But for the observant audience member, bloopers can be a major distraction. |
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I think the media wanted it to be ugly and you get a bunch of lawyers together and it's ugly anyway, but it wasn't too much of a distraction. |
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Make your bedroom a snug, safe nest, with a maximum of comfort and a minimum of distraction. |
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Somehow the idea was that you learn your language through speaking it, and knowing what a noun and a verb are is a distraction. |
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A concert rendition enables more concentration on the words without the distraction of stage action. |
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When she turned pro, she renounced alcohol and cut off friends and every other distraction. |
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Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through. |
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The film is shot on video, but that's not so obvious as to be a distraction for long. |
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It works if only as a glorious distraction from the antiseptic earnestness of life as a modern-day Test player. |
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The thyroid cartilage is gently mobilized by manual distraction to either side. |
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Some stuff will automagically appear in this space as we immerse in the real world without a blogging distraction. |
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An adolescent heterosexual male, for example, is certainly driven to distraction by his hormonal urge to reproduce. |
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I have three teenagers living in my house and the youngest two are driving me to distraction. |
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It certainly doesn't need the distraction of echoing backing vocals and the saccharine strings that it has to fight against throughout. |
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That struggle illustrates how broad-based culture, popular and vulgar, is far from being a mere distraction or a source of self-absorption. |
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The tightness, well, it shows off the figure of the woman, kind of like a subtle distraction. |
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Jitter and flicker are two different phenomena, but both can drive you to distraction when you're trying to get work done. |
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They have warned that distraction burglaries occur when con artists offer to repair roofs, replace tiles and fix other weather damage. |
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However, it's gone on for so long right now that if it is meant as a distraction, we're so royally screwed that it doesn't bear thinking about. |
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I was convinced there were no lenses in the frames and they were simply a distraction tactic. |
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Devoting time to other serial publications also should be seen as an investment in the future, not a distraction. |
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This is a nocturnal distraction to accompany the bored army's vodka sessions. |
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The spy ships, personal helicopters, flying shoes and crazy laptops are a fun distraction, and the high-tech tree house is pure fantasy. |
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The sequence is silent and directs viewers' attention to the intent gazes of museum-goers and the degrees of engagement or distraction. |
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If you see sidelong glances, rolling eyes or other signs of distraction, it's time to stop talking. |
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The slight unbalance and distraction weakens the grab, something that facilitates forcing your arms upwards. |
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Couriel and colleagues asked children to use a snorkel mouthpiece, and make no mention of distraction techniques. |
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Battle was only a momentary distraction, a simple, uncomplicated escape from the troubles of his life. |
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But she seems peculiarly unconcerned about the distraction a fainting father might present to the midwife. |
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It is as if all that running around is a smoke-screen, a dazzling distraction to hide the hard and unyielding carapace. |
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The fact that the noisy little brats outside are driving me to distraction doesn't help! |
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However, analysts said that the software unit could be a distraction for Conduit's main business and could affect its break-even target. |
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Those of us who love Haydn adore his last large-scale work, this valedictory oratorio, to distraction. |
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And I'm really sorry for using you as a distraction and I'm sorry if I've hurt you. |
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To his intense distraction the delicate bubbles rise over the glass's rim and flow onto the table. |
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The theft of a water company's van has sparked fears it might be used to commit distraction burglaries. |
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Every sense and trained alarm was ringing full force and the lovely buzz that the liquor had induced was nothing more than a painful distraction. |
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It's a welcome distraction on long winter evenings to keep you from going nuts with cabin fever. |
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Removing the distraction of gender allows boys and girls to concentrate on maximum development of their capabilities and talents. |
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A very useful and very welcome distraction from people chasing me for money. |
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As players all we want to do is get on and play rugby, and the almighty stushie at Murrayfield is an unwanted distraction. |
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Now my cassette player has been taken away so I have lost the last bit of distraction and entertainment I had. |
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So whenever an overly supernatural event happens, it's almost a distraction, rather than the thrilling surprise the creators were hoping for. |
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In the current study, active attentional distraction had a significant effect on pain threshold and tolerance among men but not among women. |
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On Tuesday morning, for the first time in two weeks, there was no 24-page Olympic supplement to provide hours of guilty distraction. |
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There is a significant lack of symmetry between the two acts of the play, separated by a fifteen minute interval, which I found a distraction. |
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He also caused some distraction in their penalty box and took his goal well. |
