Sentence examples for deep distraction from inspiring English sources

In closed enforcement proceedings, S.E.C. officials said, he could obsess over seemingly obscure points, driving an already overworked enforcement staff of the commission to deep distraction -- much of it, in the minds of some officials, unnecessary.

In fact, the unforced way in which he manages the not inconsiderable structural difficulties and the constant switches of mood between the deepest distraction and a lightheartedness which can only be properly described by the word allegría, testifies to a supreme degree of both aesthetic and moral assurance.

Or consider the novels of Hemingway, steeped in a postwar bleakness so deep that distraction alone holds despair at bay — a condition with which Singer's survivors, a truly lost generation, are intimately acquainted.

Cottrell Boyce had wanted for ages to spread the gospel of getting people to read for the sheer pleasure of it, pleasure in a deeper sense than distraction from life's chores and bores or simple fun.

But many parents surveyed also expressed deep concerns about the distractions of video games, cellphones and television in their children's lives.

Now the universal craving that hotels seek to satisfy is for something considerably more urgent: a night of true, deep shuteye, with no distractions.

The 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision this month is a well-deserved feel-good moment for civil rights strategists, but it is only a temporary distraction from the deep conflicts that remain.

The combination of open plan office design and email has shattered people's capacity to focus on deep work with constant interruption, distraction and lack of freedom and choice.

Besides, we studied the morphological changes via light microscopy and electroscopy detection and the extracellular matrix alterations via histochemical methods of the deep fascia in the same distraction regimens as this biomechanical study [ 19, 20].

For Shields and other critics of plot, narrative is a distraction from "the deeper drama" of epiphanies and overt meditation.

Packed three deep, they ignore the festive distractions just outside the five puppeteers clad in gold-trimmed lion costumes, the crash of cymbals and gongs from a ceremonial quartet and bet $40 a hand or more on whether players at the table will win or lose.