the Balkans that nationalist movements surfaced to exploit the distraction of the colonial power. A most terrible year 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

"It was a distraction to students and the learning environment," said Mitchell Tabaldo, site supervisor, who now gets three or four inquiries a month but few takers after producers hear the restrictions. Calif. schools seek Hollywood deals to raise cash 2010-07-10T22:01:00Z

The song choices, which collapse periods and are credited to the “Moulin Rouge!” music director Marius de Vries, are mostly distractions. Gary Rydstrom’s ‘Strange Magic,’ From a George Lucas Story 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Of course, a good portion of that consisted of snarky comments about Ms. Underwood’s acting abilities and about distractions like ambient noise in the studio and accompaniment that was too loud. A Network Is Buoyed by ‘Sound of Music’ Ratings 2013-12-09T22:36:58Z

First some distraction: idle talk of going “down to the weald” to talk to ironmasters. 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Henry Is All Heat, Fury and Menace 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

That leaves little distraction from the smooth-flowing mechanics of overconfident power, rising resentment and rigorous treachery, and from the text’s wealth of dazzling verse. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z

She quickly learned the art of distraction: "If I say something funny," Lebowitz says, recalling her thought process, "they won't notice I'm on the lowest branch of the tree." Fran Lebowitz funny in 'Public Speaking' doc 2011-11-03T19:57:04Z

Now, the restless can reach for their smartphones and browse until the sun rises or sleep descends, mesmerized by something that provides stimulation without strain, distraction without effort. Sleep-Tracking Apps Can Help You Make it Through the Night 2014-03-06T00:23:45Z

His lethargic bon mots provide a nice distraction from the generally tossed-off lyrics. This week's new singles 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Projected photographs of crowds and shapes were distractions. ‘Horizon Events,’ Inspired by the Parameters of a PS1 Gallery 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

No matter your definition, there are two keys to making any long flight seem short: comfort and distraction. Five Things to Bring on Every Long Flight 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The groom, 32, is a founder and the chief executive of Riveted Labs, a New York-based start-up focused on developing ways to lessen digital device distraction. Lisa Hill, Theodore Ellis 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Sadly, between the pandemic and other distractions, that didn't happen, especially in the US. Looking ahead: The top food and agriculture stories for 2021 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

“That can’t be taken away. Of course I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction.” Shane Gillis fired from "Saturday Night Live," robbing world of racist, homophobic originality 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Teachers think it’s a huge distraction, but it helps us.” Move aside, fidget spinners: The newest kid craze is a sticky substance called slime 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Perhaps a team could sign him and be hailed for its bravery; the ugly end to this story would be team shying away from Collins because they don’t want the distraction or risk disharmony. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

And Thursday night’s performance carried that air of distraction and that longing for calm. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Behind the scenes, Byrne’s emotionally chilly perfectionism drove his bandmates to distraction but on stage, and on screen, this is ecstasy. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

The shock of my only child’s sudden death 19 months earlier at age 6 had worn off, the distractions I’d used to keep the full horror at bay finally gone. Modern Love: Gifts for the Broken-Hearted 2010-10-15T21:20:00Z

I even find the battery indicator on my iPad to be a distraction while reading. Craig Taylor: my desktop 2013-06-12T07:00:00Z

Casting himself as Jeff’s passive-aggressive therapist is a bad move; his performance is droll but not droll enough to make his presence more than a distraction. ‘Fourth of July’ Review: Fraught Family Dynamics From Louis C.K. 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

But distractions only went so far: the term “doomscrolling” emerged to reflect the dark moments when time alone led us inexorably back to the news. Leave It in ‘Early Quar’? 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The current obsession over digital formats is a distraction. At the International Festival of Authors 2010-10-25T15:17:00Z

Michael McDonald, a supervising producer on “Cougar Town”on ABC, was polling the show’s writers about their relationships, partly as a distraction from work, partly as inspiration. A Sitcom Orbits Mars and Venus 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z

Beyond the inconsistency lies a strategy — chaos, distraction and contradiction serve the president well. Perspective | Trump’s tough talk on leaks is one thing. His actions tell another tale. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Diaz also helped build awareness among hip-hop stars for one of the signature event series of quarantine: the private Demon Time strip clubs, after-hours distractions for the well-connected. How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The action in her plays is often artificially ginned up, and ideas are then lacquered on as a high-minded distraction from the fakery. Scones and tea won't help Theresa Rebeck's 'Zealot' at SCR 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Desplechin coaxed, goaded, or pressed his actors toward an edge of recklessness that at times offered gratifying distractions from the merely functional images that recorded them. Everything That Is Suffocating About French Film, in One French Film 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Radio is just one of those competing distractions. BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw stumbles as it turns to age-old strategies 2013-05-19T17:00:01Z

They’re raised under the domineering eye of their father, who is set on his sons becoming cricket stars; anything else is, to him, a distraction. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Orville’ and ‘Selection Day’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was a strange yet welcome distraction, a way to keep my hands busy and my mind occupied. He was behaving differently. He had lost something. I was the only one who noticed. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Watering the plants, cultivating life, was a much-needed distraction from death. How was lockdown living with my partner? So good I missed her when she went to the balcony 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Wilhelm’s staff and ministers resorted to manipulation, distraction, and flattery to manage him. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Johnson certainly delights in creating puzzling distractions, but even if his film is as deep as a layer of onion skin, it is immensely engaging. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

It was a welcome distraction from the sometimes heated dance performances. In Transit: A 'Secret' Berlin Cabaret for the 21st Century 2011-02-23T11:00:11Z

Once Marpac recognized that people actually wanted a sonic distraction from this basic feature of modern life, they began marketing the device for improved sleep or concentration. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

These characters thrive on the taste of power it offers and the distraction from their own insecurities. My ex was charming but critical. Now I’ve lost all my confidence | Dear Mariella 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

The resourceful BFFs plan to bike to Fort Tilden but their efforts are met with setbacks, like trying to get an iced coffee, and distractions ranging from shopping sales to finding abandoned kittens. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Sorry for Your Loss,” then, is not exactly the sort of distraction the average person may seek out at the end of a long day, particularly any day built upon a sustained bombardment of stressors. “Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Venues that were once apolitical distractions became places for protest. Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Unintended moral: Create something really great, then run it into the ground but never stop braying about how brilliant it is, and a nation desperate for distraction will reward you for it. "Lost" finale's secret lessons 2010-05-24T09:10:00Z

That evening I dwelled on the seemingly simple lives of the monks: their faith, their warmth and their absence of 21st-century distractions. Journeys: Sichuan’s Tibetan Corner, Outside of Time 2012-12-28T16:29:25Z

It's an idea that's floated, then gone, more distraction than illumination. 'Blackout': A deep, dark-humored drinking memoir 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The 24/7 needs of a boutique inn, some of us figured, might have been a distraction. Review | Mirabelle, a gem in the making, loses some of its luster 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

If these chapters weren’t so carefully wrought and emotionally compelling, they might feel like mere distractions from the prosecution of Gloria’s attacker. Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

Cheryl Callan, chief marketing officer for Weight Watchers, said she suspected that what she called her competitors’ “parade” of celebrities is a method of distraction. Skin Deep: When Dieting Becomes a Role to Play 2011-08-02T22:12:55Z

The accommodations may have been gussied up with rain-forest showers, heated floors and soft linens, but you are decades removed from digital distractions, cast as the hero of your own Old West tale. Colorado's Ghost Town Deluxe: Dunton Hot Springs 2012-10-19T13:50:00Z

He’s not alone in this: many writers on distraction present it as an existential cataclysm. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Do you watch and tweet, or do you think it's a giant distraction? How Question Time got as big as The X Factor on Twitter 2010-11-19T15:46:00Z

But in times such as these, an awards broadcast can serve some purpose beyond distraction — even a show whose claim to fame is catching celebrities at their drunkest and loosest. Why the Golden Globes and host Ricky Gervais felt particularly pointless 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Brooks said the debate over her position as CEO of News International was now too much of a distraction for parent company News Corp. and she would concentrate on refuting allegations in the scandal. Embattled News Intl CEO Rebekah Brooks resigns 2011-07-15T11:47:08Z

This means deliberately reducing distractions and being more self-disciplined about our use of social media, which are increasingly urgent for the sake of our cognitive and mental health. The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

CNN’s Jake Tapper called the tweets “weapons of mass distraction” in a promotion for a segment about them on his Sunday program, “State of the Union.” Were Trump’s ‘Hamilton’ tweets ‘weapons of mass distraction’? 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

And given our current world, my hope is to offer some semblance of a healthy distraction that fuels one’s appreciation of history, culture and all the possibilities of engaging society before, during and after Covid.” Drinking in America, One Distinctive Cocktail at a Time 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Many people are too absorbed by the convenience and distraction of their phones to pay close attention to their surroundings. Secret to a Great Trip: Ditch the Devices 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

He chooses his words carefully and seems to focus best without the distraction of conversation, so our sessions were largely silent. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Yip, whether as a matter of choice or direction, plays Raffi throughout in a state of stunned distraction, rising at one point to anger. | 'Motherland': ?Motherland,? the Debut of Doris Yeung 2011-03-18T06:03:01Z

"We consider defacing public property at a cost to state taxpayers an unlawful act and a dangerous distraction for motorists," the department said in a statement. 'Jackass' star could face charges for SeaWorld sign prank 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The live performance seemed every bit as good, heard through the constant distractions of a live video installation by Ofri Cnaani. Review: Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words of Christ,’ by 2 String Quartets 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

So, now is the perfect time to take care of your hardest-working tools before that green leafy distraction hits. So, when was the last time you cleaned your gardening tools? 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

Back on my cushion, I struggled with distraction. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

In a passage about technology and distraction, Ivanka writes that her father “has no patience for … electronic gadgets.” Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Hunting for hidden meaning within the story and the pictures deepens the complexity of our relationship with the movie, but that's also a distraction from the simple enjoyment of its popcorn flick simplicity. From "Gladiator" to "Nope": How Jordan Peele maps our decline into spectacular denial 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

The mythology episodes obsessively circle Mulder and Scully’s quest to expose the Syndicate, while the MOTWs detail the cases they take on the side as distraction from the puzzle consuming their lives. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that her age in the role is never a distraction, depending on what your expectations are for swoony historical epics. Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s) 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

It seems such a small thing, but I think he understood her request for a favourite film as a distraction during difficult times. ‘Jake the dog helped me feel normal again’: readers on the pandemic’s acts of kindness 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Mostly, this is as an anesthetic to the ever-accelerating pace of change in nearly every aspect of our lives, to say nothing of proliferating distractions. An expressive slowness to Jacaranda, Sankai Juku performances 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

The actual star, Worthington, makes for an awkward hero, his barely suppressed native Australian accent a distraction and his manner decidedly low-key. This Man on a Ledge Is Pretty Wobbly 2012-01-26T13:30:38Z

“I’m so empty that I don’t have distractions. If somebody has substance or has developed something, I have the time for them.” Kim Fowley, Rock Producer and Svengali, Dies at 75 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Throwing herself in the direction of a boy who barely knows she's alive is a potent distraction from mourning her father's death. Mindy Kaling's smart teen sex romp "Never Have I Ever" may be her best series yet 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Paris fashion week started on quite a somber note, but  knows critics were cognizant of the old saying about show business — and ready for a little performative distraction. | Mugler Wins! 2011-03-04T02:45:13Z

Girls appreciate visual distraction while boys make do with sticking their heads in the bass cabinets at the front of the stage. Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z

In a statement, Hall said his continued presence at the gallery would be a “distraction to an institution I care deeply about.” Ex-BBC head quits gallery job amid Diana interview fallout 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

There are very few scenes of football here, only enough to get the flavor of the hits, the taste of blood, the price of the zone, the attraction of attention, the distraction of it, too. A Life in Football, From Glory to Pain 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

In Cannes, too, she demonstrates some of the same frank distraction at the post-screening post-midnight press conference; garrulous, almost guileless, in conversation. Jacqueline Bisset: 'Older women continue to want sex but men don't want to sleep with them' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

We are in era of solipsism, where listening is beside the point and a distraction from the main game: gathering followers, likes and comments. Review | Art’s sharpest social commentators since Andy Warhol reveal the state we’re all in 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Doodles and giggles: Some senators spend impeachment trial in distraction = I scanned phone, Googled at “presidential transgressions committed,” dismal! Style Invitational Week 1427: Rocky of ages, or Badenov for you? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

She quickened the pace of George and Lennie’s entrance to cut down on the distraction factor as well. James Franco latest Broadway newbie who is a Hollywood star 2014-04-17T19:08:49Z

But denial, distraction or suppression do not work for long — and the pain returns with a vengeance. How to deal with regret and forgive yourself for making imperfect decisions 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a plot driver of popular drama, this was unusually complicated, but it did bring colourful distractions. Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks: Aftermath; Inspector George Gently; Horizon 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

Mourning, I understood then, is a distraction from loss; after bodies are buried and ceremonies end there remains only an empty and relentless silence. Taryn Simon’s Varieties of Mourning 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

But to his critics, such outlandish schemes, reliant on as-yet-non-existent technologies, are unhelpful distractions from the more tedious work of cutting emissions and reducing our dependence on oil. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z

Mr. Powers reckoned that digital distraction costs American businesses about a trillion dollars in lost productivity each year. All That Logging in Makes Dropping Out Much More Difficult 2011-03-16T21:23:15Z

Depending on the size of the role and how much distraction there is. Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As in the best puppet theater, the performers who give voice to their characters and manipulate the puppets do so with such seamless grace that we absorb the story with minimal distraction. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

He Just Did What Came Naturally In the days before the Internet and other electronic distractions, many people of all ages played bridge. Bridge: Bob Mosher and the Mosher Over No-Trump Method 2010-04-25T22:07:00Z

Hicks's worldview – we are all energy; money and status are meaningless distractions; authenticity of feeling is paramount; embrace love, not fear – basically made him a hippy disguised as a punk. The adulation of Bill Hicks 2010-05-16T22:30:00Z

But in other ways Schamus has emphasized the character’s high-minded estrangement from campus distractions. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Rather than dealing with uncomfortable life problems, some people avoid them by absorbing themselves in other activities, leading to an unhelpful cycle where the distractions end up maintaining the problems because they're never confronted. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z

The impression made in this section of the show is of prolix distraction, with drawings of crucifixions, images of Picassoid satyrs, and oleaginous paintings that suggest food-processor versions of earlier things. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

Carol always puts her performance first and eliminates any distractions that might interfere with that priority. Ellie Kemper: What I Learned From the Cast of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

“The great part about this story is that my daughter said they talked the whole night without distractions and said it was a blast,” Emmons wrote. Teens headed to prom surprised with free meal after they agree to stay off their phones 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

In the century since March began, one series has emerged as the go-to distraction for the millions now sequestered in their living rooms: Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness. What happened after Netflix quarantine smash Tiger King ended? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

The elections in August offered Kenyans a temporary distraction from some of the challenges the country is facing. Kenya’s maize price has doubled in a year: 6 ways to avoid a staple food shortage 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Needless to say, the recording sessions provided a welcome distraction as well as an emotional outlet. Sober and single, Stones rocker Ron Wood goes solo 2010-09-27T20:23:00Z

Self-expression was seen as an unnecessary distraction to the serious business of functionalism. Design: Gio Ponti, Designer of a Thousand Talents 2011-06-19T18:00:05Z

How do we draw the line between attention and distraction? Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

At best — for those who beat the odds and find success — it devolves into a numbing distraction from personal disappointment. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vernon found plenty of distractions before settling in to work on “22, a Million.” The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

In a live performance, being kept in a room for several hours without any other distraction allows us to go deeper and to immerse ourselves totally in what the performers are doing. Why marathon productions are big among the YouTube generation 2013-05-25T07:00:31Z

Still others, weary of technology and its attendant distractions, are heading back to the land, or at least to a patch of it, in search of an alternative to our techno-dystopia. The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Given the distraction — and limited light — resulting from Cape Cod’s October power outage, I couldn’t stay with the otherwise brilliant William Maxwell novel I’d been reading. James Baldwin’s Review, Babe Ruth and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Worse, they might be a distraction – I'm thinking of the antics of the adventurers you see dumbed down on the telly. The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison ? review 2011-01-15T17:47:01Z

I realized in the big picture, distraction and information overload in general is a huge problem for everyone. Forget about “inbox zero”: The real problem with email isn’t your unread messages 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

To keep the work side light, look for any tolerable distraction close to home that helps pay bills, whether it’s temping or scanning inventory or folding towels. @Work Advice: She can go home again. But can she work there temporarily?

“It’s important to keep people interested in what you’re doing, because there’s so many distractions and so many different forms of entertainment that it’s really, really hard to keep people’s attention,” he says. To release or delay? Musicians with new albums search for the best decision during the covid-19 crisis. 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

There were no distractions and I could ask questions as we climbed. In Morocco, 44 hours of lingering in a small village leaves a big impression 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Drinks are just the vehicle to pull each other close, without the distraction of a meal or an activity, and really listen to the answer to "how are you doing?" How to make a perfect Air Mail cocktail at home — all you need are four ingredients 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z

In a statement revealing the style, Graham Williamson, the Adidas senior director of tennis, said, “We designed the apparel as to minimize distractions for the players,” but he was talking about the Adidas athletes themselves. At the French Open, Adidas Courts Controversy With Camouflage 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

The distraction impinges on her ability to grieve, an outcome Wasserman said is common when a death is followed by criminal proceedings or political firestorms. A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Yet that first Star Wars story presciently sensed a shift in the cultural barometer: that moviegoers were tiring of urban cynicism and ready for an enthralling, childlike distraction. Star Wars Celebrates 35th Anniversary of First Film 2012-05-25T15:24:05Z

Over the past few weeks, as I read Crawford’s solemn prescriptions for the elimination of distraction, it occurred to me that we might have everything backward. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Though this might sound like too much distraction and commotion, Levine and his team found the opposite to be true: Active work environments promote more productivity, less stress and less absenteeism. Could you skip your workout if you built more activity into your day? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Instead, he often chose to lay ballet bare as an art form largely defined by preparation, waiting, recovery, fatigue and distraction. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

Bullard, meanwhile, says the entire process is a distraction from the more effective goal of reinstating COOL. With their livelihoods under threat, livestock producers pin their hopes on labeling 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

The distractions along the Great Victorian Rail Trail are many, as the path runs through remarkable scenery: wetlands and farmland, over bridges and through valleys, past cows and Clydesdales and, yes, kangaroos. Cycling Along the Great Victorian Rail Trail 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Millennials experience special moments rarely without distraction. ’Pics or it did not happen' is their mantra,” according to a statement from the hotel per the Standard. Hotel chain now offering ‘Social Media Sitters’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

When I moved to Mazatlan it felt so healthy — there was fresh air, there was music, there were tons of distractions. Deborah Rodriguez: 'Kabul Beauty School' author turns to Mazatlan 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

These energetic and bite-sized distractions are silly and fun, good for a mental break before moving on to something meatier. HBO Max is here – but not for everyone! Here's how to watch, plus reviews of every original show 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Part of it, for me – and studies show this – is the world is engineered for distraction. The Internet is scrambling our brains: We spend more time online than sleeping — and here’s how it’s messing us up 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t quite bliss, but I did attain something conspicuously rare in a life otherwise filled with such perpetual distraction: peace. ‘No sex please, we’re meditating’: peace and positivity on a weekend retreat 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

As soon as you start to grab your iPhone or your phone, assuming that people all have iPhones, it's a place for so many distractions. How chef Andy Baraghani makes his delicious recipes with a few tools and no dishwasher 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

If you do watch TV in the evenings, the sleep coach Katie Fischer suggests comedy shows as “a helpful distraction from anxious thoughts”. Regulate your breathing – and four other ways to sleep when you're anxious 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

I've avoided the distraction of trying to develop that sort of presence. Jed Mercurio: My desktop 2013-05-29T08:00:01Z

Are these and other current milestones in a long career a help or a distraction to an artist’s perspective? Anne-Sophie Mutter: ‘I’m a work in progress’ 2013-03-01T00:50:19Z

Perhaps its creators thought it would have been a distraction from the more charged experience being offered. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The loving way uses more distraction and less lecturing. What to do when two clingy kids won’t give Mom some space? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

From opening titles presented in the style of a classic Hollywood film during the overture, Mr. Strassberger and his team provide a near-ceaseless barrage of sight gags, amusing diversions and outright distractions. Music Review: ‘Le Roi Malgré Lui’ at Fisher Center for the Performing Arts 2012-07-30T21:52:59Z

The first source of distraction was the capacity audience filled with cellphone-toting relatives. Review: New York Youth Symphony and the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields Perform 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

This is a perfect recipe to put your energy into when you need a distraction. You can bake this classic banana bread with ingredients from your pantry, and substitutions are easy 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

It’s also great for us, because honestly, we need a distraction from the onslaught of stress-inducing news about politics, climate change and other disasters. America has a collective weakness, and his name is Brad Pitt 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

There isn’t always a villain, and looking for one can be a distraction. My mum is having an affair and has left. Now she won’t talk to us | Dear Mariella 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Unlike “Album,” which was largely speedy and focused, “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” is full of distractions and digressions. Music Review: Girls at the Bowery Ballroom - Review 2011-09-23T23:01:27Z

Some dismiss custom-built bikes like the ones in “Bespoke” as frivolous distractions from the serious business of establishing bicycles as alternatives to cars. Design: New York Museum Showcases Custom-Made Bicycles 2010-05-09T19:00:00Z

Whether on their own or at Stiller’s direction, both Arquette and Lange adopt exaggerated, “Fargo”-style accents that are a major distraction. Review: A Sensational Prison Escape, Without the Sensation 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the point of that demonstration is that a hoodie doesn’t really define a person–in the bigger picture, it’s superficial and a distraction. Geraldo Rivera Opens Hoodie, Inserts Foot in Mouth 2012-03-23T18:02:18Z

Garbo not only had the honor of revealing the D-Day Normandy invasion to Germany but also of arguing persuasively that Normandy was just a distraction. Books of The Times: ‘Double Cross’ and ‘Agent Garbo’ 2012-08-08T22:28:33Z

With such a plethora of digital distractions coming at us from all angles, here are 8 tips to ensure your relationship doesn’t fall victim to social media. 8 ways to have a relationship in the digital age without going insane 2014-04-24T12:00:00Z

We've blocked certain websites, but she always manages to find another distraction. Perspective | My third-grader gets distracted during online classes. How can I help? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

In this sense, books are a very particular and important distraction. Literary London on your iPhone 2010-03-23T09:03:00Z

For them you were worse than a distraction, because every grape you picked for room and board was one less for them. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Sybil’s almost-love story is a good distraction, but the news of Matthew/William’s disappearance casts a dark shadow over the rest of the episode, and the entire house is on edge and ready to explode. Downton Abbey Watch: Missing In Action 2012-01-23T14:00:44Z

Many societies formed before and after the second world war, when fewer women juggled careers with families, life was slower-paced, distractions fewer and interests simpler. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

It's a place removed from the stresses and distractions of the real world, where staff members and campers alike discover a new kind of independence and responsibility. Motherlode Blog: What Parents Don't Get About Camp 2012-08-18T00:04:57Z

On reflection, I had simply replaced drinking with other distractions. ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

On one level, the scientists v idiots debate is a mere distraction, one destined to be overtaken by events, but in the meantime it demeans us all. Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy 2011-01-25T08:00:10Z

Remove distractions, including their phones, when they are doing homework, she suggests. How to cut back on screen time after a summer vacation of soft rules 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The answer, Allen said in an earlier interview, is pure distraction from sitting at home pondering, “Gee, life is meaningless. We’re all going to die.” Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Woodley also urged her supporters to pay more attention to the rights of indigenous peoples, saying society is “allowing Native American voices to be swallowed by the white noise of distraction.” Shailene Woodley explains her North Dakota oil pipeline protest 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Sleep comes hard in a ward full of angst-ridden people, but there’s camaraderie and always a distraction, a hollow laugh and gory story. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