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The non-professional cast delivers relaxed, modern perfs, though occasional post-production dubbing is a distraction. |
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His feet had already left deep imprints in the thick red carpet and the suit collar was driving him to distraction. |
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The IT world has plenty enough housecleaning to do already without the needless distraction of hypothetical infowars. |
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In a concert performance, the current vogue for fragments of staging is no more than a distraction. |
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The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction. |
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I was conscious of the fact that I was giving myself a fighting chance by not doing anything to cause him any distraction. |
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I think these questions and the temptation to over intellectualize the installation are an unfortunate distraction. |
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It's perhaps inevitable that her screen time would be intercut with film clips, but I still resented the distraction. |
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For distraction I forced myself to contemplate my next entrepreneurial venture. |
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It is also true that the government's foreign adventures provide a convenient distraction from its domestic problems. |
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It is with me through everything, providing instant distraction from lectures, boring conversationalists and nagging editors. |
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The invigorating consequences of success in Europe outweigh the risk of distraction. |
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Katie and Matt were boring me this morning, so I popped in a DVD for distraction and watched him get plowed while lying in a sink. |
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Bring along a fun distraction, such as a teddy bear, pop-up book, or bubble blower. |
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There is, with such activities, a sort of build-in franticness and distraction, even a low-level near-panic. |
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The painful cry of some one nearly having their brain cells fried gave her the distraction she needed. |
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The outpouring of compassion for the daily deaths of thousands is suddenly treated as a frivolous distraction. |
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They provide a frivolous distraction for a government that should be implementing a serious energy policy. |
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However, the cult of the business personality was, in part, designed to serve as a distraction. |
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Em scanned the schoolyard with drooped eyelids in a pleasant daydream trying to find a liable distraction. |
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Her father stands, moves over to the curtains, opens them slightly and pretends some interest outside as a distraction to his answer. |
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Having the rabbit as my companion, albeit for only a short while, was a welcome distraction from the black deer flies attracted by my sweat. |
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A test proctoring program allows students to use adaptive equipment and take exams in a monitored environment free from distraction. |
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More radical eco-activists argue that carbon offsetting is a distraction from the need for us simply to stop flying and producing and consuming. |
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Their implications would be only an embarrassing distraction, oddly disjoined from the prevailing paths of technical investigation. |
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So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself. |
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And I have some freelance work to do, which is a tiresome distraction from knitting, but very welcome income boost. |
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He also knew that, if Ally didn't have a distraction, she would inadvertently be a distraction to him. |
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Often, this much-maligned contest is dismissed as a needless distraction from the bread and butter of the League. |
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We asked the lead flight director if this was a distraction to his team or for that matter to the crew in general. |
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It's also a distraction from implementation of more-effective security measures. |
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The suggestion is that such property development is a distraction from their core business and, therefore, a bad thing. |
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Junior faculty members, in particular, want to ensure that their blogs are not a distraction from their primary research. |
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I agree that it might be just a distraction to have computers lying about in the classroom while studying some other subject. |
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When I won young journalist of the year in 1988 it seemed an irritating distraction to go to London for the ceremony. |
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This allows concentration on counseling without as strong a distraction from the paraphiliac urges. |
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All forms of bloodsports are an unnecessary distraction from genuine wildlife conservation. |
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The technical character of the discussion over degree classification is a distraction from the real problems in the education sector. |
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This concentration on the stand-alone card price as a distraction from scheme cost is dealt with in more detail here. |
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It is going to cost them not only in their bond rating but in the distraction from the major concerns which Californians have. |
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Instead, questions about local matters provided an unnecessary distraction from the power of Keys' message. |
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My other sister and brother-in-law have worked hard to provide my kids with distraction and diversion. |
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I warned of a blogging hiatus at the beginning of the day, but I'm actually finding it to be a useful distraction from thinking. |
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He well and truly was at a loss, eyes desperately searching the cafeteria in search of Kaoru or a distraction. |
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Thus, the approaching ruckus was a welcome distraction from his musings and his insomnia. |
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The music is quite repetitive and without the distraction of the aerial dynamics it would be quite flat. |
