Sentence examples for distracting action from inspiring English sources

Each dog was given 19 tests in eight different conditions including copying a familiar action, a novel action, and a distracting action.

This time, they were expected to wait behind the screen for one full minute, before returning to the starting position and being told "Do it!" For the distracting action tests, the dogs watched the owner do something they had seen before.

The next morning, back in the kayak, I realised that, however tired one feels, one of the best ways to de-stress is to be distracted in action and purpose.

Over all, the director Mary Zimmerman's production is alluring and powerful, though she shows a theater director's impatience with the supposed static quality of drama in opera by inventing a distracting bit of action for the famous sextet.

Quotations, mostly from the Henry IV plays, are projected between scenes -- but these seem ill-chosen and out of context, distracting from the action at hand rather than adding to it.

Some critics found her actions distracting and inappropriate, but men had been celebrating in a similar manner for years.

Crafting a compelling score without distracting viewers from the action is a difficult balancing act.

The noise and actions are distracting and make you appear impatient.

When Stein attended plays in her youth, she found it difficult to see and hear at the same time, both to observe the action and listen to the speech, so she invented plays in which the language doesn't distract from the action.

Once or twice, as in Clarence's dream, the use of flashbacks to illustrate past action distracts from the words.

The technique is meant to give a show street cred, but it's so overdone here that it distracts from the action.