I was working as a newspaper journalist and finding my growing online life a distraction. Before the internet broke my attention span I read books compulsively. Now, it takes willpower | Josephine Tovey 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

A rager in every way: this Oregon roots-punk jumble practically dismantled the small basement in which it was playing, a distraction from the fact that, beneath the bluster, it’s a band of deep technical gifts. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

I avoided my phone and computer, and arrogantly decided everyone else was merely living a devastating life of distraction. Mommy, can you put down your iPhone? 2013-01-26T21:00:00Z

When Garvey steps in front of the lights, Liberty is by his side and proves to be only a slight distraction, with the “Awww”s from the seats more than making up for any restlessness. For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Adjaye said in his statement that he did not want the allegations to “become a distraction” to those projects. Cultural World Reassesses Ties to David Adjaye After Misconduct Allegations 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

The White House announced that the Trumps would not attend nor host a reception "to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction." Trump’s absence at Washington’s premier social event is a relief for some. But the prestige of the presidency is missed. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

My only distractions from this cheerful scene were several birds of prey — eagles, black kites, and kestrels — soaring above the majestic clifftops. In Portugal’s mountains, an ecotourist haven rises from abandoned stone villages 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

All this misalignment might be a lovely distraction, except there is a price to be paid. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Viewed now, the film’s resourceful, even ingenious solutions to problems double as distractions; as those diminish, some of what is potent about the movie may also subside. ‘In the Earth’ Review: Grassroots Horror 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

The whole t-shirt angle with one saying "Artist" and the other "Contestant" felt cheesy and quickly became an irritating distraction. "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z

But the setting, remote and uncitified, offers fewer distractions, at least when the waters are calm. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z

It threatens to dwarf a dancer and drown her in distractions as people pass by or, deciding to stop, look for somewhere to sit. Review: Indian Dance Amid a Luxury Store Backdrop 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But that message was also Mr. Cohen’s way of keeping distractions at bay while he worked. For Leonard Cohen, the End Came With a Fall in the Night 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

In other ways, it is a real distraction. An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

But it serves less as a distraction than as a gateway, opening up a room full of beauties and curiosities, along with some puzzles. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

This book’s already-sketchy portrait of the Smiths’ marriage would have been weakened by such a major distraction. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z

When she saw friends posting those intriguing squares on Facebook, she went digging, and found the game to be a welcome distraction. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Perhaps as your loss inevitably dims and daily life becomes a distraction rather than an endurance, your fellow humans will regain your favour and be bathed in a more positive light. Our young son died suddenly. It’s hard to cope with people’s reactions | Mariella Frostrup 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Friends gather at bars with no external distractions and little chance of making plans with other people on the fly. Are My Friends Really My Friends? 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Yet he felt that his hearing problems gave him a career advantage: They made it easier for the inventor to concentrate on his work without aural distractions. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

Even as Trump bedazzles the news media, he blames it — one of his favorite ploys, along with distraction and dissembling. Perspective | Mixing troubling policy and loony distraction, Trump tries to get away with media madness 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

On one side you have Trump, an incumbent skilled at manipulating the media and creating an obfuscating cloud of distraction and rage that has floated around him from the moment he was sworn in. “The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” gives insight into the "life method" of our next president 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

At first, it seemed like it was a distraction. Quentin Tarantino wants to 'go further' with his anti-police violence protests 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Audiences caught up in intense emotions will not tolerate the distraction of depression overload caused by sloppy staging, singing or conducting. Janacek opera in Vienna depressingly enjoyable 2011-06-18T11:27:10Z

While we wait for the talent to arrive, there are a few distractions to keep us entertained... Cannes diary 2010-05-13T14:06:00Z

The videos we saw were more a distraction than an enhancement, although these, like the cars, are changed regularly. Among the Masters at the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museums 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

There are enough distractions without setting new ones in my workspace. Evie Wyld: My desktop 2013-05-07T16:31:00Z

Study spaces should be free of cellphones and other unnecessary digital distractions. Motherlode Blog: Avoiding the Midwinter ‘Back to School’ Slump 2014-01-02T15:31:51Z

In support, Jean-Marc Barr provides a lively, welcome distraction to the mostly somber couple as a man who embraces life and even a little danger. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

But presumably such thoughts won’t occur to the young children who are the targets of this show, or, if they do, some nearby grown-up will banish them by producing a cookie or some other distraction. Television Review: ‘Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale,’ on Nickelodeon 2012-12-13T23:14:12Z

These are unfortunate distractions from a witty and often disturbing book. Review | We know about E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation. How is the rest of her book? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

In today's quick-morphing digital culture, the Groundlings remains relevant as an analog iconoclast of sorts, sidestepping the plethora of peripheral entertainment opportunities and digital distractions. The Groundlings: improving improv in L.A. for 40 years 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

A fable about money, commitment and the difficulty of behaving decently in a world defined by Darwinian competition and consumerist distraction, the film is simple, suspenseful and shattering. 8 Cannes Film Festival Prizewinners We Love (and 3 We Don’t) 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

I sat and watched for hours that morning, and it dawned on me that I was completely alone before this masterpiece, without even the whisper of another human voice or distraction. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

And it’s a distraction that can be stretched long past a play’s typical running time, with as many intermissions as you like. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Eventually, though, the show runs out of distractions. Review: In a Gender-Flipped Revival, ‘Company’ Loves Misery 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

I want a mandoline that never, ever slices your hand open, however staggeringly stupid you happen to be, because it turns out that life in the 21st century is seriously complicated with lots of distractions. My wishlist for really useful kitchen gadgets 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Removed from the distraction and stimulation of normal life, these talents are amplified, and Lil Wayne’s ability to amuse himself in the face of crushing tedium becomes transfixing. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The only rough sounds during the evening were the noisy rustlings as myriad listeners simultaneously turned pages of the libretto, a distraction that seemed to disrupt the performer’s intended flow. Review: Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ With Christian Gerhaher 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

In many ways, I think his anger, and the pain at the root of his anger, just gets sublimated into his distractions of choice—television, alcohol, nostalgia. Emma Cline on Anger and Nostalgia 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Do you find it difficult to tune out distractions and sink into a book? Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

There, almost as a distraction, he painted his first still-lifes of flowers from English gardens, some lovely examples of which are displayed in the next section of the exhibition. A Maverick Master, Revisited 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The last section consisted of photo prints of cityscapes, the lights of Los Angeles or the landscape of Las Vegas, with their depressing come-ons of distraction. Fashion Review: Balenciaga, Balmain, Rick Owens, Mugler, Rochas, Van Noten: Paris Fashion Review 2011-09-29T23:21:01Z

Saint Laurent basics, in other words, cut with a contemporary ease by a designer at ease with the weight of his inheritance, and with no pointless distraction. Dior and Saint Laurent Face the Future 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

One Paper Towns producer tells me later that these are ideal interview conditions, as Delevingne has so much “crazy energy” that’s it’s good to catch her with a few distractions. How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Other distractions haven’t been studied as much, but creating that pleasurable feeling in other ways is likely to do the same thing.” Fitness: Workout Distractions: Good or Bad? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

“No,” he said with a sigh, because there were too many other distractions for his parishioners there. A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to his old haunts decades later 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Later, “The Sound of Music” proves a much-needed distraction from a leathery piece of trout on a creamy barley risotto that deserves better. Review | At the Greenbrier, ‘everything is possible’ — except a great dinner 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

A third figure often hovers around duets, suggesting three’s a crowd but doing nothing to justify the distraction. Dance Review: Misnomer Dance Theater at Joyce SoHo 2011-12-12T23:21:34Z

Mr. Smith warned about a philosophy of “complication distraction.” Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: The Triumph of Unnecessary Beauty 2011-03-23T15:28:24Z

So we escape to a different location full of different distractions, which fade into the white noise of productivity: steamed milk churning, strangers’ murmurs, ambient music. Did you buy that latte 2 hours ago? Think about leaving the coffee shop. 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The power of protest is not a distraction from government, but vital to its essential function, containing its power, chastening it, humbling its administrators. Perspective | How the Park Service plans to help Trump keep protesters off his lawn 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

If normal means “not driven to psychotic distraction” by Bizkits, limp or otherwise. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

I get your point, though: Theater, done right, asks a lot of you, which is one reason we typically leave the distractions of home to experience it. Love Theater? Jesse Green Recommends Streaming Options 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a website that temporarily blocks you from going to other sites that are distractions. 4 Productivity Hacks That Will Help You Focus at Work 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

He presents classics in the altogether, without the distractions of fancy clothing or often, it seems, an outer skin. Ivo van Hove Brings ‘Angels in America’ to BAM 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Everything is distraction, selling clothes and cars and all that. Van Morrison: 'Singing is my profession – there is no plan B' 2012-10-01T13:58:00Z

The project was given momentum by the fact that its launch coincided with Newman being made redundant: as he put it Tw1tterband became "a distraction from the woe". Meet Tw1tterband 2011-03-02T15:23:51Z

When he writes fiction, every sentence is a special sort of agony, he told me, and while the welter of distractions on the Internet is a liability to many authors, Twitter settles him. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

WS Gilbert Gilbert's lyrics are sometimes clever and inventive, they have energy and charm, and they bore me to distraction – literally. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z

They are going to have to make some choices about what’s really important and what is pure distraction. Perspective | Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

But the link was indirect, apparently explained by greater distraction by emotions, positive emotions feeling more intrusive, and a lower ability to savour good moments. Trying to be happy could make you miserable, study finds 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

But all of the dazzling distractions couldn't disguise Spears' near-robotic performance. Britney Spears and her dazzling distractions 2011-07-09T14:32:00Z

A sense of what we’re doing to the planet accompanies me all the time, but mostly as a distraction, a morbid static in the air. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

A mystery in the air is a nice distraction from the mess on the ground, and Americans have long been obsessed with the aerial unknown. There’s a ton of crap in the sky we haven’t shot down (yet) 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The recording, taken from a concert performance in Berlin last November, has plenty of vivid detail, but some occasional distractions, too. Wagner: Das Rheingold – review 2013-05-30T20:40:01Z

Evidence aside, Schumer wins the support of the judge and jury with distractions like cake and free sweaters. Watch Amy Schumer's Defend Bill Cosby in the Court of Public Opinion 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The problem gets stated and the answer given is usually a distraction, so the topic goes off the rails. Carolyn Hax: If he’ll ditch you for first class, bump him from your life 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

This is a movie with heart but too many distractions. 'Blue Like Jazz': Trading faith for theatrics at Portland college 2012-04-12T20:09:07Z

And if they call for more comic distraction than honest emotion? Books of The Times: Carl Hiaasen’s ‘Bad Monkey’ Features a Cast of Oddballs 2013-06-17T20:34:20Z

The track edges toward funk, and the women sing, but Prince doesn’t; he simply talks, deadpan, about information overload, high-tech distractions, privilege, fame and culture, asking, “Think today’s music will last?” Prince Made ‘Welcome 2 America’ in 2010. It Speaks to 2021. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mend can also be a distraction from doing what you shouldn’t do: look up your former partner’s social media updates. Don't text your ex: inside the booming industry of 'breakup experts' 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The work is both a distraction from the construction and a meta commentary on it. Beverly Center as art gallery? How some big-name artists are behind those construction barricades 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

The need for entertainment and distraction is constant. | Fashion Review: After the Pressure, the Smoke 2011-03-09T00:49:32Z

And this time it was entirely appropriate, not at all a distraction. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z

That can also seem true of our semi-accidental online excursions, but the rabbit hole as metaphor for distraction is not a purely negative thing. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Only a day before, Fox brass had issued a statement lightly rebuking Hannity and his colleague Jeanine Pirro for what it — too tepidly — called the distraction of their appearing on the rally stage. Perspective | After Hannity’s travesty, Fox News redeems itself (just a tad) with a bold election night decision 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

To focus on the German text, she tuned out distractions in other languages, including “Squid Game,” the popular South Korean drama. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

As a grand distraction, Garrick threw a fabulous party in the middle of England to canonize a new English saint, William Shakespeare. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Obama officials say the last time they went on war footing with Fox News was a huge distraction that they want to avoid again. ‘Fox & Friends’ Finds Ratings and Controversy 2012-06-20T21:51:47Z

And Fly feels driven to distraction by her siblings: all 327 of them. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:32:27Z

In San Quentin State Prison, just north of San Francisco, the basketball team offers inmates both purpose and distraction, a chance to win in lives not characterized by victories. ‘Q Ball’ Review: Shooting Hoops While Doing Time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

But it succeeds in elevating the best in the talent resurrecting a piece of it, proving that with enough time, even the gruesome displays of humanity can be rendered into ethereal distractions. Ted Bundy, "I Am the Night" and our secret obsession with psychos 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

World crisis might be a nice distraction from suddenly complicated family life. Crib Sheet: Ten Discussion Points for the Weekend 2010-06-17T00:53:00Z

Now, without distractions — or, equally important, without the threat of distractions — I grew deeply immersed. Future Tense: A Digital Detox Test: Unplug Twitter and Facebook. Put Off Email and Smartphone. 2014-02-07T21:43:43Z

And which ones are more of a distraction than an asset? Child's play: the best young actors on the small screen 2011-03-04T10:34:43Z

The high number of playing fields, canoes and kayaks called for in the plan seemed to reflect a body-obsessed culture in a constant search for distractions. Architecture Review | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Brooklyn Bridge Park Opens First Phase of Large Project 2010-04-01T22:47:00Z

Asked whether his contribution was a distraction or a mistake, she responded: "He's a unique guy and he did a unique thing last night." Celebs and pols: When the star alliance misfires 2012-08-31T22:26:08Z

“No one wants the distraction of a negative story,” Tynan says. ‘We lost five women’: Porn industry reckons with assault allegations and a string of deaths 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

If the rise of distraction is caused by technology, then technology might reverse it, while if the spiritual theory is true then distraction is here to stay. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, Brynn realized that dipping strawberries into chocolate and wrapping lollipops provided a powerful distraction from tragedy. This tween has a sweet job: Working in the family chocolate shop 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Time will tell whether this gal is a distraction or enhancement to your son’s academic career. Social Q?s: Exotic Tastes, Topics and Guests - Social Q?s 2011-11-17T22:47:12Z

Mixes are less dense and more spacious, allowing fewer distractions from melodies and hooks. TV on the Radio Releases a New Album 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

"I want our customers to be able to shop without distractions and just focus on the designs in front of them." | MenInCities.com 2012-11-16T21:03:59Z

Rice’s name wasn’t mentioned in the second half of the pre-game show, and the situation was only mentioned obliquely, almost always in the context of how big a distraction it would prove for the Ravens. CBS Does What Goodell Wishes He Could: Make the Ray Rice Saga Go Away 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

His preschool teachers removed their own wall calendar because it was too much of a distraction for him and he wasn’t paying attention to classroom instructions. How I embrace my son’s language of numbers 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

All told, it was a pretty boring distraction from what some are hailing as her finest record to date. Top 10 Seattle music events for fall 2019, from Lana Del Rey to The Who 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

"We do not recommend any lights. At a minimum they are a distraction to you and other drivers," said Richard Reina, a product training director at CARiD.com. Christmas car decorations: What you need to know to be stylish and safe 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s the one about how he shot a moose, and it’s a welcome distraction. Dance Review: ‘Devouring Devouring’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2012-12-16T19:57:04Z

The kid’s tip of the week is to use distraction with those primary grade age boys to get them off of annoying repetition or other off track behaviors.  Lake Chelan summer lake trout action still going strong 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Mindfulness is one of the tools that can help people focus in a world full of distractions. Mindful sex: could it put an end to unhappiness in bed? 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Both opened above expectations, capitalizing on East Coast audiences looking for distraction amid the recovery from the storm. Not wrecked by Sandy, 'Ralph' tops box office 2012-11-05T14:10:31Z

The sets and costumes didn’t exactly hang together, but they weren’t a distraction, either, and brisk pacing and a few standout comic performances carried the evening. Outdoor shows: ‘The Tempest,’ ‘Midsummer’ and more 2013-07-16T20:31:29Z

It's hard not to be a passive audience member, because everything is so far away, and there are distractions. Festivals guide 2012: star tips 2012-05-25T23:10:00Z

We live in a world where there are an excessive number of distractions and people often seem to expect instant gratification. I’m 35 and I love gardening. Deal with it 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Minimalism’s rewards are more money, more generosity, more freedom, less stress, less distraction, less environmental impact, higher-quality belongings and more contentment, as Becker reels off in a series of bullet points. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

It was also good for a distraction from the fact that Moffat was another tight-lipped panelist – though who could blame him when questions asked for complete plot points? Can Doctor Who's Steven Moffat keep schtum? What we learned at the TCAs 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

The publication of “Honeydew” is a welcome distraction for Ms. Pearlman and something of a cruel twist. Edith Pearlman’s New Book Is ‘Honeydew’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

It slipped by, divided not into hours but into distractions: Teenagers stayed in their beds, watching Hulu on their laptops. Hope, worry and boredom mingle in a Houston shelter as a deadline looms 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Being singular, he says, is the only way artists can distinguish themselves in a world full of distractions, so there’s no room to tread lightly. Nicolas Winding Refn Dissects His Bloody Confection 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

These are minor, if often annoying, distractions from a story line that is deadly earnest. Joel Dicker’s ‘Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair’: High emotion in much-hyped thriller

Salter's language, and his sense of character is masterful: the only distraction I found from the narrative was a sense of awe at the ease with which his technique appears to operate. Tips, links and suggestions: Tell us about the books you are reading today 2013-01-08T15:28:03Z

Just a few days without digital distractions, and to remember that I was not, in fact, merely the sum of my posts and tweets and filter-enhanced iPhone photos. Going Off the Grid on a Swedish Island 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, as he sings and dances, he forgets about the world's other distractions, both good and bad. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z

If that is a coherent politics, it is animated by West’s longstanding sense of grievance that he is misunderstood, but it was ultimately a distraction from the album’s intended tribute. Kanye West’s ‘Donda’ Era, on a Chaotic Stage 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

It is better to stay busy and hope for brief moments of distraction when the pain may disappear for a moment or two. My slide back to OxyContin 2012-07-17T01:00:00Z

“It’s creating silly distractions from real issues. Get a grip people” 'Get a grip': Jennifer Lawrence offended over plunging dress furor 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

They evoke nothing but the low buzz of distraction from the invisible threat surrounding us. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

But it was a distraction in the feature world, where Cohen would spend half a pitch meeting answering questions about faith. Etan Cohen, director of 'Get Hard,' is used to confounding expectations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

And inconsistencies in memorization — you can see some actors’ eyes wander to strategically placed scripts — prove occasional distractions. Review | ‘City in Transition’ is an exhilarating journey across Washington through the eyes of Black artists 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Is farce, perhaps, not just a distraction from unhappy times, but also a reflection of how it feels to be caught up in them? Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z

The museum provided several hours of distraction, plus a crucial vantage point: I could see the ship from the sculpture garden and make sure it wasn’t leaving without me. On a Baltic Sea cruise, board in Sweden and wake up in Latvia — then do it in reverse 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

When “Falling Down” was announced, in August, it quickly became a flash point and a distraction, and a source of dissent within the group of people responsible for shepherding Peep’s estate. Lil Peep Died Before Becoming Pop Royalty. His New Music May Change That. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Whatever the case, the heels are just silly and a distraction given that they’re nowhere near as insulting as the rest of her. Review: In ‘Jurassic World,’ the Franchise Feeds the Beast 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

"We all recognize that it is a distraction and takes the focus away from a lot of the good things that are taking place," Hardy said. Scholars call for U. of I. president's ouster 2012-02-29T04:36:00Z

Of course, there’s more to the video than just the face, and distractions aplenty on the screen. Therapy under lockdown: 'I’m just as terrified as my patients are' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But Adams tells us that we fly not through action but through distraction. How I Solved It: New York or Lahore? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become costly distractions, and the men and women who fight them often return to an isolated realm of PTSD, wrecked bodies and ruined families. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The “Kaleidoscope” creator and showrunner Eric Garcia recalled a tricky prison scene, in which the inmates are fed a meal that contains magic mushrooms to create a distraction for a potential escape. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

There was even something therapeutic about walking in treacherous weather: my mind emptied of all distraction. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

Though Lil Wayne clearly doesn't need the money, he can certainly use the distraction. Lil Wayne on suicide watch ... for fellow prisoners 2010-04-08T10:18:00Z

Yet the dancing was a distraction, rather than a complement. Urban Bush Women, with energy to burn 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

“While groups can be profitable, they can be a distraction for other guests and require more staff attention,” says Amy Kerr, a resort spokeswoman. Perspective | When you want to get away from it all, but you can’t get away from other travelers 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

I watched the show in the weeks following my dad’s death as a distraction from my grief. ‘Space Jam,’ My Dad and Me 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

“In my own way, I deconstruct it, getting rid of the noise, the distraction as you look at forms,” she says. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

There were no distractions on a ship, in particular no telephones. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

There’s always the distraction of a potato that needs peeling, or a stew to be stirred. Debbie Tucker Green's ‘Generations’ at Soho Rep 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

The palace said a complaint would be a distraction from Harry's deployment in Afghanistan, where he is serving as a helicopter pilot, and it "would not be prudent to pursue the matter further." Palace won't complain over naked Harry photos 2012-09-28T11:50:16Z

"It's partly lost to distraction," referring to the intricate plotting that requires careful attention from the viewer. The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

And yet here we were, armed with diaper bags, distractions galore — and our 2-year-old sons. What happens when food writers bring their toddlers to fancy restaurants 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Empty discussions with friends, acquaintances and teachers seem inserted for mere distraction. Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Not a few of the characters are driven to distraction by the swampy Florida heat and their own lust, and the movie itself seems to share their state of sweaty agitation. Movie Review: ‘The Paperboy,’ by Lee Daniels, Stars Nicole Kidman 2012-10-04T12:00:00Z

Sneakers neither sulk nor celebrate; they redirect their attention to distractions that entertain and titillate. Modern Love: Good Enough? That’s Great 2014-01-31T21:20:45Z

In failing to check these lies and cycling through useless debates over whether a racist tweet definitely proves Trump is a racist, media organizations fell into the distraction trap and failed to serve the public. The media's "Made in America" problem: Trump creates racist controversy, gets free campaign coverage 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a game that suits the pandemic attention span: a quick reprieve between meetings, a distraction while the governor announces new restrictions, a balm in weeklong election-news cycles. The Video Games That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Starlin doesn’t want it to be a distraction for he or the team. Prosecutors: No charges for Starlin Castro 2012-04-21T01:04:00Z

The results here prove, by turns, entertaining commentary, frivolous distractions and profound revelation. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

Women are also encouraged to create therapeutic playlists as a distraction technique, while craft and baking sessions – occupying hands – are also often helpful. Is perinatal anxiety a bigger problem than postnatal depression? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The president, he said, certainly knows the power of a good distraction. Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Meryl Streep uses the distraction to leak the Andrea Arnold cut while listening to Roy Orbison at top volume. Screaming? Crying? Confessing? How will Big Little Lies end? 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

It's too early to tell if this is a genius way to acquaint Apple's massive user base with a new U2 album, or a distraction for an enormously popular band trying to reassert its relevance. U2 announces new album -- and it's already in your iTunes 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

At worst, the nontraditional elements scan as crutches or distractions. Yrsa Daley-Ward Breaks Out of the “Instapoetry” Pack with Her Memoir “The Terrible” 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Virtual backdrops, usually a distraction in their raggedness, are used here as a deliberate aesthetic, allowing the trolls to occupy one space, dissolve into semitransparency and get eaten away at their edges. ‘Russian Troll Farm’ Review: Clock In, Undermine Democracy, Clock Out 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Until recently, the debate over "digital distraction" has been one of vested interests: authors nostalgic for the days of quiet book-reading have bemoaned it, while technology zealots have dismissed it. SXSW 2011: The internet is over 2011-03-15T08:00:03Z

