Sentence examples for distracting appearance from inspiring English sources

#auspol February 12 , 20146.12am GMT In the near calamity that was Question Time and the always distracting appearance of Palmer at the press club the launch of the Closing the Gap report seems a lifetime ago.

Also, check that there's nothing distracting about your appearance, for instance, a piece of clothing that has a small stain, a button missing, shoes that need re-heeling, or an accessory that would have benefited from being more carefully chosen.

Make sure there's nothing distracting about your appearance.

His strutting appearance was distracting, like a gaudy stage set.

She is meant to be a diva, a toy of higher quality, but her oddly unconvincing appearance is distracting.

I tried to dismiss my suspicions by distracting myself with her appearance.

Now his lawyers are regularly distracted by the appearance of ICE officers.

The emperor Constantius II (reigned 337 361) conducted the war weakly, but Shāpūr was distracted by the appearance of a new enemy, the nomadic Chionites, on his eastern frontier.

Ensure you select fitting the same or similar ranges, as mismatched furniture may distract from the appearance of the room.

Mr. Ma said he had considered using a hardy carbon-fiber cello, but rejected the idea to avoid distracting viewers with its unorthodox appearance.

Is this all so much theatre, designed to give the appearance of security, while actually distracting attention and funding from other more useful ways of keeping bombs and bad people off planes?