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I urge readers looking for an amusing distraction to visit The 419 Eater's trophy room. |
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Video games may have started out as a distraction for kids, costing just a quarter at the neighborhood arcade. |
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If you haven't filed yet, thanks for choosing The Mudville Gazette as your distraction from the task at hand. |
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She sensed that a scream would be inappropriate, however, and she looked to the table as she searched for a distraction. |
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Pete has been driven to such distraction lately he is now muttering about consoling himself by munching on a fine Alsatian steak. |
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The prevailing air of distraction was unfortunate, for Fox may have something important to say. |
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You know, most people are living especially on the coasts, between distraction and frenzy. |
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Driven to distraction by London, and missing Skye, he's even started to fantasise about the drab flatlands of Essex. |
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She has a lovely home, nice things around her and a child who loves her to distraction. |
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I drove my parents to distraction playing the Spy Who Loved me with its squidgy car chase sound track every weekend as a kid. |
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I love the two children I have got to distraction and they, or any other babies born in to the world for that matter, are welcome to me. |
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Since Ellis, who had made his fortune in the travel business, took over at Villa Park, 11 managers have been driven to distraction by him. |
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Most of the aircraft were on free lease from the US Air Force, which drove the USAF liaison people to distraction. |
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I'm sure they'll be driving their opponents to distraction with their new tracksuits when they get to Barbados. |
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After all, I'm driven to distraction by the incorrect and inconsistent use of the comma in practically every publication I read. |
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Against that, the speech at the Orewa Rotary Club by the man in the white hat was just a diversion and a distraction. |
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Some have argued that these prosecutions are a diversion and distraction from the real task of prosecuting terrorists. |
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Determined to make a go of their new life, they decide that women are a distraction they can do without and swear off them for three years. |
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Have you never been driven to distraction by a grasping building contractor? |
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The distraction is rooted in acedia, the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much. |
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I approach his back and sing louder, incorporating various distraction techniques like jazz hands and bump-grind. |
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I couldn't concentrate on anything, the jumpiness in my stomach a constant distraction. |
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The harsh hiss of the rasp in her hand provided Alex a safe distraction from the world outside. |
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They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction. |
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The con happened a week after a nine-year-old boy was used as a decoy in three distraction burglaries in Kendal and Windermere, during which wallets and purses were stolen. |
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But maybe too much talent would be wasted, or even a drawback or distraction, in calling Bill Gates to mind. |
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Waiting for the closing cadence, a harbinger of your distraction, is like waiting for the poppy buds to split open and spill their compressed warmth, their inevitable defeat. |
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I know it will be better with the distraction of new kitties in the house but I simply can't welcome the additions until Dr. Susan tells me they are hale and hearty. |
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Her decidedly odd looks are a major distraction whenever she is on screen. |
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Cars and trucks zoomed past but Tyler was thankful for the distraction. |
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They emphasise that it is the mental distraction afforded by a mobile phone, rather than the physical act of using it, which endangers the driver and any cars nearby. |
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The creation of a lifelikeness in art is perceived as a distraction that may jeopardize this relationship, causing the heavenly double to withdraw its spiritual protection. |
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In 1671 he and Maria disguised themselves as a parson and his wife. They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction. |
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For early-intermediate students who are still refining their music-reading skills, which is true for most of mine, those myriad of fingerings are a distraction at best. |
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A final possibility centres around a likeliness that exercise success here was more due to the presence of fun and enjoyment, than the use of distraction. |
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There was a handy distraction in the Che t-shirt the tourist was wearing while celebrating the death. |
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Whatever the reasons for being unhappy, the internet can become a tempting distraction from the heartache and hassle of tackling relationship problems. |
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Just the distraction that this kind of case creates can hobble even the most successful, well-run company. |
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Or is it that it is a distraction from the serious everyday issues? |
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One of his characters in the show is Sebastian, the loyal flunky of prime minister Anthony Head, driven to distraction by the love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name. |
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Plus a good guy like Ant was a distraction from hot heartbreakers. |
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As a political distraction it proved an almighty barbecue stopper. |
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We are familiar to distraction with the self-perpetuating logic of capitalist institutions, because this logic is the means and end of our cultural products. |
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Smiley's attempt to root the novel in a specific political climate seems an unnecessary distraction, and a few characters are too broadly typed, but these are minor cavils. |