Still, for all our expertise, distraction retains an aura of mystery. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

I don’t love doing anything else; on a personal level, I don’t have any hobbies or distractions of my own. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z

Again, I was looking for distraction; again, I was floored by grief. ‘Space Jam,’ My Dad and Me 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

For a more, er, lively distraction, try a short hike up the nearby Kaaterskill Falls. Dance at Mount Tremper, Saratoga and Jacob?s Pillow 2010-07-15T21:59:00Z

At first the video seems like a distraction, but it turns out to be awfully close to the heart of the play. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Focusing on this fleeting awkwardness was trivial, of course, a distraction. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z

Mr. Dwyer still seemed in a good state here, playing the Suite No. 5 in C minor, despite the distractions of espresso makers and clattering dishes. ‘A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

As other Twitter users chimed in with comments, I became entangled in one of those microscopically petty distractions of the Internet age: the social media mention chain you didn’t ask to be a part of. Perspective | I am a theater critic in New York. Not a hair salon in Dublin. Let me explain. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The opening work, the Prelude to Act I of Wagner’s “Meistersinger,” suffered particularly from the distractions, as picnickers got settled and loud conversations ensued. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in Central Park 2012-07-17T23:05:18Z

I found the orange remedy a kind of pleasant exercise, a fun distraction. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Focus on how your food smells, looks and tastes without distractions. Perspective | Nine positive food messages to send yourself over the holidays 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Without the distractions of looks, race, or socioeconomic status, could one be open enough to find a soulmate? From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

When the series debuted in July 2020, many viewers and critics found the drama at The Pynk to be a welcome distraction from a summer marred by pandemic and images of racial injustice. ‘P-Valley’: How Katori Hall Made a Progressive Show About Strippers 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

I removed all distractions: no coffee, phone or friend. For a newbie driver, the RV was her classroom and her subject matter 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It helped prevent online spoilers; it certainly removed the distractions of waving screens. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

That doesn't mean reality TV is a positive distraction. Bad behavior on reality TV is tested path to fame 2013-06-04T18:38:08Z

“If people are distracted at work on their phones, I want to be their distraction,” Ms. Wakeman said. Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The assembled talent was no joke, though, and the tiresome comic shtick was an unnecessary distraction. Review: ‘Pompie’s Place,’ a Blues Club in a Time Warp 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

And the legend is that Robert Redford appeared maybe once for a few minutes but realized that he would just be too much of a distraction. The Post’s Marty Weil remembers when moving buildings was a snap 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Others are finding their own distractions, like making ice cream, or practicing yoga. ‘The Universe Hit Pause’: The Ripple Effects of Broadway’s Shutdown 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Chalk this last shift up to an art marketplace that has more players, options and distractions than ever. Out With the Old, and in With La Biennale Paris 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

There are plenty of opportunities watch films without any distractions. Is edible cinema a tasty new way to enjoy films? 2012-05-17T10:22:01Z

It was a lot of distractions, to be honest with you. Chris Wilson's master plan transformed his life after prison. He insists he's "not an anomaly" 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

This dark, thoughtful thriller will provide plenty of distraction right now. Ten books to read in April 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

A review of “Turandot” in the Financial Times in May made note of the myriad distractions, like flash photography and the static of the security guards’ walkie-talkies. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z

There are already so many digital distractions in our lives and for me, reading on a screen and getting alerts and text messages totally ruins it. Krysten Ritter: By the Book 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

After “The Experience,” with the rift safely sealed, you can consume without the distractions of a plot — which is when “Stranger Things: The Experience” achieves its final and ideal form. Immersed in ‘Stranger Things,’ Then Strolling to Beckett 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Crawford ends up seeing pretty much all of modern life as a source of distraction. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

If anything, the collision of sounds is a distraction from the fact that “1000 gecs” is, at its core, an astonishingly sweet album. The Riotous, Internet-Speed Sound of 100 gecs 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

In Tehran, Housden finds an artistic community energized both by opposition to the regime and by distance from materialistic distractions. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z

Romney spokesman Andrea Saul described the Obama campaign complaint as a “sideshow” and a distraction from the issues important to voters.  Obama's federal tax burden drops 2012-04-13T16:14:00Z

Since she’s just been jumping on the couch in her strappy shoes, it sounds like the histrionics of a woman who’s simply bored to distraction by her job at the mall. | 'Bachelorette': Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland?s Comedy 2010-07-27T02:04:00Z

Moreau is a misunderstood genius, of course: Lesser beings simply lack the vision to evolve and the will to rise above petty human distractions like pain. ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic

Digital 3-D usually is an unnecessary distraction not worth the extra admission price. Review: Lee's 'Life of Pi' is inspiring 3-D art 2012-11-19T15:14:09Z

In other words, is it possible that the suit is a distraction or a diversion, rather than the ultimate aspiration? Feminism’s next big step 2012-08-23T13:28:00Z

A video chat allows two people to pay attention to one another without the usual distractions at a bar or restaurant: a television blaring overhead, or a bartender who’s cuter than your date. The awkward intimacy of video dates, when they’re in your bedroom but you can’t touch 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Using a remote camera placed above the ring in the Houston Astrodome, Leifer photographed Williams knocked out, flat on his back in one corner, without the distraction of logos. Neil Leifer's 'Relentless' and the art behind some of sports' most famous photographs 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

It is the "blankness" of Antarctica that appeals to Francis's imagination, "the absence of worn paths or cultural memories", "a whitewashed primordial backdrop against which ideas, memories, ambitions, regrets, could be examined without distraction". 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney – review 2012-11-22T08:00:01Z

But consulting on the president’s well-being is one more distraction for Fraser, already burdened by the care of too many soldiers and his ailing marriage. ‘The Wilson Deception’ review: A terrific new Fraser and Cook mystery 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Without the distraction of expats here, though, "One Candle, Two Candles" proves worthwhile at least as a cultural curio. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement At times the camera seems agitated to the point of distraction because it’s trapped in a movie that consists almost entirely of rushed conversations in enclosed spaces. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

As the deadening visual noise and consumer distractions of our cities continue to thicken, the quiet force of Mr. Parent’s designs begins to look like a heroic resistance. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z

Motherhood is one of the most taxing responsibilities any woman can be faced with, and even the most saintly real-life mum can be driven to distraction by sleep deprivation, financial worries and wilful toddlers. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Having that distraction that is also safe and predictable, I think is really what people are looking for,” says Groening. Are you binge-watching reruns of your old favorite TV shows? You’re having a natural response to COVID-19 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

And Schwartz touched on this in his essay – that world is engineered for distraction. The Internet is scrambling our brains: We spend more time online than sleeping — and here’s how it’s messing us up 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

We’re not as desperate or lonely as she is, but there is something hungry and breathless in our dash from screening to screening, and a dizzying, hallucinatory quality to the myriad distractions we encounter. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

In a lesser film such family ties and resemblances could be a distraction, but in this well-crafted, fact-based tragedy of errors, they provide added value. ‘The Outpost’ Review: At War, in a Worst-Case Scenario 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Segel recalls being aware of the skeptics, but not to the point of distraction. Everyone’s amiable goofball takes a big leap 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Set on a psychiatric ward in modern-day England, the free play concerns the inner lives and outward distractions of both patients and staff, where “desires are suppressed and aspirations muddled.” Theater Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Amid these distractions, separating cops from criminals would be challenging enough, even if the proceedings were not 135 minutes long and peppered with look-alikes. Review: ‘The Connection,’ a Crime Thriller Retold From a Gallic Perspective 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

And then, when they are in the same room, it’s a lot of togetherness with few distractions. The grand slam of covid dating: This couple fell in love, moved in, had a kid and got engaged — all during the pandemic 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

There are so many distractions for young people today. John Lydon 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

We escape it with distractions, or we try to switch off, but we can't entirely hide from it. John Lanchester rides the London Underground 2013-03-02T08:30:35Z

Though it's only five stories, it seems rather long, but this show could be a welcome distraction for anyone commuting, with limited time for news or wanting to seem smart before coffee. We watched CNN+. Here's what we found 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, HBO Max added “Courage” to its streaming roster, and I’m grateful for the distraction. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

You have nothing else to do but rot in your seat, and the normal distractions of life are 30,000 feet below. How to survive 12 hours on a plane while wedged into your coach-class seat 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

It was staging best suited to an indoor theatrical setting, without the distractions of an arena or an outdoor festival. Music Review: How to Destroy Angels at the Apollo Theater 2013-05-01T15:23:06Z

All it takes is a slim distraction and my thumb turns turbo. I've decided to reclaim my life – by using an old Nokia phone 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

“The best part of being celibate is there are no distractions. I can focus fully on my passion, my purpose and my work.” The power of celibacy: ‘Giving up sex was a massive relief’ 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Even as we grieve, we look for a distraction — something else to fill the holes in our hearts. The Dark Knight Rises Survives the Darkest Night in U.S. Movie History 2012-07-24T14:19:19Z

What got me through the excellent dinner was a subtle distraction: comparing this home and family to the ones in Sulmona. Through Home Food, Being a Guest for Meals at Italian Homes 2010-04-10T02:26:00Z

Elsewhere, sorrow and desire may be tempered and kept in check by life's distractions and a willed lightheartedness, but in bittersweet fashion, the poems find such feelings always return. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z

Now the big fountain at the square is turned off and fewer people visit the art works there, reflecting the weariness and distraction of a population that is more concerned with hustling for basic necessities. Venezuela’s decline takes toll on late artist’s legacy 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walk also skipped the finale of “The Four,” saying that he did not want to be a distraction. Charlie Walk, Record Executive Accused of Harassment, Is Out at Republic 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

And how is it different from a distraction? Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Needless to say, not all distractions are self-generated; the world is becoming ever more saturated with ads. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The biggest threat to the whaling tradition he sees is the distraction caused by technology like video games and the Internet. Whale hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the village caught between tradition and climate change 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Paris’s glory lies in its details, best brought to one’s attention without the distraction of passers-by, and Atget recorded those as he sought to capture everything, from stairwells and door knockers to winding streets. Cultured Traveler: The Paris That Awoke to Atget?s Lens 2010-10-01T14:14:00Z

There's a sort of otherworldly air of distraction and he reminds me of one of those old-fashioned Marxist academics who have now all but disappeared. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z

“I use the term ‘distraction’,” says Jenner, “as in ‘that was my next distraction, my children’. Caitlyn Jenner on transitioning: ‘It was hard giving old Bruce up. He still lives inside me’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

In essence, the movie is an ungainly but irresistible romantic-triangle comedy built around Rudd, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson, with Nicholson rambling around its periphery like a demonic bear, part comic relief and part distraction. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z

But right now I’m working on my next essay for New York, about the culture of mass distraction. Andrew Sullivan on His Brief Return to the Online Political Fray 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

You can double down, of course, and attempt, as Crawford does, to sculpt a better you—one in which distraction is replaced with attention. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It is narrated by a Swedish writer called Tom and recounts a scenario so devastating that the intimation of real-life parallels is both lure and distraction. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

Have them sit after they eat, he advised, cautioning not to let distractions get in the way. Motherlode Blog: Beyond Miralax: Parents Share Advice for the Constipated Child 2012-05-27T03:43:01Z

“The day-to-day distraction level may be slightly higher,” Ms. Popova said. Office Party? Let?s Tweet It 2011-05-04T22:34:37Z

Gathering fallen branches to form twiggy sculptures in the woods has been a welcome distraction for the children. In a challenging, exhausting year, the garden has been a lifeline for many 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

But Secret Service assistant director Paul Morrissey said in a statement: "We regret any distraction from the Summit of the Americas this situation has caused." Secret Service scandal deepens 2012-04-15T00:37:00Z

At a recent performance, people walking behind the scenes, visible through the thin backing curtain, were a continuous distraction throughout the 100-minute play. Theater Review: ‘Dancing on Nails,’ Set in a 1950s Store, Opens at Theater 80 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z

Facing Mr. Pekar’s degeneration, Ms. Brabner said, “it was my job to be the dragon, to be the guardian, to be the distraction.” The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero 2010-09-01T19:09:00Z

Meyers critiqued a common tactic used by the administration to lie as a distraction to cover up an even worse lie. Late night hosts on the evolution of Trump: 'Dickish to dictatorish' 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

This is when campaign work was a healthy distraction. Twin campaigns: My secret mission to get pregnant while covering the presidential election 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

Guitarist Steve Turner sees the anniversary mark as another distraction from making music. Mudhoney: After 25 years, the band is ‘now’ 2013-03-29T03:42:56Z

At the end of Season 2, someone wedged a stick into the car’s steering wheel, honking him to distraction as he readied for a kill shot in sniper position on a hillside. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3 Premiere: Danglin’ Jimmy 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Will the distraction of battle finally give Sansa the chance to light it? 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Finale: 9 Questions That Need Answers 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

During the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people are turning to streaming music services for entertainment and distraction — but how are streaming numbers holding up? Lil Uzi Vert Holds at No. 1, and Streaming Habits Are Shifting 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

A few corporate shrinks is nowhere near enough, a distraction from the real issues. Should workplaces have on-site psychiatrists? 2013-02-16T17:59:01Z

His home in London is cluttered with all sorts of distractions — piles of books, a screening room for movies, a piano and his collection of eight guitars. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

She said the pandemic spurred her on, working alone in her studio with no distractions. Diane Warren assembled superstar debut album during lockdown 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The message of moral courage and self-preservation gets lost in all these directorial distractions. | 'Play It Cool': ?Play It Cool? at the Acorn Theater - Review 2011-09-19T21:30:35Z

“Be sure to embrace vertical lines so the viewer’s eye is drawn up to you and your partner, rather than dispersing décor horizontally and causing a distraction from the main event,” Ms. Broughal said. How to Transform Your Place for an Intimate Wedding 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

He was philosophical in circumstances that would have driven other directors to distraction. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z

All told, to survive this chilling era, we’ll vary widely on whether we select such perfectly pleasant, comfortingly familiar fiction for distraction or prefer something meatier. Scenes From a Marriage: One Cheats, the Other Wants To 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“There is no desire, no greed, no selfishness or distraction, only good deeds.” Review | Banned in China, Sheng Keyi’s ‘Death Fugue’ is a pungent political satire 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Leaving: nerves, distraction and preoccupation with their own busy lives. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Although director David Semel gives the pilot a dreamlike quality, the implications of this alternate history are disturbing, often to the point of distraction. 'The Man in the High Castle' is Amazon's only good new show 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

It was a soothing, though temporary, distraction from the loss. Urban Athlete: Warming Up to a Cold Run 2011-02-10T23:31:35Z

I was actually quite excited about puberty and its various distractions, and not at all sentimental about my cute-kitten posters or other features of my premenstrual existence. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

And to call it a distraction puts it down. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z

"You can really hunker down and focus on what you want to do, and not have any distractions." Family-owned Bear Creek Studio makes music and magic 2013-04-23T23:24:08Z

Field is planning studies in restaurants and airports “to document how little touch there is and how much distraction by social media”. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

“There’s no distraction of having to explain away this argument that doesn’t quite fit.” A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

“I really wanted to capture the actual work that was going on and not be a distraction.” ‘On Pointe’: The Real-Life Adventures of Some Very Young Dancers 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Viewing an art exhibition might provide a temporary distraction. Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

This also serves to change the mental channel for many children, but if the need supersedes the distraction, the distraction or redirection will fail. Perspective | Toddler tantrums: Why handling misbehavior is a losing game (and what to do instead) 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Watching other people drive is never as much fun, so the movie, directed by Scott Waugh from a script by George Gatins, supplies a few passenger seat distractions. Movie Review: ‘Need for Speed’ Puts Video Gamers in the Passenger Seat 2014-03-13T21:41:59Z

The banter was illustrative of the loose camaraderie of the company, far from the distractions of Hollywood. As the end draws near, it’s hard to let go of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-07-31T21:34:59Z

When schools banned them for being a distraction, kids turned to some replacement caregivers: their parents. 11 infamous '90s school bans 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

People continue to read, watch, listen, browse and seek out not only distraction and diversion, but also sources of meaning and connection. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

There are “no distractions” in his music, Mustard says, but there’s also nowhere to hide. The sound of the summer? It’s DJ Mustard.

Anywhere else, the noise would have been a distraction, but here, it plunged him into a pleasant state of half-conscious meditation. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Mr. Scott has said in interviews that professional dancers were included as a way to hold the choreography together, but they are distractions. Dance Review: For Healing, Not Words but Bodies in Motion 2011-04-03T21:57:05Z

Or are they a distraction concocted by Luthor to discredit the man of steel by painting him as a threat to democracy and the rule of law? Five things we learned from the new Batman v Superman trailer 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

They soon meet a third musical force of nature, and, just before they march from their secret fortress, they add the final element to what is now an impregnable weapon of mass musical distraction. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z

For parents, that means anticipating your child’s needs, such as snacks, distractions and sleep. Journeys: Passengers Push for Child-Free Flights 2010-11-13T19:17:00Z

Sesame Workshop called the controversy surrounding Clash’s personal life “a distraction that none of us want” and led to his decision to leave the show. Elmo Actor Kevin Clash Resigns Amid Sex Allegations 2012-11-20T16:32:55Z

Ms. Butler designates 45 minutes to one hour per person, and an extra 15 to 20 minutes for the bride, in case there are distractions. Wedding Makeup Artists Are Putting Safety First 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z

Most of the Gaga generation, however, is interested in distraction as an end in itself. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z

Put your desk in the corner of the room, and eliminate all possible distractions, from phones to open windows. 21 Pieces of Writing Advice From Stephen King 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Being in Haim, I’m doing so many different things and there are so many different distractions that you have to tune everything out and just be very present in your body,” she said. Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

At the time, Harris’s presentation garnered buzz but largely fell on deaf ears; social media and tech companies’ hunger for growth and engagement through distraction and division continued apace. 'A climate change-scale problem': how the internet is destroying us 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The artful grunge layered onto the cast can be a distraction, as you imagine assistant dirt wranglers anxiously hovering off camera. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z

In those productions, she played a young woman, Sigrid, who drives her boss, the middle-aged industrialist named Helena, to erotic distraction and destruction. The Enemy of Youth 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The “distraction” included protests on both sides of the Atlantic, with viewers calling the posters racist. ArtsBeat: Distributor Apologizes for Movie Posters Ignoring Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-12-27T20:41:31Z

Once or twice there was a danger of distraction, when someone was gesturing upstage while another of the principals was singing. Review: A big final weekend for Handel in Seattle 2011-03-28T17:35:04Z

But his status as a celebrity is a distraction, if not for the Rams organization itself, then for the media. Michael Sam’s WWE offer proves he’s more celebrity than athlete 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

“I thought how wonderful it would be if children in lockdown, or otherwise needing distraction during the strange and difficult time we’re passing through, illustrated the story for me,” Rowling wrote. J.K. Rowling’s next book, ‘The Ickabog,’ will be available free online 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It's just a show and I'm grateful for the distraction. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Which may explain why kids are already drifting off to the next distraction — with the grown-ups close on their heels, no doubt. Kids are over fidget spinners. Adults are just getting into them. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I’ll be able to write a while without any distractions or without getting a part-time job.” Okwiri Oduor Wins Caine Prize for African Writing 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

In the morning, there are too many distractions. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Enemy invasions have been an occasional distraction from domestic violence. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

When the lounge is full, it’s a distraction. The Pool Strives to Deal With Its Famous Dining Room 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

There were so many distractions along the way — the skin, the plastic surgery, the allegations of molestation against him. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

“In here, you can be very trapped in your mind,” she said, but art was “a distraction, it’s expression.” Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Content is a distraction, which is the role Burnham initially proclaims he wants his special to fulfill. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

My other quirks wouldn’t manifest themselves until a little later: dyslexia, restless leg syndrome and a general bratty personality that used to drive my poor father to distraction. End Days foodways: More and more of us are gaming the apocalypse, others ask "why bother?" 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

In the midst of the craziness of daily life — and the distractions of screens and so much else — it’s a challenge for parents to make reading a pleasurable priority in their family’s life. Perspective | Yes, parents, there is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Credit where it's due: Rise of the Guardians provides a welcome distraction at an event that has otherwise been rather too in thrall to broad continental comedy and over-familiar social-realist tropes. Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-14T12:17:15Z

A telephoto lens and shallow depth of field keep the attention focused on the chipmunk without any distraction from a busy background. 2016 Seattle Times Reader Photos of the Year 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

As the Cliburn enters its semifinal stage this week, several competitors said that they were trying to keep some distance from the war, worried that it could become a distraction. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

In an interview a few days earlier, Mr. Strand said such a visit would be a distraction. ‘The Originalist,’ a New Play About Justice Antonin Scalia by John Strand 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

It's as if the creators didn't trust Mary's story to be riveting enough so they littered the stage with distractions. Review: There's something (weird) about Mary 2013-04-23T02:16:03Z

In spite of these distractions, the Yale project remained a priority, especially given his long-term connection to the university, where he had begun his teaching career in 1947. Whispers of Louis Kahn’s Vision at the Yale Center for British Art 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

She also writes that these hardy construction workers “need something to look at” when they’re breaking for lunch, and she’s happy to be that distraction—which is her right. No, Catcalling Is Not a Form of Empowerment 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The director said he made films as a great “distraction” from the human condition. Woody Allen on Philosophy, Film and Regrets Over His Amazon Deal 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Second piece of advice, recognize your attendance-outrage as the tempting distraction it is. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Brother’s wife skipped the family matriarch’s funeral. Time to call her out? 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

No surprise here: Cellphone-handling is a big subgroup of this distraction category. The terrifying consequences of careless teen driving caught in alarming dash-cam video 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Part of Tarzan’s appeal — at least to some — is that he inhabits a world that resembles ours, but without the unsettling distractions of real suffering. Review: A ‘Tarzan’ With a Few Twists in the Hollywood Vine 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Its neutral flavor won't cause any distractions from the main flavors in your recipe and works especially well with stronger flavors like chocolate and peanut butter. 9 best egg substitutes in cooking and baking 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

No technology or outside distractions of any kind. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’s concerned the dog could be a distraction. For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Twitter is also an unparalleled source of distraction and in his fascinating piece, Sam Anderson explores the pros and cons of this surfeit of information and the resulting epidemic of "elective ADHD". The Best Technology Writing 2010, edited by Julian Dibbell ? review 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

The British officer is an anti-Semitic monster, a Poe-like character driven to distraction by his own swelling hatred and lust. Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Its meal, after all, was untroubled by the usual distractions: by football on TV or, moreover, the familiar family dramas. Personal Journeys: Dodging a Holiday in a Remote Mexican Town 2013-12-27T17:34:54Z

A young man in the front row pulls a tablet from his folder and taps away at some app while the juror next to him watches over his shoulder, eager for any distraction. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z

Obituaries are a paradox of sorts, a distraction toward meaningfulness, a diversion to what really matters. Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Check reviews with an eye for internet and Wi-Fi access, proximity to public work spaces, street noises and other distractions. How to Become a ‘Digital Nomad’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

In the eighties and early nineties, music journalists often considered too much spectacle a distraction, or evidence of something prefabricated and therefore inauthentic. Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” Wanted Us to Dance Away Our Differences 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

“When a nurse said, ‘I want to show you something’ and lifted up Jackson’s gown to show me Buzz Lightyear, it was an instant happy distraction from everything else that was going on.” A pediatric surgeon becomes an artist after surgery, drawing on bandages to lift the spirits of young patients 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

In the statement, Mr. Adjaye said that he was also stepping down from ceremonial roles and trusteeships so the allegations do “not become a distraction” David Adjaye Relinquishes Roles After Reported Accusations of Misconduct 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

At this point in streaming music's development, ultra-specific playlists are commodities — not to mention something of a distraction from what appears to be Apple's core mission here. So Apple Music is really a return to radio, right? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

