To get in the habit of deep, distraction-free conversations, create a pack of conversation starters to use when you have downtime together.
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.
This may read like a prescription drug ad, but friendships can lead to: deep emotional distraction, feeling conflicted between role of friend and formal role (for individuals); lower quality group decision making on complex tasks (for teams); the formation of cliques and silos, reducing communication, and perceptions of favoritism (for departments and organizations).
This gets at a deeper truth: distraction isn't technology.
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.
McDonald, who did not return phone calls Wednesday, said "deep frustration about the distraction" caused by the Komen headquarters' actions was a factor, a statement on the affiliate's Web site said.
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.
