Sentence examples for distracted person from inspiring English sources

One did not accept testimony from "a distracted person or of a possessed person in a case of murder, theft, felony of any sort, then neither may we do it in the case of witchcraft".

It took seven calls to reach a human being, and though we dropped the name of one member of our group, a well-known columnist for The New York Times, our impression was that the distracted person on the other end of the line gave us a reservation for a different reason: we were willing to dine at 10 p.m.

However, the broadened frequency tuning observed in the PMP exposed subjects could already compromise everyday performance under certain distracted conditions – in the worst case, a distracted person with broadened frequency tuning might miss another person's warning call regarding an approaching car in a noisy traffic situation.

In the show at Paul Kasmin a new bronze piece called "And Then (I Close My Eyes)" features what may be "a distracted meditating person" from our own culture, Mr. Cemin said, or "an imperfect Buddha".

To have this April fools trick to work, try to have the person distracted and once the person turns back around let her rip.

However, the skeptical scientists believe the strength of the smell itself can "distract" the person from the pain of the headache, hence making the person believe that the headache has gone.

Psychological studies have revealed, after all, that if you distract a person from a boring chore, time seems to pass much faster.

All the anxious striving and bad memories and fumbled promises and frantic intellectualizing and whatever else distracts a person from the business of breathing in and out on Earth: it abates, at least for the duration of the song.

Muslim scholars tend to place chess, a skill-based game, in a different category from games of chance, such as dice, but frown upon it if it distracts a person from performing the five daily prayers.

The less they know about a user, Horvitz notes, the fewer assumptions they should make about his or her needs, to avoid distracting the person with unnecessary or even misguided suggestions.

In the view of Horvitz's team, this aging interface has allowed a deluge of electronic interruptions to cascade upon office workers with each new generation of technology, to the point that the telephone and potentially dozens of computer programs are now free to distract a person with impunity.