What is all this convenience and quick-fix distraction doing to people, to families, to society? The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Another earlier study found that both acceptance and suppression/distraction worked. Perspective | Want to stop craving chocolate? Here are two options. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

People have been very, very supportive of what I've been able to do with the show this year, but I want to stay focused on the work and not let this become a distraction. ArtsBeat: 'Walking Dead' Man Walking: An Exit Interview With Glen Mazzara 2013-02-05T13:04:20Z

I find many efforts to create a total museum visiting experience—dining, cocktails, DJs and dancing— are distractions from museums’ missions focusing on collecting, scholarship, programming, and education. How to Fit All of Asia (and a Food Cart) Into a Museum Cafe? 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Once reviled by park rangers as an unfortunate distraction, cellphones are lately being embraced by national, state and local parks as a way to educate a more connected public. Heads Up: Lessons on Nature From a Cellphone Call 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

Failure is definitely too strong a word for useful distractions such as cookies. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s tough out in the real world,” she wails on “True Romance”; this LP offers a welcome distraction. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Being bored by their behind-the-scenes exchanges only increases the sadness evoked by the piece and its dramatization of the difficulties of making art amid the distractions of an artist’s career. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

In isolation, the baby issue may appear momentous, but it’s actually more of a distraction. My boyfriend has changed his mind and now wants children | Dear Mariella 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

Like so many funny guys, he's been responsible for a lot of comic relief — and yes, even comedies need that relief factor, that break in the action, that unexpected distraction. Chris Pratt enters a new galaxy with his winning brand of acting 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

It was Carver who said that “unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction,” for him, necessitated the short story form. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Have we always known glitter was a trick, a distraction? The problem with sex and glitter 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Jason Eagan, the artistic director of the artist incubator Ars Nova, said that Sondheim went to shows there but never to openings, because he didn’t want to be a distraction on someone else’s big night. Cherished Words From Theater’s Encourager-in-Chief 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Another distraction — well, for us anyway — is that Missandei gets a new look this season. GoT: Nathalie Emmanuel Talks Missandei/Grey Worm Romance 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Days after the story was published, Richards, 46, resigned from his role as host, saying that the show did not need the distraction. She Wrote the History of ‘Jeopardy!’ Then She Changed It. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

"There's an undercurrent of profound distraction in these characters," said Baitz, the acclaimed playwright behind familial powder kegs such as "The Substance of Fire" and "Other Desert Cities." NBC risks parental blowback with 'The Slap' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

For Ms. Reyes, who said that she suffers from kidney disease, Instagram is a welcome distraction. The ‘Doortrait’ Artists of Instagram 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

It was the capstone of what was, save for the distraction of a cluster of tables whose patrons made enough noise for the whole house, as exciting a musical set as one finds in D.C. Tedd Baker leads an explosive performance at Bohemian Caverns

Even if you miss the show, there will be plenty of distractions outside. Celebrating Museums All Over Town 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

She moved with grace, sang with fury and smiled with the certain knowledge that this was really just a nice distraction from the real news. Pop and Jazz Concert Highs of 2011 2011-12-28T23:32:40Z

Levy’s music selection was both an annual tradition and a welcome distraction from the end of an era. The Rise of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Or the comforting distraction of a musical put on by kids? Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

"There are not as many distractions as London or in the West." Runaway dancer Sergei Polunin returning to London 2013-05-28T15:25:22Z

Some like to suggest that the distractions be all but ignored — that the press should focus only on the policy. Perspective | Mixing troubling policy and loony distraction, Trump tries to get away with media madness 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Brown, magnanimous and soft-spoken, didn’t need any distractions from the only job that mattered: regaining mobility on the left side of his body. Ronald K. Brown Has a Mantra: ‘Absolute Victory Every Day’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

You will either love what they do or be driven to distraction by its self-conscious wackiness. New band of the day – La Shark (No 1,399) 2012-11-20T16:34:47Z

She attributes it to the fact that people need distraction and a reason to smile — as the news cycle is dominated by the war in Ukraine, deadly heat waves and other grim stories. We asked Emmanuel the TikTok-interrupting emu about his sudden fame 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

“What a horrible idea, a ridiculous distraction. Me, I thought, ‘Why even remind them?’ Mark Wahlberg and James Caan Discuss ‘The Gambler’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Many people seem to assume that mindful eating means eliminating distractions, though that isn’t necessarily the case. Perspective | How to eat mindfully in the real world — and that doesn’t mean distraction-free 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

If the character’s separation from the show is anything but permanent — no going off to rehab or to visit a faraway relative — it’ll be a distraction. How to Save ‘The Conners’ from Roseanne 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Others work closed-in, with no distractions, just their desk and whatever they have on the wall in front of them. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Russell Thomas: The conversation about blackface is a distraction. The rarity of black faces, not ‘Otello’ in blackface, should be issue in opera 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Social media, he writes, is “a distraction from the real work, the heavy lifting, the development of your true self” — an almost radical opinion at a time when TikTok creators are treated as auteurs. Simon Doonan Has Been Keeping Busy 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

In this context, they suggest the entertainment industry’s dazzling distractions from real social problems. Review: Kim Gordon’s ‘Design Office: The City Is a Garden,’ Scrawled Words in Critique 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In general, I think that as keen a reader as your daughter might prefer distraction to an "experience of moving" book. Can you suggest any moving house books for a worried seven-year-old? 2012-05-28T16:29:43Z

Despite the distractions of several other soundtracks, a possible TV series and a new band with his wife, Reznor said he plans to return to the band that he all but retired in 2009. Trent Reznor to 'focus on Nine Inch Nails' 2011-03-08T16:18:46Z

I just don’t want to encourage framing this in terms of hope at all, because the too-much/too-little/just-right business — even hope in general — is so slippery that it will only become a distraction. Perspective | Child’s illness leaves parent’s friends at a loss 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

But sometimes it flopped, creating unnecessary visual distractions ranging from a servant entangled in the chandelier, hanging in the air for a dozen minutes, to supernumeraries pantomiming atop the grand piano set. Review | Musical hilarity wins over high jinks in Wolf Trap’s ‘Barber of Seville’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

"Headdesk" seems to imply that one is so appalled by the stimulus in question that one is prepared to cause oneself physical pain as a welcome distraction. Internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO | 2013-05-28T10:10:43Z

I didn't want any distractions or too many opinions. Clare Maguire, Katy B and the Pierces: pop's new queens in waiting 2010-12-23T22:15:02Z

Millions of Americans, stuck at home from mid-March through the spring, threw themselves into digital distractions and ancient hobbies, intermittently checking social media to see how everyone else was holding up. Leave It in ‘Early Quar’? 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

If anything it was a premium distraction enjoyed more for its lunacy and seductive fashion than the quality of its storytelling, a very pretty and ultimately weightless tale about one-percenter problems. How Hugh Grant's charming villain who plays the victim embodies 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

They “fooled around,” Hart writes in her book, and his “wonderful” lips were a “distraction from how strongly he smelled of hair product.” Kiss and Tell: Melissa Joan Hart’s Scandalous ’90s Memories 2013-09-27T16:41:02Z

But the neighbor is a MacGuffin, a distraction from what strikes me as the real substance of the book: the narrator’s ruminations on the nature of memory and time. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

“And for the last year and a half, I’ve had to be Work Kate at home, with all my messes and interruptions and distractions.” Will Work for Air-Conditioning 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Donald Cooper In books and movies, and in theatre too, stories are delivered mostly in linear fashion with a beginning and an end and no distractions. The Coming Storm – review 2012-06-22T16:19:25Z

But for those who can still get the ingredients, baking provides a combination of distraction, comfort and — especially with bread recipes, which can take days to complete — something to look forward to. Stress Baking More Than Usual? 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Mindless eating, such as eating for entertainment or distraction or to fulfill cravings, is a known contributor to obesity. Back to school, with a healthful reboot

“I love him to distraction… I detest you,” Elizabeth retaliates, before she is thrown onto the bed and pinned down by Poldark, at which point she succumbs and begins to kiss him back. Poldark Sex Scene Perpetuates 'Rape Fantasies,' Critics Say 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

We have a lot of work to do and I’m looking forward to an end to this pointless distraction.” Lance Armstrong, Most Disappointing Cancer Survivor 2012-10-17T16:49:00Z

An 18-year old female novice singer and a 23-year old barber-turned-rapper are the unlikely finalists of a televised talent contest providing Afghans a welcome distraction from the daily bloodshed in their country. Afghan music contest pits first female finalist against rapper 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a gruesome display that adds to the unease, but it’s also a distraction because, not long after, the narrative takes a hard, sharp turn away from the pulp-fiction terrain they have effectively mapped out. | 'Stone': Upright Parole Officer With a Target on His Back 2010-10-07T23:04:00Z

Alcohol has never been served at Canyon Ranch because it is considered a distraction from the work of restoring and rejuvenating. The Last Resort? Canyon Ranch Succumbs to Botox 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

“So to say she was trying to be a distraction is absolutely absurd.” Is Your Body Appropriate to Wear to School? 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

We admire the effort and the science, and all that they portend, while the sovereign work of art itself becomes a mere distraction in a broader narrative of technological progress. Digital Fur, Digital Folks: Reality Is Starting to Feel Overrated 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The director Christoph Marthaler has no less of a reputation as a provocateur than Mr. Loy, but his staging, though not without distractions, relates the action in a recognizable and often absorbing way. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z

Further distraction: the actor playing the ostensibly German Professor Bhaer appears to have . . . an Italian accent? We watched 15 straight hours of ‘Little Women,’ and things got weird 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Strangely, though, the early episodes unfurl without significant new characters or intriguing distractions. Season 3 of ‘House of Cards’ Starts With More Policy Than Chicanery 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Macron, naturally, has dismissed the scandal as a distraction, a tempest in a teapot, and accused journalists of willful hysteria and distortion. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

But how can theater artists committed to reason, subtlety and dialectical thought stand a chance in a culture of distraction, distortion and deafening din? Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Now Mr. Dee wants to pursue his own photography without the distractions or demands of a commercial studio. D. James Dee Plans to Give Away His Modern Art Archive 2013-06-04T21:39:12Z

“The halfway house is finding something we can get completely absorbed in without distraction,” Burgs says. ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Here are a few things to argue about, if you need distraction from all the other arguments going on right now. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

A distraction to draw your eyes away from the corrugated metal facade? Bar's motto: 'the best beer, the best sausage, at The Wurst Place' 2012-09-26T18:56:04Z

Perhaps all the bling and skinny-dipping is a distraction, but the movie is subtle and complex in ways not immediately apparently – not unlike the women it seeks to dignify. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

They both noted that a salon offers amenities such as lighting, proper chairs and the opportunity to escape the distractions of the home or office, not to mention legal liability if something goes wrong. Skin Deep: Hairstylists Who Make House Calls 2010-03-31T19:25:00Z

It’s as disingenuous as you might expect, but it’s also a live-action cartoon — an Extreme Road Runner distraction that is finally as American as apple pie with a Velveeta wedge. Movie Review: In ‘White House Down,’ Channing Tatum Rescues the Nation 2013-06-27T20:33:58Z

I got distracted, and the distraction became alarming. Ryan Adams: The First Time I Was Rattled by a Heckler 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

We experience 21st century life as ever speeding up, but was life actually lived faster in the 18th century, a time of far fewer distractions than now and lifespans much shorter? From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

But even if they don’t lead to more processed food in our diet, the rush to clean up labels hurts us because it’s a big, hairy distraction. Perspective | Labeling processed foods as ‘clean’ makes us feel safe. And that’s a problem. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

External distractions — a presidential motorcade, anti-capitalist demonstrations — appear through tinted windows and on touch screens. Film: ‘Cosmopolis,’ Cronenberg’s Take on Don DeLillo 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z

Under such circumstances, something concrete — such as planning Kennedy’s funeral — provided a blessed distraction. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

For years, The Irishman was little more than a rumour; plagued by delays, distractions and drop-outs, it looked odds-on never to make it out of the starting gate. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Tranquillity and just the right touch of creature comfort quell the collective distraction of our modern world. Summer on the lake: ‘It’s as Canadian as ice hockey’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

But its insistence that it is somehow more dedicated to pure flavor without any distractions than any other show is amusing. The Taste: Do Cooking Shows Really Need The Voice Treatment? 2013-01-23T14:41:32Z

I think he just found it a distraction to address purely how to execute the scene. A change in Luck 2012-02-11T00:03:00Z

This is a rare form of entertainment, closer perhaps to enlightenment than we are accustomed to in these days of superficial distraction. In 'Aubergine,' Julia Cho turns choked-off emotions into a tale of sustenance 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Tony was stumped as to how to choreograph the routine, so he opted to go for distraction and hope the judges didn’t notice. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Semi-Finals Starring Michael Jackson and Val in a Speedo 2012-11-20T13:30:54Z

What they had was a bottle, or pills, or things that were distractions, or tools of escape. Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto give voice to the prickly friendship of authors "Truman & Tennessee" 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

For a while people have been trying to push back against online distractions. Reclaiming Our (Real) Lives From Social Media 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

While many of the book’s illustrations seem extraneous, merely visual distraction, two dozen or so are very inspired. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The combination of new sneakers, clothes and Absolut was the perfect painkiller for his problem, a beautiful distraction that temporarily allowed him to move forward. Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Avoid sending a child to their room, where they are may be more distractions and toys. 8 Ways to Discipline Your Kids 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Absorption in a state of distraction, the default mode in the digital era, is both method and message. Raymond Pettibon: Pictures, Literary Voices and Surfers, Too 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

SG Lewis sings about the ways an encounter at a party could go: Will it evaporate amid distractions, or will continuing the conversation for just one more song and lead to romance? Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

The idea of the flip book was an annoying distraction, besides being commercial suicide. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z

"It's something interesting and enjoyable for the visitors, the staff, the patients. It's this pleasant sort of distraction from why you're really here." Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

They just enjoy each other's company, to the point where filming is a distraction sometimes. Inbetweeners end their journey Down Under 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Inevitable distractions included traffic noise from West 54th Street and the numerous chirping birds that join in the music making. Review: At Summergarden, a Steamy Evening of Exploratory Sounds 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Shantiniketan and its school represented an idea as much as a place: people do their best learning and thinking when they divorce themselves from the distractions of urban life and reconnect with their natural environment. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z

The running program dates back to the 1970s, when famed Oregon Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine visited the prison and put on seminars, encouraging inmates to focus on training and racing instead of prison distractions. Running with criminals: the prison that helps inmates rehabilitate a mile at a time 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Essentially three people were invited into our home, disrupted our evening and became a huge distraction. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Turn off the FaceTime instead of turning away the FaceTimer 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Their vividness conveys a state of attentiveness and responsiveness to which ordinary consciousness, in its distraction and world-weary fatigue, rarely rises. Art Review: ?Colorful Realm,? Works by Ito Jakuchu at National Gallery 2012-03-29T21:27:01Z

The built-in distraction of wanting to puzzle out which historical figures are represented is now compounded by an urge to determine who might be missing from previous outings, and who might be new. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z

For instance, for travel to India, the department warns, “Major airports, train stations, popular restaurants, and tourist sites are often used by scam artists looking to prey on visitors, often by creating a distraction.” 10 common travel scams — and how to avoid them 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The four items on her list include kicking the day off with a glass of water and some outdoor light, reading without distraction and getting at least eight hours of sleep. Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

When you’re uncertain about love, it can be such a distraction. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z

Although sweet, it's too slight to sum up the story and is a distraction. Review: Paul Kelly's song cycle of love 2012-11-20T20:46:05Z

His limited field of vision, he says, has helped him concentrate on performances, enabling him to tune out the distractions of the surrounding crew. ‘Vision Portraits’ Review: Blindness as a Way of Seeing 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

But children of aging parents are told to hover more: step up, provide support, offer distraction. This Life: The Father Is Child of the Man 2012-07-27T21:43:38Z

“My dual citizenship has become a distraction in this campaign,” he announced in a March statement. Dr. Oz’s Trump-infused Senate run is coming down to the wire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

A palpable silence descends, quieting distractions and making it easy to focus on details and to concentrate on idiosyncrasies. One artist is from Italy, the other from New York; what happens when worlds collide? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

And as old-media extinction looms, the new ecosystem is often used as a corrective — or loud distraction. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

To say that these qualities are distractions—that the real reason these messiahs were scorned is that they threatened the American order—is a hard sell. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Her new show, “Unicorn Gratitude Mystery,” is made up of three short pieces that share an exasperation with the habit of taking refuge in fantasy and contrived distractions to avoid reality. Review: Karen Finley Has Presidential Politics on Her Mind 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

‘There was just one distraction…’ Rupert the horse with baritone Ambrogio Maestri in Royal Opera's Falstaff. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 with the bluster of a superpower, but as the years went by the war for many Americans became an unfinished distraction that carried the whiff of failure. Blood, sand and tears: A foreign correspondent's view of the opera 'Fallujah' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

I'd even taken the app off my phone, so I couldn't reflexively detach from my outside life whenever a stray observation or a need for idle distraction hit. Don't blame the trolls: Here's why I quit Twitter and what happened after 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The treatment program implemented there was contingent upon the idea that work itself proffers enough distraction and purpose to help rehabilitate an addict. A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

He told himself he was tired, that was all – a busy, noisy Christmas was just the sort of distraction he needed. Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z

What that produced on Wednesday was a show that was half substance and half distraction, and entirely alarming, showing irresponsible politicians are more keen to create good television than enact responsible governance. The Michael Cohen Show: Where GOP politicians angle to become Trump's new co-stars 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

With all the distractions of open-air theater, they’re old hands at snagging your attention, and keeping it. Outdoor Shakespeare done well 2013-07-19T17:38:50Z

Is this girl or guy worth the constant morning distraction and pressure to find something perfect to wear each day? How to Deal With an Office Romance 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Let’s not permit restroom business to blind us to the obvious truth that intensity is more alluring in our age of distraction than extended duration. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

There were just a lot of things that were weighing heavily on me, and I found it was just a really great distraction. Q&A with Richard Marx: How the singer is keeping busy and avoiding anxiety during the pandemic 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

The bank for which he works and the neighborhood where he lives are so drab that his daily routine of clerical drudgery, fast-food snacks and toxic junk-culture distractions is a living hell. Review: In ‘Buzzard,’ an Angry, Unkempt Antihero 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The only problem is that he's torn between loving the internet, and finding it a terrible distraction. Graham Linehan: Twitter has made me 2012-05-27T18:00:01Z

Tonight, DI Kay Lancaster discusses her top-priority investigation into a distraction burglary gang who target pensioners and the difficulties and demands of becoming a single parent after the end of her marriage. TV highlights 11/07/2013 2013-07-11T06:00:05Z

More precisely, they rely on the distraction of their rapt audience so that they may pick their pockets clean. ‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The show was a sign of how Valentine’s Day is now being celebrated by young people in a conservative society where it serves as a distraction from years of war. 'Mr and Ms Valentine': Afghanistan celebrates with roses and fashion 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

In the modern world it’s so easy to feel constricted and compressed and driven to distraction by obligation… art is the only thing that cracks you open, that allows you to feel the world again. “Obviously, we all die”: On rejecting the cult of positivity and embracing the joy of darkness 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The poet's praise of "mast, and helm, and pennon fair" seems a misjudged distraction. Poem of the week: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2011-07-25T10:59:41Z

But they probably won’t care, because, as Simpson readily admits, “Fame and money are great distractions.” Review | The juicy details of Jessica Simpson’s memoir are only part of her misunderstood story 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“How I Met Your Mother” closed down on Monday with an hourlong finale crammed with all the deflection, distraction and guile that made this CBS comedy the Scheherazade of prime time. The TV Watch: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Ends With Twists Expected and Sweet 2014-04-01T04:10:26Z

P&G CEO Bob McDonald later said that the company did not need the "distraction" of using Woods in its campaigns. Tiger Woods' TV allure: the "train wreck" factor 2010-08-11T11:44:00Z

Other color-blind acolytes, however, dismiss racial debate as a distraction from real issues, such as unemployment, “broken borders,” “law and order,” and “voter fraud.” All lives matter. “Get Out” and the Death of White Racial Innocence 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

For a lot of people, they will never graduate beyond; magic is a distraction, magic is a trifling matter, it is not important, it is not a form of self expression. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

I packed up my dogs and I went back home, thinking that if I got back to Minnesota and out of New York for, like, six months it wouldn’t be a distraction. “It’s really terrifying”: Lizz Winstead on stealth antiabortion laws and fighting politicians in “their last grasp of hanging on to unearned power” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Smart phones, the omnipresence of TV and music, and the convenience of tablet devices all help Americans construct lives of perpetual distraction and amusement. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

For both Kennedys, King meant trouble — a distraction from the things, like managing the Cold War or the American economy, they’d come to Washington to do. Book excerpt: The untold story of MLK and RFK 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The focus in question isn’t that of the perpetrator but of the sucker, who is lured in by the grifter’s seductive distraction. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

He's got to find him an action woman, you see, to satisfy his soul, a mind distraction woman before he loses control. Old music: The Electras – Action Woman 2012-06-01T08:00:00Z

With fewer distractions the work’s languorous lack of vivid characterizations — its pretty, polite refusal to get as lurid or personal as it should — becomes more noticeable. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z

It’s a kind of drug of elation, it’s a distraction, it’s an antidote for the tragedy that is everyday life. Comic T.J. Miller coming back to his old stomping ground 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Issuing my critiques without attribution forced the President to answer them directly on their merits or not at all, rather than creating distractions through petty insults and name-calling,” he wrote. The New York Times called ‘Anonymous’ op-ed author Miles Taylor a Trump ‘senior official.’ Was that accurate? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Chewing ginger root, a common cooking ingredient in many cultures around the world, can reduce nausea, though whether it has an actual chemical effect on the stomach or is merely an effective distraction is debated. The Getaway: Sick on the Road? Try the Grocery Store 2012-08-22T14:35:05Z

Still, it became a distraction to the campaign and confirmed that not all aspects of pop culture are universally understood or accepted. Obama dropped the mic. And made the pop culture world see politics as cool. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

His flippant, controversial dismissal of concerns over the looting of Baghdad's antiquities museum was, similarly, the consequence of distraction over his wife's ruptured appendix. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z

“I’m on my phone, reading everything, and I’m so stressed out. Listening to something actually feels very cozy. It’s a nice gift to give to yourself, the gift of distraction.” Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

But the darkening shivers of his arrangement for string quartet, played by Brooklyn Rider, set up an emotional pivot: He’s still numb from a wrenching loss, and his daily routine provides only meager distraction. Review: In Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Fiction Issue,’ Timelessness and Sept. 11 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

As inventive as some of these works are, they have to compete with many other distractions. Arts: ?Audium? and ?The Wave Organ?: The Sounds of Art 2010-03-28T02:41:00Z

The careening video projections on the scrim that fronted the stage, helping us track the journey of the central character, Michael, portrayed by the virtuoso trumpet player Marco Blaauw, were a continual distraction. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z

We prefer the multicolored distractions of illusionism on flat surfaces, flickering in a movie theater or digitized on our laptops and smartphones, or painted on canvas. Has Sculpture Become Just Another Pretty Face? 2011-08-09T17:39:27Z

Many fans and pundits have simply chalked up Woods' recent struggles on the links to distractions. Golf: Why Tiger Woods' Swing Overhaul May Hurt His Game 2011-04-08T08:50:00Z

Today, each and every day, there are enormous distractions, there are enormous other opportunities, and so it’s much more competitive. Famed Ghosts And Their Diligent Keeper 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z

The iPad, with its cheerful icons and insistent gleam, invariably tugs my gaze away from my own reading material, an inescapable distraction. When Couples Find Gadgets Interfere With Harmony 2011-12-07T23:37:22Z

