You might have preferred to be pleasantly distracted Monday by the National League Most Valuable Player award going to Cincinnati's Joey Votto.
Here in Tokyo, Japan's business capital, many companies — whether Japanese or foreign — were distracted Wednesday by plans for removing their employees from the potential path of radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 140 miles north.
As Arthur escapes from the Piper with Sir Thursday, he distracts Thursday enough for the fourth part of the Will, a snake embodying the virtue of justice, to break free, whereupon it makes Arthur the Bearer of the Fourth Key – a sword or baton depending on whether or not the wielder is in combat – and Commander of the Glorious Army of the Architect.
What I didn't expect is that while we are distracted by day to day life with kids, parenthood sneaks in and bulldozes half the stuff we used to think mattered.
Mudhafer was at first distracted, because Sunday was the day an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush, and our Western correspondents were continuously calling Mudhafer's cellphone to ask what it all meant.
Gore was distracted that day, probably hungover.
Images that lay dormant in the distracting light of day, but return when you're horizontal and staring at the back of your eyelids in complete darkness, tossing you from side to side.
We've all got them images that lay dormant in the distracting light of day, but return when you're horizontal and staring at the back of your eyelids in complete darkness, tossing from side to side.
Was I the only one who was distracted during Thursday night's show by the tacky product placement?
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers' former side were a shadow of themselves - distracted by Sunday's Capital One Cup final at Wembley - as they were dispatched 5-0 Anfieldeld.
Sharapova, distracted on Tuesday to the point where four games went by without moving off zero on the scoreboard, was more focused on Wednesday.