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So her heroine begins as the deserted changeling waiting to be rescued, and goes through cycles of wickedness and distraction before finding her destiny. |
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Doorstep crime includes all aspects of consumer detriment and crime including bogus workmen, high-pressure sales people, bogus officials, and distraction burglary. |
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Pressured to distraction, Hawks produced more knock-ons, forward passes, dropped passes, passes into space and aimless kicks than they did in the last two seasons combined. |
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For self-help they started the Benevolent Association, and for distraction, played cards or disported in the gin mills, clubs, and theaters that then lined Ridge Road. |
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This four-year liaison between a government whip and a junior government minister has everyone hooked, at least until the next eye-popping distraction. |
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The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now. |
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He used this distraction to swipe at the dog's hind quarters. |
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It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity. |
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Ruth worries that Natalie is older than Frank and a single mother, but worse, that she's a townie and a distraction from his studies and eventual career. |
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Back when I started, I was a newly minted second-year medical student looking for a creative outlet and distraction from studying for her Immunology final. |
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The whole Christmas season is a distraction from the weather. |
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But it was a distraction when Marcelo came on to sing his showpiece aria. |
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The use of maxillary distraction, particularly in the cleft palate population, has allowed us to achieve levels of correction that are unattainable by other methods. |
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A spokesman for the clinic, one of a series run by the charity Phoenix House across Britain, said clients had enough to deal with without distraction from the media. |
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Traditional wisdom has it that mass production relegated craft to an expensive sideshow, a distraction from the real needs to provide affordable products for the masses. |
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It is a sideshow, a massively expensive distraction from the main game. |
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I realised I was more of a distraction to myself than others. |
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No, she uses them as arsenal, weapons of mass distraction, if you please. |
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The football offered a welcome distraction, but it wasn't to last. |
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Don't bother about the trophies because they are just a distraction. |
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He thought that in hard times, people needed the distraction of games. |
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We have deliberately chosen to depart from this tradition in the interests of getting these painful necessities over quickly and without visual distraction. |
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But it does for those cuppas you make just for a distraction. |
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While both tasks resulted in an improved mood for the nondysphoric participants, only the distraction task lifted the spirits of those with dysphoria. |
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It sometimes slips by in its discreetness, with the mildest distraction. |
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Anand is debonair and driven to distraction, in Cary Grant-esque fashion. |
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But like many others in Egypt, Amin viewed this as yet another distraction from efforts to get the country back on its feet. |
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Some authoritatively explained that his death is being used as a distraction from the current political transition. |
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Police officers are also warning elderly people to be on their guard tonight because Halloween can be rife with people committing distraction burglaries. |
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Loathing and distraction stop the insanity and music clears the soul. |
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Regrettably, its evident scholarship has been combined with a heavy academic style, and the number of quotations from other authors becomes something of a distraction. |
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The constant disinformation, distraction, misdirection, confabulation, and endless stream of threats actually works. |
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I sighed, not sure if I was glad for the distraction or not. |
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Whenever the motors kick in, a high-pitched whirring sound emanates from the controller, which is a major distraction. |
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The music throughout is nonvocal, so there's little distraction, and is fairly generic dance-style music that most viewers should find inoffensive. |
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In the absence of such an understanding, spirituality will always be construed as extracurricular or a complement to education at best, and a delusory distraction at worst. |
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This kerfuffle is a distraction from the debate that we should be having. |
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Mainly you want to concentrate on attacking him to serve mainly as a distraction for moving your king's pawns as quickly forward as possible to attain a few more queens. |
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Taking advantage of her distraction, the swordsman-in-training managed to splatter a handful of mud across her face, grinning when she glared at him. |
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It wasn't a distraction while sparring, but it was annoying. |
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There is something to the challenge posed by that dimpled orb that creates great distraction. |
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Day by day, it drives people to distraction by diverting energy to mindless legal compliance. |
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Still others see the presence of guns on campus as a distraction at best, and at worst, a danger. |
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Several NFL players, front office staff, and commentators have said that Sam could be a distraction to his team. |
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The show has been accused of peddling the kind of tawdry sentiment that has driven the inhabitants of Detroit to distraction. |
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In the past two months I have kicked smoking, hopefully for good, redefined my the meaning of my existence fit a new purposeless endeavour, now I need another distraction. |