After the years-long debate and distraction over the $16 million plan for the Seasonal Inflatable Structure, known as “the Bubble” ended with the proposal being scrapped, Hirshhorn officials declared a refocus on art and infrastructure. Hirshhorn Museum selects Melissa Chiu to be new director

As marketing, it’s relatively low-budget — and democratizing — but the potential for distraction is boundless. Pop in the Era of Distraction 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

There are plenty of distractions for all ages with workshops, minstrels, a 72-hour "impossible lecture" and art, with live graffiti plus installations. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

Ergüven’s voice as we discuss all this is light, but somehow it is steely, too, her smile a distraction. Deniz Gamze Ergüven: ‘For women in Turkey it’s like the middle ages’ 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

As the world burns, streaming entertainment has supplied us with distraction and proffered the illusion of sublime control. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

But even those who are, like Ms. Murphy and Ms. Mueller, find their numbers undermined by the distractions of frantic and unfocused staging. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z

The problem is that our brains are predisposed toward distraction, wandering for an average of 47 percent of the day, writes Mr. Bailey. May I Have My Attention, Please? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s all a nice distraction from the fact that the song — produced by Max Martin, Shellback and Oscar Holter — brings nothing new to Pink’s musical formula. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Eisenhower’s unwillingness to publicly back his running mate puzzled the press and drove Nixon to distraction. Jeffrey Frank’s ‘Ike & Dick’: 2 strange political bedfellows 2014-02-05T21:55:34Z

It falls to hitmaking companies to insinuate themselves into that permanent tug-of-war and wrest a moment of our focus from the distraction. How to have a pop culture hit like La La Land and Rae Sremmurd 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

While it feels a little odd to get to the end of Beethoven’s Fifth and not have an audience roar into applause, the music benefits from being presented absolutely without distraction. Gerard Schwarz assembles an ‘All-Star Orchestra’ for TV 2013-07-15T18:13:33Z

The suspension order was given by deputy Seagal's boss, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff, who ruled the accusations would be a "distraction." "Steven Seagal Lawman" returning to A&E 2010-09-07T03:05:00Z

Still, some research suggests that talking to a passenger is one of the most common distractions in a vehicle before it crashes, he said. Oak Park may ban eating while driving 2011-10-13T02:04:00Z

Even so, linguistic stumbles and slips were a distraction. Review: Salut Salon Mixes Whimsy and Virtuosity 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

As professional “best black friends,” their main purpose is to serve as a human mask and distraction for the Republican Party and its deep affinity for racism and white supremacy. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Donald Trump: In many ways, the civil rights hero saw this coming 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

I ran a slow lap around it, drinking in the view of the gilded dome fountain below and the forest of spires beyond, immersed in the moment, without distraction. In Cairo, Alone Time With the Pharaohs 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

These seeming distractions legitimise the repetition of the all-important verb "choose". Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z

She squints and lumbers and makes hay of the “bilious pigeon” sounds that drive Higgins to distraction. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

I know I'm very demanding, and probably drive everybody who has to deal with me to distraction. Rachel Abbott: 'Self-publishing means the success of my books is entirely down to me' 2013-07-02T09:53:52Z

But when I’m out of traction I will have a nice distraction And a tad of satisfaction for my pains. ‘Bloomberg: The Musical’: He’s Not Calling the Tunes 2013-01-29T23:43:22Z

The survey found there were myriad factors for why young people felt less on track at work while remote including distractions from lack of childcare and working in a more confined space. Employees under 50 working remotely during coronavirus pandemic struggle to stay motivated: study 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

She managed to make an impression amid the claustrophobic distractions of Act II, which features a dizzying mix of townsfolk, scampering children, a donkey, a military band and miscellaneous clutter. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z

“I was very moved that she wanted this just to be my version of Mary Poppins and embraced as that, rather than her coming in at some point and being a distraction,” she said. Emily Blunt's terrifying moment as the new Mary Poppins 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Typical sentence: “In an environment of maximum pressure, I learned to ignore the noise and distractions and instead to push for results that would improve lives.” Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Nir Eyal, a behavioural design expert and author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life says that the leading causes of distraction are internal triggers: uncertainty, stress, anxiety and fatigue. One ping after another: why everyone needs a notification detox 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

She waved her right hand down by her hip, dismissively, as if putting distractions aside, or just saying, I got this. Music Review: Improvising Concert Into Rousing Sermon 2011-01-15T00:00:10Z

“It’s just a great distraction for people to get laughs.” John Oliver says he'll donate $55,000 if Connecticut city names sewage plant after him 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

However, Levine's penchant for the conspiratorial – everything eventually leads to Google! – is a distraction that occasionally makes him sound like rightwing broadcaster Glenn Beck. Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z

For us, the fishing provided plenty of distraction. A do-it-yourself fishing adventure on Alaska’s Kanektok River 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

And this, Crawford thinks, has turned distraction into a contest between corporate power and individual will. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

For a band so adept at terseness, it was a distraction. Music Review: Cloud Nothings at the Studio at Webster Hall 2012-01-28T02:24:57Z

But by then, after years on the road touring, distractions from her athletic career were mounting. Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Keeping her partner and a small handful of close friends in daily contact helped, but distraction was how Wilson got through the moments in between. Lessons from two years of bedrest: 'Embrace the gravitational force of the click hole' 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

“It hurt people and it was practice for divorce and a distraction from preparing for life.” Christian author Joshua Harris is sorry for the damage he did. Now what? 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

She is indeed excellent, even as Sofie's storyline evolves into a distraction from the other urgent, life or death stories swirling around her in the facility. The gripping immigration story of "Stateless" risks being blanked out by star power 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

During her time in Seattle, working at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, she knew of Hedgebrook as a place women writers could go to remove themselves from the distractions of the world and focus on their writing. How 3 women-led arts organizations in the Seattle area make room for diverse voices 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Rudin had a sizable slate of projects in the works, and his move appears intended to allow those projects to proceed without the distraction of protests about his behavior. After Bullying Reports, Scott Rudin Says He’ll Step Back From Broadway 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

As for McEnany, she may be a Harvard Law School graduate but was frequently and bizarrely wrong as she, too, maintained utter fealty to Trump, using redirection and distraction as her tools of choice. Perspective | For fans of inane punditry, CNN’s double loss of Lord and McEnany is crushing 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The whole business of the cotton gin is just a distraction to ignore this plain fact. Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

“I was very grateful to have my little cardigan project to give me that little bit of a healthy distraction and at the same time find calm and peace,” he said. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

At the same time, these ordinary anxieties provide a distraction from the pandemic. For American Wine Producers, Fear, Uncertainty and Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

At the very least, by using distractions you are avoiding scenarios involving bribes and rewards for the most basic behaviors. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

And the program book, which the Miller Theater usually fills with copious notes, listed the works but not the movements, and offered no information about the music, presumably to remove that distraction from listeners’ laps. Music Review: Jennifer Koh at the American Academy of Arts and Letters - Review 2011-10-25T22:11:59Z

It’s not just that we choose our own distractions; it’s that the pleasure we get from being distracted is the pleasure of taking action and being free. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“We’ve grown up with technology and distractions – we almost have to learn how to look someone in the eye.” ‘It’s a safety blanket’: why more and more teenagers are relying on life coaches 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The attentions of no-see-ums and mosquitoes could occasionally drive one to the fringes of distraction, though the bugs were not as bad as on some Alaska excursions. A do-it-yourself fishing adventure on Alaska’s Kanektok River 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Midtown is largely empty, the towering office buildings no longer spilling forth hordes of potential viewers primed for distraction on a lunch break or cocktail hour. Holiday Windows Aren’t Over. Neither, They Say, Is New York. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The great creative moments in our history are almost all stories of distraction and daydreaming – Archimedes in the bath, Einstein dreaming of riding a sunbeam – of alert minds open to the grace of chaos. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z

We were a most pleasant distraction for each other, but school would eventually resume for her, and I’d eventually meet someone in Reno. Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The hobby started as a distraction from her day job, but after one year, she quit the W.W.F. to devote herself to guitar making. Creating Guitars for Gypsy Jazz 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The more life events spiralled beyond my control, the tighter my grip on the double distractions of meal planning and exercise. Goal! The football league that helped me lose five stone 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

And though Dallas may well have still beaten Miami if Cuban had been a distraction, it certainly made it easier for the Mavs that he wasn't. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z

He says how he's been working all these years and it's such a relief not to have to worry about publication because publication is a distraction. Letters reveal human side of JD Salinger 2011-01-27T00:16:46Z

"I think in the past, I had a lot of distractions," she said. Lindsay Lohan to play Junior Gotti's wife 2011-04-20T22:23:15Z

Without the distractions he faced at Copain, Mr. Guthrie is considering several projects. In Deepest Mendocino, Rebuilding a Life in Wine 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The signature Rugger irritant remains, which is the splash of text in black ink on the shirt flap, a touch of industrial charm but really a distraction. | Gant Rugger: Gant Rugger ? Critical Shopper 2011-10-05T22:02:05Z

Tobin, played with a vivid sense of shellshocked distraction by Billy Crudup, has obviously let his life go to seed since his wife, a fellow writer, left him for her editor. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z

They were focused in a way that makes much other art, however ambitious, feel vague in purpose, a distraction from, rather than an engagement with, the politics of living and dying. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Rachel didn’t care either; she opened a new window on her computer; she was working and didn’t want any distraction. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My new housemate and a prescription for world peace 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

"The distractions at News Corp have been at the upper management level but not at the operating level," said Eagan. Analysis: Fox wounded, but not because of News Corp crisis 2011-09-30T21:51:53Z

This is music you should sit with, free of distraction, to feel the effect of focus itself. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The scandal was an unwelcome distraction for Hollande, whose popularity ratings are at record lows, as he tries to stem rising unemployment and spur growth in the euro zone's second-largest economy. Actress Gayet wins privacy lawsuit versus tabloid in Hollande affair 2014-03-27T16:53:34Z

Thank you for kindly tolerating whatever distractions your neighbor causes. Theater Review: Rattlestick Stages New ‘Charles Ives Take Me Home’ 2013-06-14T02:00:02Z

I hadn't packed any toys or books or other convenient distractions. Glitter and Cotija: The poignance of my first lunch out with my daughter 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

A much more troublesome distraction presents itself in the pilot where Khan, who wrote the episode, attempts to herd the four timelines in which the series takes place into one cohesive unit. With "Young Rock," is Dwayne Johnson starting his presidential campaign 10 years early? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

The world may be falling apart, but TikTok is, as ever, serving up distraction. The Rainbow Man Brings His Mishmash Appeal to TikTok 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

The price of connection, though, was distraction: Before she switched phones, she said, she “wasn’t Snapchatting the whole city.” How to manage a long-distance friendship 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

This is us, up to our eyeballs in great television, and grateful for the distraction. Review | 2017 Emmys: TV stops to bask in its own glory — and note some of its progress 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure people, shut in as they are, need good distractions. . . . All coronavirus, all the time? Spare me.” Network news ran round-the-clock after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Why not for coronavirus? 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

She also said on Twitter that she would not be a distraction. Snooki's plans to set TV show on Jersey shore upset some locals 2013-07-23T20:30:42Z

If the Rubin and its art have a message, Ms. Bernhard suggested, it might be the need for reflection and peace in an age of electronic distraction. Rosanne Cash, the Rubin Art Museum?s Resident Musician 2012-02-02T23:25:17Z

Mr. Trump may not follow a deliberate distraction strategy, but he doesn’t need one. Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

“A Hologram for the King” is less about Alan’s distractions and more about how he finds himself in this void of an environment. Best empty theaters: the 10 best films without an audience in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Rather than driving “Little House” fans to distraction by diminishing or disparaging the literature they treasure, Fraser declares her respect and affection for it. ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the Truth About the American West 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Mr. Pilati said that the reports have been an infuriating distraction because he thought that they were driven by jealous colleagues or those who were seeking to unseat him. Paris Fashion Week: Balanced on Fashion?s Wobbly Pedestal 2011-03-04T20:37:01Z

The main distraction to this fleshy family portrait is an ill-fitting rom-com subplot apparently intended to lighten things up a bit. Theater Review: Richard Masur in ‘This Is Fiction,’ at Cherry Lane Studio Theater 2012-06-20T23:00:16Z

Though Mr. Jones used to have an apartment in Paris, he had given up the lease when he got the Fendi job, to reduce distractions. Kim Jones Wants to Rule the Fashion World 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

And, finally, find something to use as a distraction. Alcoholism doesn't confine me any longer – and it doesn't define me either | Jack Monroe 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

If Lapidos’s attempts at conjuring a surrogate Yale University and New Haven feel like an elaborate distraction, her stabs at literary counterfeiting are inspired. A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Nervous that he wouldn’t be able to crank out enough material, Mr. Burnett started waking at 4 a.m. to write while his home was quiet and free of distractions. For T Bone Burnett, a Burst of Creativity at 70 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Those men want to offer distractions while the flood slowly rises. After Chris Licht, people are wondering where CNN goes from here. Here's a wild suggestion 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

To his editors, it’s a distraction — the other women were minorities from questionable backgrounds, not the privileged daughters of powerful white men. Review ‘The Ways of the Dead,’ by Neely Tucker

To the hard-liners of east and west the second world war was a distraction. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z

Pierre, the moody malcontent who provides the novel’s philosophical core, mostly seems like a distraction here. Natasha, Imelda and the Great Immersion of 2013 2013-05-20T13:00:23Z

“Rooms that lack distractions, like a hotel, are ideal for focus and concentration,” he says. 7 Smart Organizing Tricks You Should Try 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Robert Steele, a professor at DePauw University and expert in media ethics, said he believes the issue is a "red herring" and distraction from important topics to be brought up in the vice presidential debate. 1991 wedding guest list made VP debate side issue 2012-10-10T22:07:07Z

Whether it’s due to the allure of the iPod, the call of the Wii or any number of other distractions, many children choose to spend their leisure time doing things other than reading. ArtsBeat Blog: What About the Reluctant Reader? 2011-08-19T15:30:35Z

In a stressful time, even the attenuated game is a distraction and a comfort. Pokémon, Stay 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

My opinion is that food is simply a distraction, and that Sherry is best as a companion to to thought. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

From the start of her career Madonna was a savvy pop trickster, using outrageous imagery as a distraction while smuggling ideas about religion and social politics into her music. Music: Girl Pop?s Lady Gaga Makeover 2010-07-21T19:40:00Z

She says it's not always the external distractions that derail people. Spring cleaning for the soul: How one baseball wife found a way to win 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

But the films were also a distraction from the superb performance by Mr. Goerne, one of the leading interpreters of the German lied tradition today. ‘Winterreise’ Augmented by Kentridge Video Art 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

ABC called the request "an ill-disguised fishing expedition" that would be a "major distraction" to workers on its show, which is expected to shoot 24 hours a day, five days a week. Judge to weigh CBS bid to block ABC reality show 2012-06-13T23:10:50Z

When readers go too far, it just becomes a distraction, and it becomes more like a play than a reading.” And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Peekaboo, blankies, stuffed animals, silly faces, funny voices, pointing to animals and trees are all beautiful examples of distractions, and almost every parent uses them. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Cohen played with gloriously lyrical tone, yet bore the slightly pained expression of an artist trying to concentrate through the distractions going on around him. Hall?/Mark Elder/Andrew Gourlay ? review 2010-12-05T22:01:00Z

The scarcity of the protagonist’s voice is so bizarre that it becomes a distraction. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

It's just these weird distractions are happening while you're trying to focus. "I need to host": Roy Wood Jr. talks "The Daily Show" and why late-night TV needs change 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

There’s a lot of sighing and internet distraction. Andrew reveals his true colours to Stella Grey 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Four hundred years later, isolation doesn’t help to dispel creative distraction — it beckons it in. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Having no idea how to resolve that problem, Barlow embraced every possible distraction. My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

The industry we saw was fading, for several reasons, whether the strength of the product or the fact there's been so many other distractions taking people away from buying comics. Before Watchmen: DC Comics defends prequels 2012-05-18T10:46:06Z

In a digital age rife with distractions, “people are trying to find as many different ways to rethink the audience and the intimacy” of live performance, she said. ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ and Other Sleep-Oriented Shows 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

“This has to get done and don’t worry about distractions.” Bigger than “Goodfellas”: Miami Brinks heist mastermind speaks for the first time 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

For the most part, Barrymore and Long transcend the distraction factor that usually comes into play watching real-life couples on screen. Drew Barrymore, Jason Long Are 'Going the Distance' 2010-09-03T09:00:00Z

FOR many athletes, this kind of attention may be a distraction. Ryan Lochte, Olmypic Swimmer and Sex Symbol 2012-06-09T10:00:23Z

Given the conditions of cubicle work — that beige hellscape of numbing distractions and repressed misery — what’s left for a comic writer to exaggerate? Review | If you hate office life, you’ll love — and laugh at — this novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a distraction that shows a filmmaker making a bad decision mostly, it seems, because he can afford to. Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Wants That Loving Feeling 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a bit like going to the library with a classmate who isn’t friendly enough to present distraction. The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

But both recall that it was a welcome distraction from standing in the long lines in the heat and humidity. On Love: Sabrina Ali & Leonid Gaiazov 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Witty, ingenious and even moving though Hewlett's visuals often are, they sometimes feel like a distraction from the marvels beneath the giant screen. Pop review 2010-04-29T23:39:00Z

I need to access his contacts to make a funeral invite list, and trying to guess his passcode is a good distraction from the fact that I am afraid to go outside. Snooping in a dead man's house: my uneasy inheritance 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

It’s music conscious of our states of constant distraction, the voice tracking the surges and flows that comprise life in digital spaces. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

In “MJ,” the Michael Jackson replications and extrapolations by Christopher Wheeldon and others were exciting, sure, but quickly came to feel like a manic distraction from what could not be dramatized. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Asked what he thought of 3D films, Loach replied that he saw them as a distraction: "I rather deplored the move to colour from black and white." Ken Loach documentary to get first screening after 40 years 2011-07-20T17:59:47Z

For a short time, a near-total silence descended like a benediction, all too rare in an age of constant distractions. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap

He thought for a moment, and then replied that it had a lot to do with good food, glorious weather, outdoors life – and the total absence of any kind of intellectual distraction. Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z

Whereas most of us try to cultivate focus, Johnson seems to have focused on cultivating distraction. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

For example, a 42-year-old government contractor in Maryland dreads having to leave his quiet work-from-home cocoon where his only distractions are his two cats. The return-to-office perk your boss won’t mention: Gossip is back on 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Trump offers them a complete distraction from the reality of their life. In His LAAB Experiment, Ronald Wimberly Plays with Dynamite 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

You may not meet the clinical criteria for ADHD, but if you fall higher on what Lavie calls “the inattention spectrum”, you will be not only more vulnerable to distractions, but more consumed by them. One ping after another: why everyone needs a notification detox 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Again nothing to suggest controversy, save for the shallowness of the arguments, and it is this characteristic of Diamond's writings that drives anthropologists to distraction. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z

Every driving lesson with your son should be 100 percent free of distractions. Perspective | Ask Amy: Father-son driving lesson takes wrong turn 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Smart watches have the potential to be a major distraction from school work. 7 Things Parents Need to Know About the Apple Watch 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t say that this movie is a distraction from reality, any more than I would call it a work of realism. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

The themes, though, can be stretched to distraction. A Library?s Treasures, From Gutenberg to Malcolm X 2011-05-17T12:00:00Z

In the end, I found distraction in shamefully eating and napping my way through the rest of January. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z

A schoolteacher who has been vaccinated, she said that while she has a projector and surround-sound system at home, her cats, text messages and emails cause constant distractions. ‘Welcome Back!’: Movie Theaters Reopen in New York City 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

With all the stillness, many of us yearned for distraction. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

With driver distraction reaching new heights with mobile devices, I would venture it's risky. In Los Angeles, Ditching the Car for an Eco-Friendly Trip 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Environmentalists are split on the wisdom of the effort, with some arguing that it’s a distraction from getting people to just shift their eating habits to a more plant-based diet. Fake burgers will save us all! 2013-12-08T22:00:00Z

Briddey spends the novel in a fugue of distraction, answering and/or dodging an incessant hail of communication, only to be interrupted in her efforts by more communication. In Connie Willis' 'Crosstalk,' sci-fi meets romance in an overcommunication age 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

I can answer that, but I’m — I’m just — not afraid, but I know that would be such a distraction. The Visionaries: Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ 2013-06-11T23:25:32Z

Rather than getting bogged down with distractions like crossover appeal and radio formats, she mined the emotional terrain of her last five years—heartbreak, divorce, motherhood—for something a little more raw. Jewel on Coping With Heartache: ‘I Peel Off Every Scab and Stick My Finger in Them’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

More generally, distraction is scary for another, complementary reason: the tremendous value that we’ve come to place on attending. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Thinking for yourself is about silencing the distractions. “I Am That Girl’s” new generation of girl power 2014-03-14T12:30:00Z

Sometimes this was harmless fun — a welcome distraction from the fact that, this being Year 2 of a global pandemic, the actual present was depressing and exhausting to think about for too long. Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

But I can already say with some confidence that the great hidden truth of our era is that terrorism is a spectacular distraction from the real threat: the rise of global organized crime. Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Everything is a distraction from the core truths which are, first of all, that corporations have taken over the country. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

“A lot of people fly-fish for the escape or distraction from everyday routines,” Snowhite explains, adding that he often has clients squeeze in a weekday morning or lunchtime lesson. Perspective | Fishing for winter fun? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

He suggests mental training — learning how to focus on athletic technique, breathing and other parts of the process — and moving beyond the use of external distractions. Fitness: Workout Distractions: Good or Bad? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

As they grind through a civil war with the land of Loyal Oz, a show trial against the airborne Kansan is a good distraction. Newly Released: New Books Include ?Out of Oz? and ?The Boy in the Suitcase? 2011-11-16T23:05:14Z

Beat furiously, allowing no distractions, until peaks form once more. Easter bonnie: almond meringue with rhubarb and custard 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

They can’t do anything about the routine dubbing of Hong Kong and Taiwanese actors into Mandarin, however, which — even with subtitles — is a distraction and a performance wrecker. | 'Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen': A Tale of the Jazz Age, One With Flying Kicks 2011-04-21T23:36:57Z

“There’s something about a theater where you surrender yourself to a collective experience, with no distractions for an amount of time,” Hill says. AFI Docs returns to the theater — carefully — after going entirely online last year 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Pokemon — with a loyal following around the world who would get free admission to see the planet’s best Pokemon players competing against one another — wouldn’t be a distraction, Smith and Diaz thought. If you build a video game convention, the gamers will come, right?

