Sentence examples for a happy distraction from inspiring English sources

Obs You live on a farm in Leitrim: is the farm a happy distraction or an annoyance to you as a writer?

Their close collaboration on the project becomes a happy distraction from their unsettled lives—Harriet's special-forces boyfriend is missing on tour and Fred's workaholic wife has moved to Geneva and a neat set-up for the romantic narrative.

Kmart's retro rebrand, then, offered a kind of time travel: the race through the aisles, the register's ring, the unfurling of a long, coupon-laden receipt these were all happy distractions from economic insecurity and a polarized Presidential election that could be explained, in part, by the dynamics that had brought the chain, however smilingly, to its knees.

The reduced dlPFC activity shown in the violent offenders during anger as well as happy distraction might indicate a general top-down problem resulting in impaired cognitive control of emotions.

This year, instead of the inevitable post holiday blues, brought on by a severe sugar and television come down, I have the happy distraction of the imminent arrival of Sundance.

But patients like David C. Gerli, 89, say they love the view and the happy distraction.

I wasn't consciously seeking out the happy distractions of ROFL material, but after the usual flitting around, I paused on a post on HipsterRunoff.com, titled "Keut Hipster Girl Watches White Guy Beat Up Black Guy on Public Bus". HipsterRunoff frequently comments on Web culture in the texting-speak patois of an idiot-savant "author" named Carles.

When you're ready find a happy place without distractions and write your answers down.

With respect to regulation of happy stories [condition (happy-distraction versus happy-engagement) x group (VOF versus NOC ], also showed significant activation in the left PCC, and left dlPFC (Table 1).

Therefore, the applied general linear model included 10 predictors: anger-engagement, anger-distraction, happy-engagement, happy-distraction, neutral-engagement, neutral-distraction, sound fragments during engagement, sound fragments during distraction, visual analogue scale rating during engagement and visual analogue scale rating during distraction.

If you avoid distractions and stare ahead with a happy, or at least neutral look on your face, then the boy is more likely to notice you.