Someone who would listen and give me space to grieve rather than deflect my pain or write it off by telling me my sons could adopt children or that being gay isn't a big deal.
When the crisis hit, the government deflected the pain, at least until after the election.
She moves through school briskly, deflecting the pain as two more-favored siblings arrive, by moving in with her grandparents.
Trying to make her laugh if she hurts herself, or to deflect your own pain if you hurt yourself.
As bad as the sequester was, it is being made worse by these special-interest demands for exceptions, as well as politically motivated attempts to deflect the responsibility for pain.
This isn't to deflect or ignore the pain and suffering of the victims of crimes, and their families.
Even our defense was turned into offense, as well-conditioned shins and forearms could not only deflect blows but cause pain to our attackers.
Under Sean Daniels's direction, he neither indulges his pain nor deflects it into irony.
It pulses in a transformed political landscape: in an energized, grass-roots Republican Party; in the first Republican Congress in a half-century; and in a Democratic Party still at pains to deflect and defuse Republican dominance.
Psychotherapy should include established methods of coping with pain and deflecting attention, 35 other problem-solving strategies, 36 and cognitive behavioral therapy.
The propensity to refer to "everything", even in cases with specific known goals, might inadvertently promote futile attempts to prolong life and deflect attention away from patients' pain and suffering.