Not to mention that immersive theater can be gimmicky and frustrating — too often, it is merely a distraction from a show’s vacuity. Rib-Eye Steak With a Side of Shakespeare 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

“So, really, your movie becomes just another distraction, a way of not seeing the truth of what’s happening.” Review: ‘Continuity’ Takes a Shot at the End of the World 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Here was the nascent population not yet known as Generation X, hungry for novelty, distraction, comfort, order, mythology, heroism — whatever it was that our post-’60s, recessionary moment seemed not to be supplying. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

It has been a fix, a punishment, a distraction and a focus. After drugs and booze, an ultramarathon taught me how to love the mile I’m in 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Her lyrics — about desire, disappointment and distraction — are much less ambiguous. Hiss Golden Messenger’s radiant rhythms 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

The passengers, however, seem to welcome the distraction. Toronto airport worker goes viral after demonstrating smooth dance moves for passengers 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Even today, Pope Francis sees no point to pets, believing them to be distractions that "take away our humanity" by not allowing us to be parents to human babies. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The walls, painted a light, dull gray, offered few distractions from the bland scene outside the window. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Avia Long Beach, in Long Beach, Calif. 2010-12-17T20:45:23Z

Prices are often a bargain, but what happens to both the price and availability - avocados? - if the executive branch wants another distraction and decides to impose tarriffs? Most of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

There was no backpack full of plastic distractions or extra clothing tucked under his arm. Motherlode: Dad Travels for Work 2011-03-23T21:48:09Z

Devices invite distraction, but they are also essential in Francl’s class. To get students to focus, some professors are asking them to close their eyes 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

I was very aware of that, and I didn’t want it to take over the film and become a distraction. Birdman Director Alejandro González Iñárritu: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope Is "A Terrible Film" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

But how many people are willing to set aside prejudice and suspicion and endless distraction to see something that is, in all honesty, this weird? “Beasts of the Southern Wild”: A spectacular bayou folk tale 2012-06-29T14:00:00Z

“We get a lot of information and distraction from films and documentaries.” Capturing the Magic of Movies 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

You could even argue that video games are what most Bruckheimer movies yearn to be: nonstop action, without the distractions of too much plot or complicated characters. Film: Jordan Mechner?s Multiplatform ?Prince of Persia? 2010-05-22T07:09:00Z

The 55-year-old pop star spent her time in a clerk's office, not the jury assembly room, so as not to create a distraction. Madonna does jury duty, gets cut loose quickly as a 'distraction' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Jokes and catchphrases have no place in her consulting room: they are a distraction, a stinky red herring. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

Enthusing about a new film, “Don’t Follow Me Around,” by his colleague Dominik Graf, he expressed “great affection for directors who embrace the distraction in the narrative.” film: Tom Tykwer, Director of ?3? and ?Run Lola Run? 2011-09-09T12:30:00Z

That blowup, though, threatened to become a distraction from the fact that Ms. Minaj is at the helm of the best hip-hop tour lineup of the year. Review: Nicki Minaj Raps Life Lessons at Barclays Center 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

In them distractions were to be stripped away, and essentials revealed. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z

He continued the work with fewer bureaucratic distractions after he retired, at his farm, greenhouse and lab in Ashton, Md. Fall-blooming camellias bring down the curtain on the growing season 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

By indulging in such detours, the book enacts the very principles of distraction it describes. Can Drugs Help Us Focus? Casey Schwartz, You Better Watch Your Speed 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

But a distraction from applicants' dramatic concerns are the antics of three immigration officers whose attitudes make you wonder how they ever passed their own job interviews. Asylum-seekers' tales in 'Take Me America' 2011-09-28T21:18:04Z

But at the post-show party, at a blues club near Times Square, politics proved an unexpectedly pleasant distraction. Don’t Despair, Protest: Playwright Lucy Kirkwood Sees No Other Choice 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

She apologized profusely for the “distraction” she said she had caused and said that her timing could have been better. Perspective | At news conferences, male athletes get to be athletes. Female athletes like Naomi Osaka get pestered. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

The news of the day brings its own form of distraction. Pete Hamill ‘Ain’t Done Yet’ 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

He noted this is a distraction from really bad policies being enacted, as well as continuing troubling cabinet confirmations. WATCH: Pre 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

With so many demands and distractions in everyday life, it takes a conscious effort to keep up with your friends’ and family’s lives, too. How getting organized can make you a better friend 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Such scenes are a distraction from both the tense monotony of the seagoing life and the deadly earnestness of the anti-whaling life. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z

Our most insidious distractions are self-perpetuated; they are the personal concerns nagging at us throughout the day or the too frequent reaches for our phones. May I Have My Attention, Please? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Bennett’s monosyllabic distraction hints at unfathomable pain, a pain so vast and raw that it couldn’t be channelled into art. Movie of the Week: “The Man I Love” 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

At present, though, this comedy serves a mission higher than distraction or escape. "What We Do In the Shadows" was a vampire comedy. Now it's a feel-good show about quarantine life 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

You are an annoying distraction, plus your hair is rubbish. Captain Planet returns – to take superhero TV down to zero 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

According to one line of thinking cited in “The Hand of God,” they are useless except as a “distraction from reality,” something we need because “reality is lousy.” ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Amazon’s Helix is a distraction, and a highly symbolic one. Review | Faith Ringgold is an artist, an activist and a prophet. But that’s only scratching the surface. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

She’s in town to perform at the launch party for The Museum of Feelings, an interactive exhibit from Glade exploring the intersection of scents and emotions, and she’s been looking forward to the distraction. Becky G Had No Idea She Was Auditioning For 'Power Rangers' 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

But this time, Tess participates — hence the title — staging a distraction in a museum based on her resemblance to … Julia Roberts. How George Clooney and Julia Roberts Quietly Became the Tracy-Hepburn of Our Time 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Together they learn the target on their backs is a distraction from the real operation that involves a deadly virus that's been genetically modified to kill select individuals. Review: `Ice Cold Kill' is hot thriller 2013-03-25T18:51:09Z

I found it mildly amusing at first—a good distraction. Naked and Afraid 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

He called it a “strange fight” and a “classic right-wing nationalist distraction” that proves Mr. Trump’s “dangerous and authoritarian politics is calculated, and not merely crazy.” Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Objects themselves compete with the visual distraction, and it is easy to pass them by, in favor of large screens showing films devoted to Reconstruction or the student civil rights movement. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

"He's a unique guy and he did a unique thing last night," she said when asked whether she thought Eastwood's appearance was a distraction or a mistake. Ann Romney: Eastwood is 'a unique guy' 2012-08-31T12:25:18Z

But somewhere underneath all of that lies the music itself, which, nowadays, ends up serving as a distraction from the chatter as much as the other way around. ‘Her Loss’ Is Playtime for Drake and 21 Savage 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

There’s so much trying to pull at our imaginations — there’s so much information, there’s so much distraction. A Choreographer Diving Into Grief Looks to Whales 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Naturally there are numerous distractions between you and rescuing everybody – the fictitious Rook Island is replete with visceral joys. Far Cry 3 – review 2012-12-01T00:06:05Z

I’m not so caught up in the distractions of the world.” Television: Common Stars in AMC?s ?Hell on Wheels? 2011-10-23T05:06:36Z

While some people may turn to sex for comfort or as a temporary distraction, these are unprecedented times and we don’t have much data. Coronavirus and Sex: Questions and Answers 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

But many parents surveyed also expressed deep concerns about the distractions of video games, cellphones and television in their children’s lives. In Study, Children Cite Appeal of Digital Reading 2010-09-29T05:00:00Z

But he's not a bad one, either; he sells his character despite the constant distraction of a superhero body his custom suits can't disguise. On the watch list: 'Ballers' and 'The Brink' 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

None of the views from any of the other houses could offer even half of this happy distraction. The frittata that bought us a house 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

Turn off the radio, and don’t fiddle with your phone; it’s important to limit distractions. Think the pandemic made you forget how to drive and park? Experts explain what’s going on. 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z

Paired with a chilled bottle of rosé, it was the perfect distraction from the muggy New York heat wave. A Hefty Steak That’s Light Enough for August 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Beau’s family sat down at the table and, as breakfast began, Hill and Stotz suggested fun games to play as a distraction, to decrease the anxiety all of the clients felt around eating. Anorexia: you don’t just grow out of it | Carrie Arnold 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Burgess’s interest in music kicked in early, a much-needed distraction for an only child who spent summers haunting the halls of his grandparents’ Athens, Ga., house. Is Tituss Burgess like his meme-able ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ character? Well, yes and no. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

Clearly, if we are serious about decreasing the overall environmental impact of food production, food miles are nothing but a misleading distraction. Eating local hurts the planet 2012-06-16T19:00:00Z

Perhaps eager to show prospective employers that he would no longer be a distraction, he pledged that he would be standing again. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Democrats like to rage about money in politics and the distractions of fundraising. Trump has been great for the economy. The anti-Trump economy, that is. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

But some posters see such romanticization as a distraction from their advocacy. The New Menendez Defenders 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

But under Mr. Johnson, Henry is under no risk of being capsized by that kind of distraction. A Chef Draws a Map of the World, With Africa at the Center 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

If we know anything about Trump’s reaction when things get tough, it’s that he and his allies will haul out some attention-grabbing performance art and its distractions. Perspective | Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

But in “Post Tenebras Lux” — with its out-of-nowhere images of a rugby match and other distractions — the challenge outweighs the reward. ‘Post Tenebras Lux’: Drama’s challenges outweigh rewards 2013-07-25T22:31:10Z

Personally, I see our horrified fascination with Lubitz and the crash as a metaphorical displacement, almost a distraction. Terror in the Alps: Behind the dark allure of the Germanwings disaster 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

In an interview you gave in 2006, you said you didn’t want to speak out about the Iraq War because you thought you would be a distraction. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

But whatever the goal, yoga students are choosing to pursue it in a quiet, tranquil, breath-focused atmosphere, with minimal distraction. 12 etiquette tips for yoga class — and the reasons behind them 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

After several years of contests that were panned by critics and many viewers, the producers are promising more input from professional music producers, more entertaining performances by contestants and fewer distractions from surprise guests. Smug?s Out, Talent?s in at ?Idol? 2011-01-19T00:13:12Z

The relative sparseness acts as suction: There are barely any distractions. Jay-Z Revels in the Catharsis of Confession on ‘4:44’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

And yet life on Luing seemed to be uncontaminated by the pressures and distractions of the global marketplace. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z

I’m sure there’s plenty more, but overall, the references are a distraction. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Family Deserves the Ground 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

You register the meaning — the gesture suggests his casual contempt for his family — but their presence onstage for the rest of the act remains an odd distraction. | 'Uncle Vanya': Maly Drama Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2010-04-08T22:50:00Z

For me, being in nature and in particular the British landscape, with no distraction, is my main source of inspiration. 'Don’t be afraid to make mistakes': 11 ways to be more creative 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

"Is This Anything?" is an evergreen career retrospective that serves as a distraction from the urgency rather than a response to it. Seinfeld's bland new book "Is This Anything?" is $35 dollars' worth of ambivalence and old jokes 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

They cut each other off in full flow, and create distractions and diversions. The Coming Storm – review 2012-06-22T16:19:25Z

Mr. Lloyd’s “Betrayal” makes us feel this premise all the more acutely, by offering no distractions from the wounded and wounding souls at it center. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

The answer depends on the athlete and the distraction. Fitness: Workout Distractions: Good or Bad? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

Really, all I needed to say before this curtain was, “There will be no distractions tonight.” Twyla Tharp on Tour: The Right to Assemble 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

And sometimes the emotional fuel is just laughter and distraction from the quotidian struggles of life in hard times and perhaps even existential peril. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

They also didn’t want her presence to create a distraction in the jury-selection process. Like a juror: Madonna does NYC jury duty, briefly 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Perhaps especially now as we round our second pandemic winter, omicron on the horizon like a devouring snowman, we need a different kind of distraction. Deck the halls with films of horror 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

It forces you to look at yourself — you don’t have the distractions of the city to go out and pick up on everyone else’s energy. Film: Ben Stiller: There?s Something About Mortification 2010-03-12T04:24:00Z

I found that for half of tight-knitters, friends were more of a distraction than a helping hand. Facebook IRL: How your college friendships can help or hinder 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

This was about him throwing up every single distraction he could to distract from the fact that he was an addict. The moment my marriage was over: 'I found my husband smoking meth' 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

While Connell is playing variations on his major theme – one shock following another, Mrs Bridge's fitful reflections, a distraction, oblivion – something darker and more compelling is going on in the minor key. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

What work and productivity coaches call “overwhelm” is widespread, as notifications, conversations, distractions and interruptions all get in the way of actually getting stuff done. A 4.30am start and three-minute toilet breaks: are you ready for microscheduling? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her latest distraction is the Glendale Community Theater troupe where she has just been chosen as the lead in an as-yet-unnamed musical. ArtsBeat: ‘Orphan Black’ Recap: Season 2 Begins 2014-04-21T15:39:04Z

Aner Tal, a research associate at Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab and the new study’s lead author, says the next step is to isolate exactly which factors lead to maximum distraction—jump cuts? Eating in Front of the TV? Action Movies Lead to Gluttony 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Of medium height, Poincaré was portly and slightly stooped, with a full beard, thick glasses and a legendary air of distraction. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z

In their different ways, Mayer, Haffner, and Jarausch show how habituation, confusion, distraction, self-interest, fear, rationalization, and a sense of personal powerlessness make terrible things possible. Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Quaker services take place in unadorned rooms, to prevent distraction. An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s part of keeping herself free from distraction so she can create high-quality work. Adele on Motherhood, Social Media and Breaking Records 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

The resort offers distractions for the whole family, ranging from face painting to water sports to a grueling bike ride up the mountain. A Carefree Getaway Just Off the Persian Gulf 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Zelenskyy's comedy was not just intended to get people to smile as a distraction — it was satire. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

But when we landed the next morning at the ranger station, the headquarters of Corcovado park, it quickly became apparent that there would be no distractions from the natural world. Explorer : In Search of ‘Wild’ Costa Rica 2014-04-10T20:09:26Z

Still, this was Mr. Legend at his most lush and indulgent, a distraction from the night’s central purpose. Music Review: Putting Ballads Aside for Soul That?s More Soothing Than Sweaty 2010-09-24T22:07:00Z

"This is an unfortunate distraction as we prepare for the new school year," she said. Emanuel: 3 schools 'did right' voting for longer class days 2011-09-04T03:28:00Z

They’ve gone to France so that Roland, a blocked writer with a certain erstwhile acclaim, can escape his distractions and get back to writing. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“We thought about putting her name on an envelope or hiding it in an illustration, but then we thought that would be hokey and a distraction and contrary to the purpose of the book.” Chelsea Clinton wants to talk about her kids’ book. Her readers have other ideas. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

The early dismissal was also to avoid distractions, a court spokesman said. Madonna does jury duty, gets cut loose quickly as a 'distraction' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

They admit that recording was an afterthought when they made 2008’s “Big Bad World” in sunny Malibu because of all the distractions. Plain White T's move on from 'Delilah' 2011-03-28T20:45:41Z

Dior may well be betting that despite the intense public interest in the Depp-Heard trial, consumers will be on to the next escapist distraction now that the verdict is in. Through Weeks of Depp v. Heard, Dior Stood By 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

And one reason we aren't is that all the busy distractions of modern life, including conversation, get in the way. A quiet word about silence at breakfast 2013-01-08T16:30:02Z

The students learn in a competitive atmosphere, away from the trouble and distractions of home and the tough neighborhoods in which many of them live. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z

Focus should be on moving forward and easing undeniable upcoming change, not creating further distraction. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

And a library book is somehow just enough of an investment — it doesn't have the commitment factor of a purchase but it isn't the rabbit hole of distraction that the internet is either. Your secret weapon to becoming a better cook costs nothing 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Screenwriter Billy Ray, who initially told me he would “reserve comment” has now opened up, attacking the AJC for “a distraction campaign” by focusing on one minute of a two hour-plus movie. Stop defending an irresponsible movie and start apologising | Benjamin Lee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Alas, it is occupied by Soja, whose rote mix of reggae and dancehall functions as a placeholder at best and preachy distraction at worst. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

As a first-generation Russian immigrant, I found it a welcome distraction from a life that wasn’t always easy. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

School was at best a distraction, he says, and at worst “an illegitimate system” that “wouldn’t recognize any legitimate dissent.” In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the third act, without Lepage’s planks noisily shaping a snowy mountain around Brünnhilde and Wotan, the audience has no distraction from the shattered relationship of this father and daughter. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Now, with leisure travel effectively canceled by the pandemic, they’re also a timely distraction from pangs of frustrated wanderlust. These epic travel disasters will take the edge off your wanderlust 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Hovering above the dancing tongues and torsos, or sitting quietly alongside them, his camera calmly observes without resorting to tricks or distractions. Review: ‘Love,’ Gaspar Noé’s Romance Told Through Sex 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s a welcome distraction for a lot of people,” Lugeons said. Those movie nerds behind the video-store counter are back — and they’re doing podcasts 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Lang’s physical poses – which never really bothered me but drove others up the wall – are now less exaggerated, and they serve as a reflection of where the music is going, not a distraction. Lang Lang shows why purists are coming around 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Distractions starts from one, seemingly harmless distraction, but quickly spiral out of control. The 3 Best Ways to Tackle Procrastination 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Representative George Santos said that he is stepping aside from his committee assignments to prevent being a distraction. ‘S.N.L.’ Gives Comic Voice to the Downed Chinese Spy Balloon 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

There are really only a handful of things I care about, so I'm trying to minimise the distractions associated with the other things. George Saunders: My desktop 2013-04-22T11:56:00Z

Really, though, the chasing after important themes is a distraction. ‘Nightcrawler’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an Obsessive 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

And as casual athletes become more serious and begin to intensify their workouts, they should use fewer distractions, trainers say — for example, forgoing e-mail messages in favor of an inspiring playlist. Fitness: Workout Distractions: Good or Bad? 2010-03-16T21:53:00Z

To get that same pleasurable dopamine hit we seek fresh sources of distraction. Why are we so bored? 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Too much clutter is a distraction, but a small plant or family photo should bring in a touch of homeyness and a reminder of why we are all working so hard. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Creating your best home office 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

She had always enjoyed the sport, but her new, intense regimen offers a distraction from grief, even as she encounters cultural and economic obstacles. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

"I get bored easily and I'm addicted to changing my mind, my underpants … I need constant distraction." Comedy profile: Lewis Schaffer 2010-04-27T14:26:00Z

Smoky foods work well with smoky wines, and a charcoal-grilled burger is the best kind of distraction for your palate. 7 Ways to Make Bad Wine Drinkable 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

A lack of unison is another distraction, especially in the final dance, a rendering of an exotic harem divertissement. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z

He was making the tune a fresh challenge, committing to it, oblivious to all distraction. Music Review: Honoring Herbie Hancock?s 70th, at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-26T00:35:00Z

It's when the vast majority of disciplinary problems happen, and too often problems from the playground spill over into the classroom, creating distractions for students and teachers. Why Your Kids Need Recess 2010-06-22T21:40:00Z

But with a wife in the hospital and a daughter in the ground, Harry takes on his new role without the usual pesky distractions, like a grasp of right and wrong. | 'Harry Brown': Michael Caine as Gangster-Shooting Vigilante 2010-04-29T23:04:00Z

The razzle-dazzle of Harvey and his wife on red carpets all over the world was a good distraction when fewer awards were coming his way. Fashion Breaks Its Silence on Harvey Weinstein Scandal 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

This is both a tease and a distraction. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z

Touring, he said, helped him write: “I find it much easier to shut myself away in a hotel room for two hours than to work at home, where there are far too many distractions.” Keith Reid, Who Brought Poetry to Procol Harum, Dies at 76 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

So I've come to think that music acts fundamentally as a distraction. Running with music: the case for and against 2013-03-13T16:54:00Z

"A lot of tricks and a lot of distraction," designed to "hide yourself and stop people knowing who you really are". Everything Everything: Arc boasts "proper songs" 2013-01-24T08:03:39Z

This, Dworkin would have said, is just another distraction from how women live “inside a system of humiliation from which there is no escape”. Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

The 46-year-old comedian-actor said Wednesday that the latest installment of his one-man autobiographical shows will explore "how movies kind of became distractions" in his career as an artist. John Leguizamo focuses on Hollywood _ on Broadway 2010-12-30T02:01:06Z

In the case of the 2-year-old, what you are calling a distraction I am calling a bribe. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

I eventually started going to therapy, but I still craved the distraction my “soulmate” had brought to my life. I was a comedy groupie 2013-03-11T00:30:00Z

In Wilson's theatre, Dafoe argues, there's little risk of distraction from purely aesthetic, formal moves. Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please' 2013-06-16T18:00:06Z

This is about as "Star Wars" as it gets, and its gleeful mayhem will be a welcome distraction to our own troubles. The best movies to stream in May, from "Star Wars" to "The Lovebirds" 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Season 2 has been a total bore -- the glitter, fussiness and shallowness of the "French Story" a real distraction; a big turnoff. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a public space where you’re pressured to mingle with your biggest heroes and fiercest rivals, not to mention the battle the seductive distractions of your best buddies and your favorite entertainers. #AmWriting, please RT: A few twitter offenses that are worse than retweeting compliments 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

It’s a clever metaphor for the writer’s plight: continually interrupted and too easily distracted, even when the distractions are invisible. Television Review: ?Stephen King?s Bag of Bones,? on A&E - Review 2011-12-10T00:29:04Z

“Something small like this — a 2- to 5-minute distraction — can ... break those ruminating thoughts that can cause anxiety and depression,” Lightfoot says. Wordle is our new drug 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

At best, it is a distraction from things that are more painful in life. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

“They didn’t want her relationship to be a distraction.” A Secret Relationship, Until Mom and Dad Needed to Know 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

A distraction or mishap – however tiny or trivial – that slams home the artifice of what you're watching, breaking the spell? In theatre, there's devilry in the details 2010-04-13T16:25:00Z

Ms. Angelou produced five subsequent autobiographical volumes, avoiding distractions during her writing days by retreating to hotel rooms, where she removed art from the walls. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

The work’s dramatic arc felt more vivid with fewer distractions. Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Desperate for distraction, unable to do anything but lie still, I grabbed a novel from my night stand. Why ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Still Matters 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

But what if such projects are not a distraction but the story itself? ‘China’s Great Wall of Debt’ Review: The Chinese Growth Charade 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Tink, the curator, on whom much of the opera’s impact depends, was compellingly acted by Futral, yet her wide, uncontrolled vibrato was unfortunately a distraction throughout the evening. Review | UrbanArias turns conspiracy theory into opera 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Like Wodehouse he is myopic, utterly at a loss without his spectacles, projecting an air of distraction that was probably quite calculated. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

When Paget Brewster, drunk to the point of distraction, delights in seeing a bug fly by, so Abraham Lincoln joyfully shouts “Moth!” in the middle of his inauguration. Drunk History season two: it isn’t quite as funny when it isn’t quite as trashed 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

One creates a distraction while the other climbs the countertops in the kitchen. Cookie-crazed dogs, blackened latkes and more of our favorite holiday food memories 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

“The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams, was a humorous distraction from the tension.  Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z

While I slurped, splashing broth everywhere, I felt myself missing the distraction of people-watching and waiter banter. Eating Ramen by Yourself Is an Antidote to Everything 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Liberals tend to look on talk of “values” as a cynical distraction from matters of economic justice; that is, in fact, the central theme of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Al-Hijr also repeats the story of Iblis, the devil, who refuses to bow to human beings, and since they are made of mud, tempts them with the material distractions of a muddy world. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Thanks to the distractions of a conducting career, he left a considerable body of incomplete pieces. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

They might be deeply troubled or grieving, and came for some beauty or distraction. Are Other People, with their cellphones and noises, stopping you from going out for entertainment? Here’s what we need to do. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

At this point, his friends consider BoJack to be a fascinating, occasionally aggravating distraction. "BoJack Horseman": Life's hilarity and pain, illustrated 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

But over time our stressful distractions lessened and lost their grip on us. Modern Love: Love, Light, Strength (and Glue): Modern Love 2013-05-02T23:38:17Z

I, smart and influential person, will tell you what constitutes something real and what is a "distraction." Against attention scolding: Stop policing people’s so-called distractions 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Meltdowns respond to no distraction or reason; there is nothing to do but hold your beautiful child as she dissolves into a snotty, tearful, shrieking Fury. Flying with my toddler is easy 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z

He only reluctantly let her take the admittance test for specialized public schools, worrying that she would be uncomfortable as the only girl in the room, and too much of a distraction to the boys. How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

The “gradual distraction” also extends the actual length of the leg, making up for the gap lost by a complex multiple break – in my case 5cm. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

She lay in the dark, with time to think and no distractions, and decided she hated acting. Rose McGowan: ‘Hollywood is built on sickness. It operates like a cult’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The vast bulk of readers turn to these pages packed with divinities and demons for excitement and distraction rather than religious instruction. The latest craze among Indian readers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