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Our mind needs to be stable, free from distraction and discursiveness. |
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At the very least, this indictment will be an enormous distraction and drain on Perry's time, money and attention. |
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A story by Cobbett in 1807 led to the use of the term 'red herring' to mean a distraction from the important issue. |
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The problem of distance is compounded by distraction and disjunction. |
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Chris Powell admits Charlton's FA Cup run is a welcome distraction from the team's fight to stay in the Championship. |
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The Olympics overlap the first week of early voting, providing a nettlesome distraction and raising the price of television ads. |
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Politically, nothing is a more powerful distraction from the female conscience than focusing on bodyism. |
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I'm now of the opinion that pervasive bro-ness is enough of a distraction to be worth dismantling. |
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It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle. |
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The men were held in barracks to avoid distraction of their growth as a military unit to be reckoned with. |
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They also tend to drop the tail feathers when preyed upon or under traumatic conditions, probably as a distraction mechanism. |
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If the nest or young are threatened, either or both of the parents may create a distraction, feigning injury. |
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These are used for fishermen in their work and also for navegation of the tourists as a distraction adventure. |
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A sagittal reformat and 3D reconstruction in the coronal plane revealed a C6-C7 distraction injury. |
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One must be alert to the possible distraction of nuclear or cyber versions of the Schlieffen plan. |
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Many parents did not seem to bring any other distraction for their children except the touch screen devices. |
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It achieves these effects through decompression of intervertebral discs, that is, unloading due to distraction and positioning. |
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The heist involves creating a huge traffic jam that will cause enough chaos and distraction to allow the thieves to get away unnoticed. |
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Carpal bone mobilization practice includes dorsal-palmar glide at the radiocarpal joint and midcarpal distraction. |
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Tailgating was the third most cited factor in multi-vehicle crashes in 2004 after driver inattention or distraction and failure to yield. |
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Immediately, messy Olive regrets her decision, as obsessively clean germaphobe and hypochondriac Florence begins to drive Olive to distraction. |
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The demiurgic god rejected by modern atheists and embraced by some fundamentalist believers is an irrelevant distraction. |
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But the group, based in Cumbernauld near Glasgow, said it successfully navigated a tough market despite the distraction of the deal. |
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It was also a distraction to Napoleon III, on the eve of his coming confrontation with Prussia. |
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Beveridge, at first uninterested and seeing the committee as a distraction from his work on manpower, accepted only reluctantly. |
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His early academic career veered between high promise and irresistible distraction. |
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In 1956, the French military was heavily involved in the Algerian war, which made operations against Egypt a major distraction. |
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It is completely unacceptable to attempt to throw opposing players off their game by way of negative comment, distraction or heckling. |
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Welsh found Long Hill a poor distraction and thought of joining the British forces, but was persuaded out of the idea by Fanny. |
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A gull will sometimes stand on the pelican's head, peck it to distraction, and grab a fish from the open bill. |
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Her hand darted in distraction to fumble eightsies, the jacks scattering. |
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In late 1300, Ghazan's forces had dealt with the distraction of the Chagatai invasion on their northern border, and once again turned their attention to Syria. |
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Such avoidance may seem simple, but distraction is an insidious threat not easy to safeguard against, especially in today's semichaotic operating environment. |
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Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion. |
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Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far. |
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The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery. |
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Screening at airports is a distraction and not recommended by the specialists in tropical diseases because like all diseases it has a gestation period. |
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Despite the distraction of the problem of the House of Lords, Asquith and his government moved ahead with a number of pieces of reforming legislation. |
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The news of the mass conversions in New Quay and Blaenannerch had already spread to Newcastle Emlyn and were a distraction for a man who had been sent there to study. |
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Although he seemed less introspective than the rest and his run-on sociobabble was a bit more aimless, he conveyed the same aura of perpetual distraction. |
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One local resident has also objected because he believes siting the turbine near a mini roundabout will be a distraction for motorists and could lead to crashes. |
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Another favourite place is Keith the Butchers As he likes the smell of tasty meat, But the cake shop next door is a distraction As a chocolate eclair always goes down a treat. |
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When a predator catches it, large numbers of feathers come out in the attacker's mouth and the temporary distraction is used by the pigeon to make an escape. |
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The lukewarm smiles of the cabin crew did little to alleviate my aerophobia and the only distraction I found was in the quaintness of the destination. |
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