Sentence examples for divert herself from inspiring English sources

To divert herself from the pain, she casts her mind back into the past.

Why does a writer have to divert herself, pray for interruptions or devise them herself?

Then, during a writing course she was taking to divert herself from the pain, all those childhood images suddenly unspooled across the page.

Jurgensen has suffered a great deal without becoming calcified, or pious, in part because she has an enormous capacity for diverting herself with small pleasures.

It began a couple of years ago with Jenny Uglow's wonderful biography of the 18th-century engraver Thomas Bewick, whose History of British Birds is the book with which the 10-year-old Jane Eyre diverts herself behind the curtains at Gateshead Hall, until it is hurled at her head by her odious cousin.

Clearly, Representative Pelosi was doing some diverting herself.

Fadwa diverts herself from her responsibilities with flights of fancy, imagining she is hosting the cooking show that gives the play its title.

Rather than housing it in some anonymous sleeve, the album is wrapped in what looks like an homage to king of 80s softcore/noncore design, Patrick Nagel: a pensively gazing, lipsticked woman diverts herself from giving us her full attention.

In the therapeutic relationship when a patient/client deceives her psychotherapist, she undermines her investment of time and money, and diverts herself from the path of authenticity and progress to travel the treacherous road of deception and duplicity.

To divert criticism from herself, Woodhull published a denunciation of Beecher in 1872 saying that he practiced free love in private while speaking out against it from the pulpit.

But she loved it," Rocos says, adding that the venue was packed, but the presence of Mercury, Everett and herself helped divert attention from Diana so that she could order drinks at the bar.