“I might watch it with friends as a pick-me-up. Any kind of distraction is good these days.” ‘Ridicule’: The French Reaction to ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Imagine that a penniless Latin tutor married to a somewhat wild woman had a son they loved to distraction, who died of a plague. Ten books to read in July 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Family is, of course, the most potent distraction, and probably the only distraction that makes you feel virtuous when you surrender to it. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z

“Philadelphia allowed us more time to work on music and less distraction,” she said. Philadelphia band Sheer Mag finds hope during tense times 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Both were at the club one night looking for a distraction. Months After a Brutal Day in Charlottesville, a Tender Wedding 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

It can be tough to see the story in “Ironclad” for all the squirting blood and the severed tongues, feet, hands and heads — never mind the mighty distractions provided by some seriously furious eyeball-rolling. | 'Ironclad': Grant a Few Rights, See What Happens? 2011-07-07T23:22:45Z

The bigger the spectacle, the bigger the distraction, the more audiences will accept in the name of entertainment. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Looking for something to cook has become a delicious daily distraction. The Dreamiest Ricotta Gnocchi 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Stuck at home in Redding, Conn., with her husband and two children, she came to see how a nonstop conversation on her phone could provide welcome distraction, exchange of information and social support. Everyone Has Left the Chat 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

For writer Christian Cooper, developing a pleasant distraction in nature that forces him to be present, is healing and freeing. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

David Foster Wallace," suspects of being the reason people fear boredom, and drives themselves to distraction, seeking "enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there ... 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

It’s a distraction—particularly when Cortés shoots him in close-up walking down a spooky hallway and while the focus is supposed to be on what’s over his shoulder. Red Lights: Even Robert De Niro Couldn't Put the Brakes on This Muddled Thriller 2012-07-11T17:07:38Z

With distractions — kids, email, the headlines — they’ll realistically be done in about 30. 5 Fast Pastas for Long Days 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

The key is to decorate a work space for attractiveness without distractions. Work space art: Family photos promoted 2010-09-22T17:19:00Z

The process is sometimes an ornament, once or twice a distraction, but it doesn’t materially dilute the still-sublime experience. Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z

Because it demands concentration and time in an age of distraction. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

One charming distraction: Morris, bobbing and swaying in the pit, was so at one with the music that he was a dance unto himself. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group and SSO in a rite of spring 2010-05-22T18:08:00Z

At the very least, putting a bee house in your garden offers a constructive and educational distraction from pandemic blues, especially in households with young children. A quarantine project that’s a win for you, your garden and pollinators: A bee house 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

But the bizarre 2020 that “Isolation” presents — exactly like ours, except when it’s not — is ultimately a hobbling distraction. ‘Isolation’ Review: Dispatches From a Different Pandemic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Simmons grappled with how to respond to the lobby — its foot traffic, ambient noise and other distractions. His art centers on silent-era race films with African American actors, names that 'Fade to Black' 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Even if you have some basis of knowledge, at least one major structural choice may irritate you to the point of distraction. “The Witcher” is baffling to the uninitiated, but diehards swear by its throwback fantasy charms 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Not so with "God Save the Child," where it serves as little more than a distraction, a reminder of what's missing, of everything the book resists. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Those scenes are meant to illuminate Bosch — to give us information about what drives him, in one instance, and what holds him back, in another — but they’re just distractions. ‘Bosch: Legacy’ Review: More of the Same (Good) Thing 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Would a possible new café increase the amount of distractions and create spill issues? ArtsBeat: New York Public Library President Is Taking Reader Questions 2012-04-16T14:43:23Z

I know what is a distraction and what isn’t.” Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z

The heavy cloth immobilized my limbs, the whirlpool baths churned pleasantly in the background, and, with no smartphone or other distractions, I was forced to succumb to the present. Soaking up history in Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

About that complexity: it’s neither a lark nor a distraction. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

As the brain matures, the child gets wise to the distractions and stops falling for them. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

And the constant shuffling of the audience means confusion, distractions and unsavory behavior — the bar access and participatory nature of the show enable those predisposed to booziness and loud interjections to be their worst selves. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Many of our normal distractions are now gone. The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it. 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Summers are the best time to read heavy book as distractions are lower and time expands. The all-time best summer books, according to our readers 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

First by unfolding amid such truly monumental tranquillity; second by banishing distractions so that you can see some of the strata on which the present scene resides. Alone in the City: a Christmas Day walk around London 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

"There were no distractions. And that was great, it was an amazing thing," Harry said of the early dates. Queen Elizabeth bought grandson Archie a waffle maker for Christmas, Prince Harry says 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s an album of empathy and reverie, with slippery complexities that only rarely serve as a distraction. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z

Most children move through a world full of distractions, and many learn to compartmentalize effectively. How to Parent When You've Just Gone Through a Breakup 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Bless her heart, but Princess Diana really was and still is the ultimate distraction — naturally gifted at drawing attention, derailing dreams and dismantling the institutional narratives that surrounded her. Review | The Charles and Diana saga weighs heavy on ‘The Crown,’ but Gillian Anderson’s Thatcher is a triumph 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The core of first-world malaise, he argues, can be summed up by something T. S. Eliot observed in “Four Quartets”: We are “distracted from distraction by distraction.” Dealing With Anxiety, Mental Illness and Grief 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

They say they often encounter ill-tuned pianos, cramped quarters with no warm-up areas and the distraction of sound bleeding in from other rooms. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z

But this results in stimulation overload, and the show sometimes feels like one massive distraction rather than a story that’s unfolding before us. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Get Down’ and ‘The Wine Show’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

She was received with equal fervor by the eager children in the crowd and their parents, grateful for the distraction. Music Review: Onstage, Young Star Reins in Her Hair 2010-12-12T21:58:00Z

The companionship and cuddles “were a distraction, so they weren’t lying there worrying about what was going to happen,” says study author Cary Brown, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Alberta. The pros and cons of sleeping with pets 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

All of this was lovely and certainly provides a fine musical distraction from the real world in Robert Longbottom’s straightforward, innocuous, not-too-hammy production. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opera debut brings relevance to WNO 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

LaBastille felt that a person’s true nature emerged deep in the woods, away from social posturing and distraction. Adventuring while female: why the relationship women have with nature matters 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Maybe because he’s giving someone a chance to avoid the mistakes he’s made, or maybe because he’s one step closer to figuring himself out now that he’s ridding his life of material goods and distractions. 'Mad Men Recap: 'The Milk and Honey Route' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

And then he retreats, allowing for the welcomed distractions behind him to suck him back in, away from the plattered heartbreak at his fingertips. "Every second counts": How Jaenicke's taught me that home is only a hot dog stand away 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

Those miscues had been a distraction, particularly when it came to understanding the actresses, whose speech was warped by wonky microphone effects. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

There is something undeniably powerful about a group of people, let alone men, sitting and listening intently — cross-talk, interrupting and giving advice are highly discouraged — without distraction or interruption. These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Profanity can be amusing or dramatic or, on rare occasions, poetic, but used this obsessively, it simply becomes a distraction from what’s good about the book. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Colourful distractions range through music, Punch & Judy shows, escapology, ghost talks, arts and crafts stalls, archery, falconry and circus skill displays, plus massed ranks of vintage vehicles. This week's new events 2012-08-17T23:05:44Z

For them, satire isn't a distraction from politics; it is politics. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Cineworld, the UK's only listed cinema chain, said that despite these distractions it was confident its growth for the full year would match current market estimates. UK moviegoers distracted by summer of sport 2012-05-16T10:44:36Z

Serious art and popular entertainment, in their diverse ways, offer refuge and distraction. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Such stretches would prove a distraction, at best, today. An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an Enduring Tradition in Opera 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Phones can enable reading, but they can also be a distraction. How to read more books in 2018 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

It's as if Martinoty concluded that any creativity in the staging would be a distraction from the musical and verbal mastery of this fantastic operatic duo. Mozart opera in Vienna is a mixed bag 2011-02-22T13:30:08Z

Avoid distractions: Criminals choose victims who appear unfamiliar with their surroundings or who are otherwise distracted, Dumpert said. How to keep your valuables safe on vacation 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Is the strangeness, richness and ambiguity of theatre a distraction from politics or a source of it? Can political theatre change the world? 2010-04-13T10:47:00Z

But there’s plenty of room for distraction: two beaten-up jackets, a Barbour and a Belstaff, hung casually on a circular rack: gorgeous, the color of a moonlit night sky, and not for sale. Critical Shopper : Khakis at Grown & Sewn and at Save Khaki 2010-07-13T23:56:00Z

The urban distractions most of us deal with on a daily basis were gone. My Icelandic adventure 2012-09-01T15:00:00Z

Trent thinks all he needs to recover is the distraction of other women. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Le Samouraï’ and ‘The Silence of Others’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Suddenly the “Orszag love-child story” became a full-term tabloid distraction in a White House otherwise preoccupied by matters like terrorist plots, health care costs and unemployment reports. 2010-01-09T03:27:00Z

Without the distraction of a wife he went on to become England's greatest critic and social thinker of the 19th century. John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened 2013-03-29T16:00:01Z

Others place their trust in the bluster of conservative demagogues, or simply lose themselves in a fog of frantic material and athletic distraction. We all got addicted to Jon Stewart: How the “Daily Show’s” brilliance made us codependent with the crazies 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

We mean that we got interested in something to the point of distraction—usually by accident, and usually to a degree that the subject in question might not seem to merit. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The instrumental colors are so dazzling as to drive a synthesiast to distraction. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Whatever you want to call 2016—a dumpster fire, a candidate for the Worst Year Ever, ridiculously hot and getting hotter—the year brought no shortage of big-screen distractions. These are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Long before the distractions of book prizes and bestseller lists, he was perhaps the most famous, popular and successful living writer in the English speaking world. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

He thinks a tour, however lucrative, would be a distraction at this point. Daft Punk: the midas touch 2013-05-18T23:05:39Z

The trick in an annotated classic is to know the difference between a deepening and a distraction. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

While feedback of this sort is valuable for us all, I try to keep the meeting short before too many monsters of interpretation can emerge, causing confusion and distraction. Monsters Unleashed 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

It’s about the notion of removing all distractions. Can Hotels Keep Millennials Booked? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Viewing distractions and scheduling disruptions surrounding election coverage undeniably impacted the numbers across television this fall,” said an ABC network executive who asked not to be named. Fall TV Ratings: The networks felt our election pain too 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Diana, rushing from room to room in search of comfort, solitude and distraction, might be an avatar of the festivalgoer. At the Telluride Film Festival, Both Magic and Normalcy 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

But he soldiered on, and his music eventually rose above the distractions; his yearning voice and insinuating melodies were too good to be denied.-- SXSW 2013: It's a wrap 2013-03-17T23:33:00Z

Stuck awkwardly between comedy and tragedy, these scenes are a distraction – largely because the story is not about mental illness. Running on the Cracks – review 2013-02-18T18:34:31Z

On the way to that window, there are going to be so many distractions — family, friends, suspects. Why French Montana Wears Robes and Slathers on Baby Oil 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

I knew this was a day for action, not distraction, but I couldn’t resist. And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

But writing about anyone but himself was, in fact, a distraction. Mustafa, a Folk Hero for a Weary Generation 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

He is, above all, a busy man who never stops working and despises unnecessary distractions. ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Harvest bounty is shadowed by fleeting memories in dropped stitches of distraction: New poetry from Jane Mead and Daniel Borzutzky examine death — in both human and national forms 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The issue of distracted driving, especially what constitutes a distraction, continues to gain momentum nationally. Oak Park may ban eating while driving 2011-10-13T02:04:00Z

In a statement, Heather Brewer, a spokeswoman for the district attorney, said the prosecution had dropped the firearm enhancement to “avoid further litigious distractions by Mr. Baldwin and his attorneys.” ‘Rust’ Prosecutors Downgrade Alec Baldwin’s Manslaughter Charges 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

He looks like he has lived a bit in his time, and has the blotchy pallor and generally down-at-heel demeanour of a man for who a meal is an annoying, but necessary, distraction between drinks. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z

Also, distraction isn’t distraction for them: it’s occupation, it’s life. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

I want people to know that with young people, there are so many distractions between social media and everything, the internet. How Michael K. Williams brought Omar and Leonard to life: “We’re all just one big mess undern... 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Working with these elements, Mr. Zapf evoked beauty as well as clarity, cleverness without hubris, invention without distraction. Hermann Zapf, 96, Dies; Designer Whose Letters Are Found Everywhere 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

But the anxiety around preserving sports as a carefully insulated and entertaining distraction may be as damaging as treating them merely as a vehicle for short-term profits—and may not be entirely unrelated. The Ham-Handed, Money-Driven Mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

And this time it was entirely appropriate, not at all a distraction. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z

People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. 2010-01-17T07:15:00Z

“If you’re eating in front of the TV, that is often associated with greater consumption than sitting in the absence of any distractions,” says Higgs. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The pandemic has sent us further down this rabbit hole in pursuit of distraction, information, connection, all the while we try to shake that sense of impending doom. Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The barn is a peaceful environment with minimal distractions,” Johnson said, which helps high-pressure sessions when “we all record simultaneously, and no one wants to be the one to ruin a good take.” ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

In one sense, it banishes distraction and demands that we focus our scattered attentions on the sacrifices made across generations of American service members. In ‘Unknown,’ a composer and a poet offer new perspectives on war and 100 years of soldiers with names lost to time 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

The show’s projections are more of a distraction than an asset; a short scene or two ends awkwardly; and a sharper editor — or is it a “content manager,” these days? — would be helpful. Theater Review: ‘The Junket,’ Mike Albo’s Take on the Freelancer’s Life 2014-03-24T22:49:15Z

Unlike at a gallery opening after-party, say, there were no distractions to smooth over the rough patches — no music pumping overhead, no glad-handers butting in, no excuses to run to the bar. We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

That road in from the airport, flat and long, industrial, usually under low grey skies, unimproved by the splashes of colour and distraction of the Jeff Kennett-era bridges, never hints at Melbourne’s rich hinterland. 48 hours in Melbourne: what to do, where to go 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

Q: I don't know who's out there doing the looting, which you mentioned is a distraction, but I do know there are tens of thousands of people out there protesting, it seems, peacefully. Q&A with basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘I’m glad we’ve gotten to this point where people can admit to the truth’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Potter’s letters to her publisher reveal that she encountered various distractions, including colds, marriage, sheep farming and the beginning of World War I, and set the story aside. Beatrix Potter Manuscript About a Cat With a Double Life Is Found 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The very serious function of racism . . . is distraction,” Toni Morrison once said. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

But he acknowledges what books are up against in our age of distraction. John Green wants you to read tiny books 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

As they see it, hashing out the abstruse subtleties wrapped up in the idea of forgiveness is a distraction from the task at hand. After abuse,"Women Talking" challenges the misuse and metamorphosis of forgiveness 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

Gowan also remembers the movie was an excellent distraction from his real life. Some think watching holiday movies feels sad this year. Others started in March. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

With a different generation, though, the new film was a distraction, taking viewers out of the dance rather than drawing them into its world. Taking Note as Dance Reflections Takes a Pause 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z

Certain decisions, such as the over-frequent crowd whoops in chorus scenes, when Bizet's music has already jangled the nerves to high-pitched distraction, could be reduced for greater impact. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z

The difference is there’s a pandemic, and there’s no distraction for a lot of people. This ‘Lovecraft Country’ Actor Is Happy in Her Own Skin 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

The scandal amounted to something more than a distraction. Revelations and Reckonings in a Sex Scandal From Long Before #MeToo 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Instead, for 40 years he threw himself into London's human comedy, diverting himself with a myriad literary and televisual distractions, dazzled a generation, had more than his 15 minutes of fame, then retired. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z

It is a beautiful distraction which at this moment in time lets me focus on a future. Cancer singer's bid to top charts 2012-12-14T15:40:55Z

A Twitter query revealed a chest-tightening list of noises that drive people to distraction and rage. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

She observed some of my behaviors: racing thoughts, hopelessness, bursts of distraction, random crying spells, precarious irritation. How marijuana edibles keeps this guy focused and working 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

The brokenhearted Crystal Bukowski proves a welcome distraction and rather adept at Tantric sex. Books by David Nicholls and Edward St. Aubyn 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, Briddey's most vivid character trait is her beleaguered distraction. In Connie Willis' 'Crosstalk,' sci-fi meets romance in an overcommunication age 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Here was my new pandemic project — a welcome distraction from the ever-burning dumpster fire that is our current reality. Archeologists just uncovered food stalls in Pompeii. I recreated a stew inspired by their findings 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

The only distraction from this intense moment, she said, was the mask she was wearing. Venice Film Festival Opens, Defiant but Socially Distanced 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Lyrics, too, are a distraction, or at least those in English are. Music to Sleep By 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Enjoying the rare distraction of a religious holiday. A Civil War, Then the Long Limbo of Life as a Refugee 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Steam trains charging past at over 20mph, the incessant ticking of the grandfather clock, the invention of the telegraph … all were driving him to distraction. Going offline: the benefits of a break from the internet 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

That was the 1980s though, when there were fewer distractions and people had more time to get involved in brooding, intricate thrillers. TV review: Secret State; The Comic Strip Presents … Five Go to Rehab 2012-11-07T22:55:01Z

This is not to say that studying in far-flung locales does not sometimes bring more distractions than a pressure-packed law library. Studying for the Bar in the Sand 2013-07-17T21:39:25Z

She doesn’t see social media and publicity tours as distractions from her work, but as extensions of it, an ongoing dialogue between herself and her fans. Weiner and fans bond at New York City reading 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the seated whispering woman at the back of the stage seemed like an enigmatic distraction. In 'Adler & Gibb,' the business of art — painted with familiar brushstrokes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some days I’m at the dentist, some days I’m taking the kids to school, there are distractions. Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z

Dance companies “tend to panic when they first get here, and then settle down to work without that distraction pretty quickly.” Dance at Mount Tremper, Saratoga and Jacob?s Pillow 2010-07-15T21:59:00Z

In her statement, Osaka wrote that she never meant to be a "distraction" from the tournament or the other players, and opened up even more deeply about her mental health. Naomi Osaka stands up for all athletes by refusing to be used 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Without visual distractions, the cooking had to get your attention almost entirely through the intensity of the flavors. At Dhamaka, Chintan Pandya Shows He’s Not Fooling Around 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

The dogs barked suddenly and Ben used the distraction to glance at his watch. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

While for some, The Handmaid’s Tale was a perfectly timed misery-watch, this show offered the opposite sort of distraction. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Like typing, Googling, and driving, distraction is now a universal competency. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“I rewatch it when I’m stressed as low-level distraction, but also to return to reassuring worlds with low jeopardy and known outcomes,” says Lucy. The age of comfort TV: why people are secretly watching Friends and The Office on a loop 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In this way "Little Fires Everywhere" establishes its worth beyond simple distraction. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The music summoned the power of clinging to a simple idea, against all temptations, distractions or frills. Music Review: Reunited, Loop Performs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-04-18T21:54:41Z

But there is an unsteadiness at times on “Black Messiah,” with the richness of the arrangements sometimes acting as a distraction. D’Angelo's Apollo Theater Show Featured Signature Songs and Style 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

I don't think it's about fear of distraction or domesticity. The parent trap: art after children 2010-08-01T20:30:00Z

It's in the middle of nowhere, you have no distractions at all. Capsula's Bowie obsession pays off 2013-10-31T14:12:32Z

“We were a kind of distraction, a traveling show. We brought money. We brought all the extras. We were a source of entertainment and revenue.” ‘Gomorrah’ Brings a Familiar Italian Import: Dark Crime 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Maybe because I’ve grown accustomed to video as a theater tool, it didn’t seem a distraction. Review | This gutsy new ‘West Side Story’ is unlike any you’ve seen — and it’s exhilarating 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Odette's distress as she recognizes this reality leads her into a state of distraction, and she is committed to a sanitarium. Australian Ballet reintroducing itself to L.A. with 'Swan Lake' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

The average person is just trying to survive under a regime of cruelty as well as distraction that is neoliberalism. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

That said, I was interested in imagining a human-like intelligence that shared concerns, distractions and fears like our own, a machine that could experience pleasure and might have a fear of death. Why are we obsessed with robots? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Idol” tried to harness this power, implementing Twitter voting and hashtagging itself to distraction. The End of ‘American Idol,’ TV’s Last Cultural Big Tent 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Or that provides a distraction from it, particularly when that world seems to be on fire and sometimes literally is? How the Pandemic Is Coming to Prime Time (or Not) 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Some were healthy distractions from what was going on in my head. My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z

“We’ve got to provide some fun, wonderful distraction for families that are at home right now,” Ms. George said. A Rube Goldberg Hand-Washing Contraption? The Race Is On 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

But no amount of distractions could stop the tubes in my father’s nose and arms from frightening me. My mother let him rape me — then stayed married to my dad 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Profit, success and victory justify themselves, rendering principles such as logic, aesthetics and ethics as insignificant distractions, or in many cases, obstacles to destroy. Donald Trump’s winner-takes-all wasteland: America will never be “great” if we continue to worship the hustle 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

The afternoon has a social feel with a barbecue, fruit cider tent and other fun distractions. Clubs picks of the week 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

He grinned, more pleased than irked by the distraction. Don’t Confuse Jeremy Piven with Ari Gold 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s not that museums haven’t been innovative on their own in efforts to engage in the age of distraction. Museum Tours for People Who Don’t Like Museum Tours 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

They provide a temporary respite from the barrage of news and a distraction from monotony. 12 board games that allow homebound Americans to travel in their imagination 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

However, they snapped the pic with flash during a slow ballad, when any interruptions or distractions could ruin the mood. The other side of concert etiquette: Miranda Lambert, tempers and why everybody is so provoked 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Depending on whom you ask, all those explicit details were either a distraction from or the key to real change in how we think about sex and power. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was embarrassing to talk about — but changed how we discuss sex 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

For instance, the consequences of her father's criminal record or the distraction of that boy with melty eyes with whom she refuses to fall in love. The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John - review 2013-03-28T09:00:00Z

But their arguments about names aren’t a distraction from those other issues. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I used strategies, such as counting breaths to stay focused, and mentally noting each distraction — Thinking. My Week of ‘Noble Silence’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

For many people, the average animated series exists as a simple distraction, tapping into the plumbing within our consciousness where reserves of affection have been stored for cartoon silliness. Finally “Rick and Morty” is back with the inspiring nihilism we crave 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

In one of the meetings, the principal asked me to take down our Facebook page, telling me it was a distraction to people’s learning, and it was getting out of hand. Why I organized a 'no bra day' at my high school 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

So about those missteps Harry alluded to: Blondie’s backstage distractions included fights with the band’s manager and accountant, exploitative contracts, internal band squabbles that evolved into lawsuits, and for Harry and Stein, drug addiction. Once More Into the Vaults: Blondie on the Music That Defined Its Legacy 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a distraction, certainly, but we must do our jobs.” Want to get into Rose’s Luxury? Start peeling potatoes. 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

Within a month, the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam had drawn three million visitors, serving as a cuddly distraction from a contentious presidential election. Charlie Sheen Helps Make a Name for Ustream 2011-03-14T00:20:09Z

The utility of jokes is that they are perfectly engineered to trick minds out of ruts, manipulate thoughts in one direction or another, a Rube Goldberg device delighting through distraction. 5 New Comedy Specials to Remind You of the Old Normal 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Layers have layers, most of them provocative and ultimately meaningless distractions to the true concern. The best new "Black Mirror" episode is a Netflix self-own that plays out our current AI nightmare 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

If it ever lets the audience come up for air, the silliness of the story might be revealed as the wrong kind of distraction. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Avoid “the fads and distractions of the moment,” as his show notes read. ‘Too Much Fashion, Too Much Clothes, Too Much Everything’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s merely a distraction,” Ross said of the impeachment proceedings in an interview before he left. Ivanka Trump will do her job, whatever that entails, no matter what happens in Washington 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“He’s at the age where there are a lot of distractions: friends, girls, life in the city, girls,” Ms. Maxwell said a moment later, while applying a generous amount of mascara. How Broadway Actors Spend Time Backstage 2010-06-04T23:05:00Z

