The author sometimes leans too much on distracting back story; but what finally emerges is an original tale that earns its readers' trust, and breaks their hearts a little in the process.
But the real winners of the night were the ones who stripped out the production and distracting back up dancers for raw, simple performances.
Fans leave wondering how Willie Randolph can pull this distracted team back together.
I'm worried and distracted, schlepping back and forth from the Rapid City library and home and the post office.
Coalition strategists are sure that Britain's shock Brexit vote will lure disillusioned and distracted voters back to the party usually seen as more capable economic managers.
As I got older, I came around to the idea of family walks because of their power to stitch a scattered or distracted family back together for a time.
"I just sort of – poof – exploded…" "Lost what?" I asked, distracted, thinking back through what I knew of Blythe – her endless photos and reviews complete with Gifs and links, which I now realised must have taken hours to write.
Mr. Colbert's skits and stunts — a mock stint in basic training, a haircut administered by Gen. Ray Odierno (ordered, jokingly, by President Obama via a pretaped message) — were designed to hold the attention of easily distracted audiences back home.
Not only did I click too many times when I shouldn't have, and occasionally vice versa, but subtle shifts in my head movements, tracked by the device's motion detector, suggested that I tended to shift attention states, from on-task to impulsive to distracted and back.
