Sentence examples for a distracting effect from inspiring English sources

A retired game official, Tony Veteri, who now helps the Jets pay attention to the rules when they practice, said that winter weather can have a distracting effect on players "The guys are more interested in keeping warm than in the game," he said.

Frequent clinico-radiological contacts have been shown to have a significant positive influence on clinical diagnosis and further patient management; these are best undertaken through formal clinico-radiological conferences [34], but are often informal, and can have a distracting effect when they interfere with other, ongoing work.

On a more consistently heavy, D&B leaning track with a higher BPM, I found it to have a distracting effect that quickly felt quite silly, as if Woody Woodpecker had taken a fancy to me.

Jon Latham says the Olympics seemed to have a "distracting effect" on donors aged 17-18 with a marked decline during and after the Games.

In considering such a dynamic picture, it must also be borne in mind that the degradosome might be generally busy with processing tRNA and rRNA, thereby limiting its availability for mRNA decay [90]; perhaps such a distracting effect may potentially link degradative activity with cellular growth conditions.

The documentary sometimes gets on a jag of cutting back and forth between eccentric camera angles and symbolic still life a lamp, a teacup to distracting effect.

The documentary sometimes gets on a jag of cutting back and forth between eccentric camera angles and symbolic still life — a lamp, a teacup — to distracting effect.

It's a magical, sometimes distracting effect: at the start of the film, when the characters first move through the painted canvas of the revolution, we are instantly taken to another, visually and emotionally heightened world.

Add to that, the fact that going "nordo" out of radio contact should have launched a homeland security alert and new concerns about the distracting effect of the personal electronic devices in all sorts of transportation modes and, well, the cliché "perfect storm" does come to mind.

Type A distractors (based on the recency effect) demonstrated the strongest distracting effect across item types and proficiency levels, resulting in the highest percentages of incorrect responses as well as the highest average examinee ability who selected this distractor.

In theory this foray into crowdsourcing allowed the audience a degree of input in the presentation of the piece; in practice it was mostly a mess, with random, unilluminating quick cuts among clips and the distracting effect of all those red laser points.