Sex is less about pleasure than distraction, a means of blocking out the world. Album review: Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter IV' 2011-08-29T20:26:00Z

“Chappie” — a movie about a machine with a soul crushed by corrupt humans — was playing at the Uptown, a distraction preventing workers from developing class consciousness. Yes, there are socialists in D.C. You just haven’t looked hard enough. 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Reeves’s admirably minimalist expressivity and air of distraction, as if he is perpetually tuned into a higher frequency, lends Wick a deceptive semblance of substance that the script doesn’t define and the action doesn’t dramatize. “John Wick: Chapter 2” Is Just a Trailer for Chapter 3 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Are they limited by the level of distraction he poses?” White pride in my classroom 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Missing” captures the constant distractions of the modern age. ‘Missing’ Review: Mom’s Lost in the Matrix 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

In this case, clothes would have been a distraction. Naked Mormon women go viral, talk back 2014-02-02T15:30:00Z

The menus in our hands, decorated with watercolors of pink flamingos, see competition from the waiters, who show up with welcome distractions, including a silver tray of meat whose cuts are named and promoted. Thomas Keller mines the past to create something new at Surf Club in Miami 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

I feel the only way you can get through life is distraction. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z

I've been in his position since and it's hard to be correctly tender and correctly firm with someone who's just handed you an armful of their dreams – cocoa might not be a bad distraction. The best gift for a writer is a good reader ? and a cup of cocoa 2011-03-22T11:27:33Z

The animal appeared indifferent to the point of distraction, beady eyes staring far past the shelves of combat boots surrounding her and into some unknown realm. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It found there are two forms of distraction connected with food — distraction from hunger and distraction from eating. Perspective | How to eat mindfully in the real world — and that doesn’t mean distraction-free 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Much as the silence of Cage’s “4’33” forces listeners to focus on ambient sound, Mr. Haas’s score removes every possible visual distraction. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

He sees his questioner scrunched between Sunday brunchers and, you know, we don’t need the noise and distraction. The chaos of the Olympics has arrived. Fortunately, we have Bob Costas. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Evade distractions such as Richard Miles saying: "Why don't we try another field?" Will Iran shoot itself in the foot with a video game about Rushdie? 2012-06-30T23:05:50Z

Meanwhile its lyrics fling images of consumerism as brainwashing and distraction, and of partying toward self-destruction, none of which stopped fans from dancing. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z

Moore went on to list his grievances with the mosh: it restricts views, takes up too much space, and is a constant distraction from the music. Tim Jonze: Why I don't need a faceful of sweaty armpit to appreciate a gig 2012-07-20T23:04:00Z

This afternoon I was told that I must remove all the student art work hanging in the room, as it ‘will be a distraction to the students taking the tests.’ Testing is killing learning 2013-04-18T15:40:00Z

Don't let life or distractions get in your way. Essence fest adds 4th day to spotlight new talent 2012-05-17T15:48:08Z

After all, the image was an unwelcome distraction and not something students could not unsee, regardless of how it got out. A topless photo ruined this teacher's career. Now she's speaking out 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

“All this is a distraction from what really needs to be done.” Far-right Bolsonaro fires latest round in Brazil culture war 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

I sought distraction in hot fudge and milkshakes. My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Appearing on NRA radio, Chris Cox, NRA spokesman, described the whole incident as “a distraction” and a “mistake.” NRA apologizes to pro-gun extremists for calling them “scary” and “weird” 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

The Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill 545 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through April 21 The latest series by the British photographer Paul Graham reinvents street photography for an age of perpetual distraction. Art In Review: PAUL GRAHAM: ?The Present? 2012-03-08T22:17:51Z

I agree with the show's critics and those readers here who find the mob business an unneeded and unwanted distraction from the show's main story. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

But the heart of this show, despite all the distractions, is dance. Season 10 of 'Dancing With the Stars' spins to a close 2010-05-21T22:23:00Z

Musicians joke about it — warning colleagues not to look at a conductor they dislike, since his podium antics may prove a distraction to playing the music. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

That allowed us both to sit next to the boys, while offering them the distraction of all that was going on outside. What happens when food writers bring their toddlers to fancy restaurants 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Worse, I began to notice the same thing in myself – a current of distraction, like static in the brain. Getting off (line): I’m giving up online porn, and so should you 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Resort Collections are a Walk on the Whimsical Side The resort shows, which won’t end until Christmas, are a complete distraction. Front Row: Resort Collections are a Walk on the Whimsical Side 2013-06-12T22:59:22Z

Choosing an unstable limbo between the two made it seem as if both were merely lumps of swirling, technological distraction, swaying inattentively to the music. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z

Often we check out because things are hard, life is hard, but we check out easily with more distractions now. Kyra Sedgwick knows we're obsessed with her marriage to Kevin Bacon: "I totally feel pressure" 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

Yes, pushing back against digital distractions can be tough, so that’s why it’s important for kids to see the grown-ups in their lives reading for pleasure. Perspective | Yes, parents, there is a magic formula to keep your kids reading through the summer 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

If you are having a hard time objectively looking at a situation and making decisions, or if you feel mentally stuck or paralyzed, a quick distraction can allow you to reset. Need a quick stress-reliever? Try one of these surprising science-based strategies. 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

In the shadow of all the material changes that might soon come, talking about culture can feel like a waste of time, a momentary distraction on the way to a total despondency. “The Brave and Strong Survive, Child” 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Even sex cannot provide relief, or a distraction, since he is capable only of collecting women “the way you might find odd bits of change in the pocket of a winter coat.” Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

Interesting, since generally it’s thought that nudity is the distraction. Naked Mormon women go viral, talk back 2014-02-02T15:30:00Z

That was a bit of distraction in regards to me being able to campaign that from the day that I put out the album up until something like the Grammys. Pusha T on winning in 2018, Grammy nom, Drake and Kanye West 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

But people have never watched the Oscars for pizza deliveries and other distractions. Perspective | Without editing and cinematography, there’s no movies. So how can you have an Oscars telecast without them? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

He quickly developed the reputation of being able to win over temperamental soloists who drove other conductors to distraction. Jeffrey Kahane leaves L.A. Chamber Orchestra as master musician and mensch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

At first I thought the reminders were mildly irritating, just one more distraction. Hear and Now reminds users to breathe 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s my favorite way to contemplate what’s going on in my life in peaceful quiet, without even conversation as a distraction. Discovering the merits of solo travel through a one-woman exploration of Portland 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

But ultimately the associations are a distraction, which is a shame, really, because otherwise the novel is finely crafted and relentlessly inventive. Book World: ‘The Dead Lands’ by Benjamin Percy 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Political turmoil, digital distraction, and each social or economic crisis after the next are constantly on the verge of overwhelming our minds and senses. Zilia Sánchez’s Island of Erotic Forms 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In response, the White House said in August that the Trumps would not attend “to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distractions.” In Kennedy Center Honors first, ‘Hamilton’ to be awarded prestigious arts prize 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

Both bring a nuttiness that complements the apples' sweetness, and without the distraction of the typical cinnamon-nutmeg-ginger spicing, the apples are able to shine. 11 best apples for apple pies (and tarts and galettes) 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The songs on “Shadows” also yearn for nature’s peace as a remedy for a life of computers and technological distraction. Scottish Rockers Face Middle Age at Ease With a Past of Near Misses 2010-09-29T23:00:00Z

Everywhere else the distractions were a shame because Ms. Cahill’s performances were superb, and much of the music seemed worthy of greater attention than a listener was allowed to give it. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z

They let us see how hard they are working, and that’s a distraction even as translucent sheets of mylar are wrapped around the nearly nude dancers, and their magnetized flesh shines through. Review: ‘Kreatur’ Wraps Its Dancers in a Succession of Skins 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

A dressing-room door opens revealing two other performers who eventually join in, but they are distractions. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

There are no cameos or distractions, and if it isn’t a distinctive statement, it’s unequivocal in its purpose. New Releases From Justin Townes Earle, Liam Hayes and Justin Kauflin 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Despite the stunning visual distraction of the Glenn Highway, my focus shifted to the map and to my destinations: Wrangell-St. Touring Alaska in an R.V. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

While not referring directly to Brexit, the advertisement mentions a “tough and confusing” year, with Hills saying “negotiating tricky trade deals is a shocker”, and Minogue suggesting a cute quokka is good distraction. Kylie invites politics-weary Brits to 'call on your friends in Australia' 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

They're dangerous distractions from workaday normalcy or an excuse for aimless kids to break glass or deface property. On TV, protesters are faceless rabble while cops are bestowed with humanity 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Turning back to that essay, I am glad I put an end to my major distractions by writing about workshops. The real thing 2010-08-10T08:08:00Z

In the loud jabber of visual and verbal distractions, other Troilus subjects are vanquished: this is the Shakespeare play that above all others meditates on the nature of time. Coriolan/us; Troilus and Cressida – review 2012-08-11T23:06:04Z

When asked what book resonated most for her in May, Cheryl Richardson of West Greenwich, R.I., responded: “None. I have found it difficult to concentrate. There have been too many distractions.” What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Any unexpected air turbulence, distraction or hesitancy would have meant slamming face-first into rock. Into the void: the fast life and shocking death of a wingsuit-flying superstar 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

The journalist behind “Lost Connections” and “Chasing the Scream” turns his attention from depression and the war on drugs to concentrate on distraction. The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The best of such cinematic monuments have banished the distraction of mimicry altogether: Witness Cate Blanchett’s sly, androgynous turn as Bob Dylan in the appropriately enigmatic, audaciously experimental biopic “I’m Not There.” Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

It can drive a woman to the most embarrassing distraction. Chasing a Fast-Fashion Knockoff 2010-10-13T23:42:00Z

We have been told that to achieve these proposed benefits we must follow an idealistic, age-old formula all family members at the table, happily sharing a home-cooked meal and chatting without distractions. Five tips on how to keep family meals delicious, nutritious and stress-free 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Without the distractions of the Web, social media, television and breaking news, campers, who, according to organizers, ranged in age from 19 to 67, were invited to share with one another and learn about ourselves. A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction 2013-07-05T20:44:12Z

He defied doctors who did not expect him to return to work, and in his last months described composing as a welcome distraction from constant pain. Composer Sir John Tavener mourned 2013-11-13T09:51:21Z

What begins as a distraction becomes something deeper. Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, I am not sure that they care what I say as they tell me what a distraction he is in the classroom. Motherlode Blog: What if No Day Care Will Take Your A.D.H.D. Child? 2013-07-16T15:21:05Z

For those immune to the temptations of a Michael Phelps-style caloric regimen, other distractions are available. The Calorie-Packed Perk 2013-06-19T19:42:29Z

The repeated motions involved in crafts are meditative and require focus on the task, which can help crafters find a healthy distraction from stress. Tom Daley Is All-Around Gold 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Komonko, the violinist, who left Ukraine last month with his family for Sweden, where he is playing in an orchestra, said music could be a distraction from the violence. Denouncing War, Ukrainian Musicians Unite for a World Tour 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

And it would be a great distraction for him. Why this Virginia man spent days making an Alzheimer’s ‘busy box’ for a stranger 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

But this week, against a backdrop of presidential impeachment hearings, Brexit and other geopolitical distractions, numbers at New York’s marquee fall sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art were significantly down. Fall Art Auctions See Significant Declines 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Hoping for a distraction, he turned to a book. ?The Flowers of War,? a Chinese Epic With Many Back Stories 2011-12-17T03:32:15Z

There is no sideshow atmosphere, no distractions that somehow become the main event, as they do in New York, and diminish the real brand: American fashion. On the Runway Blog: Europe’s Lesson For New York 2013-09-06T23:30:35Z

Out campaigning, I want to hear what she has to say without the distractions. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hedges said he’s happy to have “Yen” as a distraction from the mania of awards season. Lucas Hedges Moves From ‘Manchester’ to the Stage 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

The logic, generally, is that removing distractions—especially other humans, virtual or not—allows people to do their best work. The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Adam Larsen set the New York scenes with projections offering atmosphere without distraction. Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Both narrators use drugs and romance as distractions from their failures to write. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Close up, and minus the distractions, the JPG clothes were strong and of-the-moment: newly fashionable jersey, perfectly tailored; thick cabled knits; and excellent outerwear. 2010-01-23T05:15:00Z

Then again, distraction is how we all get by, isn’t it? Review | Four fine actresses bring order to a world undergoing climate change in Signature’s ‘Escaped Alone’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

"We made a mistake holding off as long as we did and it just was a distraction," the former Massachusetts governor added. Romney to release tax returns Tuesday 2012-01-22T14:47:00Z

And it can also be just a distraction, as it is in an adjoining high-ceilinged hall devoted to monumental Buddhist images. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The theory remains controversial, but could explain why distraction and rubbing arms appear to ease pain. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z

She said a major challenge of acting has been learning to block out her life’s many distractions. Cara Delevingne, Ready to Conquer Hollywood, Immerses Herself in ‘Paper Towns’ 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Joy had taken the children to float paper boats down in the village pond so we could enjoy ourselves without distraction. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Like Hamlet – the part in which, at 23, he made his name in Trevor Nunn's production – there is distraction in his aspect. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z

But his capacity for reflection is a similar distraction — a glimmer of maturity that holds out hope, but is only a glimmer. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Dozens of walkers tear Otis limb from limb and Shane uses the distraction to hobble away. Walking Dead Recap: Save the Last One 2011-10-31T14:34:17Z

She’ll arrive at a crucial point in her history and then dart away for 13 pages, throwing out distractions that delay the inevitable. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

And the movies on the big outdoor screen above the pool are a welcome distraction while you’re waiting. How to Master a Disney Cruise 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Kids procrastinate or shut down because they fail to see the relevance of a task, prefer other distractions, or struggle with comprehension, organization or motivation. 10 ways to take the struggle out of homework 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

How did “rabbit hole,” which started its figurative life as a conduit to a fantastical land, evolve into a metaphor for extreme distraction? The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It starts with a flurry of images establishing that we are in a familiar world of global anxiety and media distraction, as news reports about environmental and medical problems alternate with bits of celebrity gossip. Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ Stars Brad Pitt Battling Zombies 2013-06-20T22:55:53Z

Morwenna Banks plays Effy's equally lost mum Anthea with impressive distraction, but this is one of those Skins episodes where the "issues" start to take over and weaken the impact of the overall story. Natural World 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z

Still, surrounding “Metals,” “I was much too aware of the external side of things,” a distraction she was finally able to shake for “Pleasure,” she said. Feist Wants to Ask You Some Questions About Sadness 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

McKnight acknowledges that nerves and distractions probably got to her team, but she was nonetheless proud. 45 years ago, the first nationally televised women’s college basketball game was a blowout 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Of course, distraction is essential when parliament is literally and figuratively falling apart in front of our eyes. Cat-inet reshuffles: the long history of felines in politics 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

But when the lights dimmed and cellphones were ritually silenced, they escaped, at least briefly, into engrossing entertainment, free of distraction or concern. ‘Welcome Back!’: Movie Theaters Reopen in New York City 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

Technology becomes not a distraction in these shows but precisely a means of heightening our attention to architectural detail. The architecture of moviegoing: Can the multiplex stay in the picture? 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, these are mild distractions from an otherwise entertaining and informative, albeit somewhat meandering, work of popular scholarship. Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

None of those temporal distractions are relevant to his eternal vocation. Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber

“I remember one time in my report it said, ‘Daniel is a distraction to others and himself.’ Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

The video is a busy distraction, and much of the aerial work involves too much kit and effort for the effect achieved. Two Roses for Richard III – review 2012-05-22T12:11:27Z

"It is pretty much a distraction," he added. 2010-01-09T13:20:00Z

Next up was puppy preschool, where we watched a volunteer playing with a 4-week-old black lab with the goal of exposing the dog to both people and a host of “distractions.” On the West Coast of Florida, a service dog training facility changes lives and enchants visitors 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The reality, however, is that eating completely without distraction is impractical. Perspective | How to eat mindfully in the real world — and that doesn’t mean distraction-free 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The runaway hit of the season, though, was the kind of distraction that people relish in troubled times. ‘Gotham Refuses to Get Scared’: In 1918, Theaters Stayed Open 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

This latest salvo is another distraction from real issues. Unions Say City Opera Invalidates Endowment 2011-07-18T22:00:31Z

Indeed, Margot, Ivy and Summer move between attention and distraction, outward engagement and inward contemplation. The Show Is About to Begin, Onstage and in the Audience’s Minds 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

But Sissy is only a distraction to her brother; her story abuts his but doesn’t alter its trajectory. Shame: Michael Fassbender's Naked Launch 2011-12-01T09:55:12Z

The madness of our time, the succumbing to distraction, our demands for immediate attention gratification, began with the clicker. Baryshnikov captures Nijinsky's madness in near-perfect 'Letter to a Man' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Perillo told Publishers Weekly in March that her routine had changed because of caregivers’ schedules, and that she was working on poems about distraction. Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Amazon's list of books' competitors includes several distractions -- "Facebook, blogs, free news sites" -- which are absolutely free. What Amazon's e-book numbers are and aren't telling you 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

The baskets do double duty, serving both as decoration and distraction from overhead vents. At Hanumanh, Laos is the here, now and wow 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

He was quick to dismiss the frenzy, saying the pictures were just a distraction. Building Consensus Around a Congressman?s Abs 2010-07-07T20:40:00Z

“In my kind of work, I don’t want distractions. I just want to work, to find beauty and sadness and express it.” The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

After all, the process of self-reliantly putting food on the family table while minimizing dependence on outside sources can be deeply grounding, whether the motivation is attributed to practical need or temporary distraction. You think 2020 was the year of sourdough? Look back to the Gold Rush 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

And to Johnny Depp, who in the film is both an audience surrogate and something of a distraction. Movie Review: ‘For No Good Reason’ Looks at Ralph Steadman and His Work 2014-04-24T23:19:54Z

Her views are not shared by increasing numbers of schools, who are banning children from bringing or using the spinners because they are seen as a distraction. Fidget spinner inventor hasn't cashed in on craze, but she's 'pleased' nonetheless 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Brzezinski’s wooden forms are refreshingly disconnected from the business and distraction of contemporary life. Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme

“Papa says it’s a distraction. He says if you want to worry about hair and fashion, give up wrestling,” she says. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

All I wanted was distraction and to indulge the fantasy that my life was about to change with little effort from me. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The energy in the shop brought a needed distraction from her mother's worsening mental health condition. Is Michelle Wu America’s food justice mayor? 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

Biting into a well-trimmed artichoke, without any fibrous distractions, is one of the best things about springtime eating — the joys of asparagus, peas and ramps included. Diving Into the Artichoke, That Delicious Mess 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

One of the sharpest films I’ve seen about the immigrant experience in some time, “Exile” dramatizes Toni Morrison’s famous assertion: “The very serious function of racism … is distraction.” Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Doing less with more was also the mood of this concert, making for an arena show that managed to be small and without distraction. Music Review: Jay-Z and Kanye West Swap Stories on Saturday Night 2011-11-06T18:44:46Z

With none of the usual distractions, then, we were left to contemplate the irony of so many Black presenters for an awards ceremony that snubbed a long list of work and performances from Black creatives. The Golden Globes' cringey attempts at diversity signaling was a joke 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Your task should be simply to enjoy; you will have to banish distractions and focus solely on the giving and receiving of pleasure. I have to fantasise about porn to climax with my boyfriend 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

And it’s difficult for “Paradiso” to retain its hypnotic enchantment through headphones and surrounded by the visual distractions of daily life. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Any new version needs to be a genuine threat to Gotham’s dark knight, rather than a wacky passing distraction. Which Batman villains should Affleck bring back – and who should play them? 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The books we recommend this week likewise veer between happy distraction and mortal terror, sometimes side by side. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

All these years later and Ivanka has finally grokked the fifth-form passion she was supposed to feel for Plath’s clipped elocution and intimate flair for the personal apocalypse, and she doesn’t want any distractions. Ivanka Trump goes to Washington (and all she got was dumped by Nordstrom) 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Chan is one of a number of people seemingly weary of the 24-second cycle of Internet memes, viral distractions and celebrity hearsay that provide the fodder for today’s online intelligentsia. Unplugging Without FOMO 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Various venues, Sat to 4 Jul, visit lfa2010.org CREATE10, London This six-week long event could provide a distraction from sport this summer, even if it is set in London's five Olympic boroughs. This week's new events 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

The inmates think and study intensely, and without distractions of the Internet. The prisoners who kicked Harvard’s ass: Only people who think Ivy Leaguers are smarter than felons were surprised 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The splitting of the role between the Messenger and the Blind Boys is sometimes a distraction; the female characters are very nearly an afterthought. Review: Nature and Song Bring Electricity to ‘Gospel at Colonus’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

It implies that for this band, the music supersedes all distractions. Album review: Converge, 'All We Love We Leave Behind' 2012-10-15T16:08:00Z

And the press alleges we’re not men of action; To stop their complaining, we need a distraction. Style Invitational: The an(n)als of civilization 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

In this case of insight puzzle-solving, the brain seems to widen its attention, in effect making itself more open to distraction, to weaker connections. Tracing the spark of creative problem-solving 2010-12-08T20:43:00Z

If anything, Gessen says, “the excruciatingly slow, tantalizingly complicated, deliciously dirty story of Russian interference in the 2016 election” served as yet another distraction from the undeniable facts at hand. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

A lot of that talk is a distraction and an annoyance on the order of construction noise—and yet that superfluous and distracting vocal drone is the canny intellectual underpinning of Wiseman’s movie. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

They make the galleries sound like a Kmart checkout line, and pose such an infernal distraction you may want to bring earplugs. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

A good distraction for me is a great play. A Word With: Danny Aiello: Emotional Guy, Speaking for Others 2011-07-22T23:02:53Z

Another distraction: Two medics from the Beverly Hills Fire Department quietly arrived mid-show to tend to Jane Fonda’s date, who had complained of feeling faint. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

"In Russia it is great because you can concentrate 100% on your work, there are not as many distractions as London, so I've literally had a year concentrating on my dancing." Ballet star Sergei Polunin to take lead in Moscow production of Coppélia 2013-05-28T15:42:01Z

Winter, with so few fleeting distractions outselling this humble vegetable’s charms, is my annual cue to yield more space to them on the plate. Year-round, we take onions for granted. Winter is the time for them to shine. 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The Dream Factory I had been yearning for a space where I could cut out distractions and manifest whatever was compelling me. Charlie Hunnam Is a Cat Person 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

I wanted to make a movie that explores our appetite for distractions. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

In my opinion these values are rightfully condemned, but they’re a distraction from—and contribute to a distortion of—an all-too-common problem that crosses ideological as well as class and race lines. What the Duggars should have done for all of their kids: Here’s how to respond to sexual abuse by a minor in the home 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

But these ventures would also bring distractions, writes Eller, the director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana ­University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Review: ‘Ray Bradbury Unbound’ by Jonathan R. Eller

Karageorghis cautions, though, against listening to music while running in heavily trafficked areas — distraction from fatigue is great, as long as it does not put you in danger. Yes, music helps your workout routine 2013-03-24T12:00:00Z

With so many distractions vying for our attention each day, it’s a wonder any of us get anything done. Perspective | 9 habits of naturally organized parents 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

They are bankrupted by the boomers' self-indulgent spending, let down by the boomers' complacent inability to anticipate the revolutionary consequences of the computer world, flustered by constant electronic distraction. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z

Liv, desperately needing a distraction, wants to work and so gobbles the brain of the latest homicide victim, Rebecca the Reporter. 'iZombie' recap: Going mad for Max Rager in 'Mr. Berserk' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Bribery, rewards and distractions are worthy of deeper understanding and exploration as to how they affect your child and your parenting life. Is this parent’s bribery tactic just making things harder? 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z