"distort attention" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to cause someone's focus or concentration to become unclear or inaccurate. Example: The loud music in the next room was starting to distort her attention, making it difficult for her to concentrate on her work.
It's rare to hear anything but complaints about mail being lost or carriers being discourteous, but the mail is one of those things to which we give distorted attention.
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Peter Frankopan has argued that the First Crusade has been fundamentally distorted by the attention paid by historians to western (Latin) sources, rather than Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic and Hebrew material from the late 11th and 12th centuries.
He argues that those who think attention necessarily distorts the target mental process are too pessimistic.
They take it upon themselves to distort in order to draw attention to themselves".
The details — Dutch AIDS researchers on their way to an international conference; small Palestinian boys kicking a soccer ball on the beach — make the story salient, grab our attention, and, sometimes, distort our perspective.
Yet, these charges distort the facts and divert attention from a troubling trend: employer-sponsored insurance is an endangered species and without health care reform, including a public option, many more Americans will join the ranks of the uninsured.
The misplaced praise only detracts attention from, and distorts taste regarding, the movies that are worth paying attention to, and that may not be coming to a theatre near you.
Shaver says Santorum's message, and the media attention it receives, distorts local politicians' efforts to campaign on the issues tailored to their own communities.
Knowles could even be intentionally distorting the truth to get attention; there's been some bad blood between him and his daughter since she fired him as her manager. .
The organization had a broader point, though, which got less attention: "Concentrations of wealth distort democratic processes," Nick Galasso, a co-author, told me.
