Sentence examples for boring distraction from inspiring English sources

These scenes mostly tell us things we already knew (or worse, that we didn't need to know), and they're a boring distraction from what's actually happening on the show in the present, where Tulip cradling her uncle's head while a woman walks by with a stroller, staring disdainfully, is the most vulnerable she's been yet.

"I was bored to distraction," she said.

Thus bored to distraction, he heard that the Security Service of the Reichsführer S.S. (the Sicherheitsdienst, or S.D).

Those too young to drive too fast are obviously bored to distraction by life in this rural idyll.

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.

The best artwork in the book is his impressionistic, unnarrated pen-and-ink-wash drawings of Shenzhen's drab buildings and billboards, but Delisle's keen awareness of how and why he can't connect to the city makes for a rarity: a thoroughly engaging memoir of being bored to distraction.

Does it ever occur to these "authorities" that perhaps all those little Johnnies (and Janies) are bored to distraction because their classes are not keeping up with them?

One of the most widely published images of the election so far is of Cameron boring a school child to distraction.

The distraction has become boring.

Cell phones can be a wonderful distraction, so if you need a break from boring small talk or a grabby groomsman, escape to the bathroom for an important call.

Has our digital distraction grown so severe that old-fashioned photographs have become "boring"?