Seconds later, though, he is distracted by the water safety issue: there is no fence around the waterfront.
It sees you racing against a host of other boats, trying not to get distracted by the spangly water effects.
But since Egypt, the biggest and most influential consumer of Nile water, is distracted by revolutionary upheaval at home, this may be changing.
When you get your ants, to try and get them to be less aggressive while you get your queen, keep them distracted with sugar and water, just make sure not to use too much!
In one of those company-wide retrenchment or downsizing conference calls that are like the cruel ceremonies that accompany the defeat of nations, Armstrong, as he admonished his troops and cast great blame on the waters, was distracted by someone with a camera.
Britten's clarinets in "Die Forelle," for example, flashed repeatedly across the scene like sunlight on water, distracting from the trout's death-throes in the text.
"Directed" attention allows us to concentrate on work, reading and tests, while "involuntary" attention takes over when we're distracted by things like running water, crying babies, a beautiful view or a pet that crawls onto our lap.
It might be a little surprised and maybe even cry, but keep the energy positive and light and it will be too distracted by how ill the water is to freak out.
The dreadful combination of hack politics and hardcore extremism which marks Beltway political culture spun up a far bigger distraction in itself than any of the multiple distractions that have so roiled geopolitical waters lately and distracted from the Asia-Pacific Pivot.
Later, while refilling a water glass, he became so distracted by a pair of acquaintances that he poured the water directly on the table.
