Have you never been driven to distraction by a grasping building contractor? |
The distraction is rooted in acedia, the ancient soul-scourge about which the church fathers knew and wrote so much. |
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. |
Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through. |
Somehow the idea was that you learn your language through speaking it, and knowing what a noun and a verb are is a distraction. |
I couldn't concentrate on anything, the jumpiness in my stomach a constant distraction. |