Perhaps he diverted himself with iconography.
Instead, for 40 years he threw himself into London's human comedy, diverting himself with a myriad literary and televisual distractions, dazzled a generation, had more than his 15 minutes of fame, then retired.
After taking three male lovers, and diverting himself with the odd eunuch, he will be shown putting politics before pleasure to do his duty with the single-breasted queen of the Amazons, according to scriptwriter Ted Tally.
My friend recalled a scene in "Ulysses," in which Leopold Bloom diverts himself with a 17th-century manual filled with weird obstetrical images ("infants cuddled in a ball in bloodred wombs like livers of slaughtered cows").
Ledger would typically spend night after night awake, diverting himself with time killers, Biskind reports, such as re-arranging the furniture in whatever space he happened to be living in at the moment.
Lethargic in temperament, lacking political insight, and therefore incapable of appreciating the need to compromise, Louis continued to divert himself by hunting and with his personal hobbies of making locks and doing masonry.
Charlie occasionally grunts back a curt response, but mostly stares fixedly ahead as Rocco diverts himself by playing with his Ouija board.
De Gea spread himself to divert it wide with a stiff right leg. 88 min James is booked for scything down Rashford, who made a great 50-yard run from the left.
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.
Tuesday was not a clean sweep for candidates touting reform: Colorado Democrat Jake Lilly whose campaign was supported by ads purchased by a Soros-linked political action committee lost to incumbent Republican Pete Weir in Jefferson and Gilpin counties, outside Denver, though Weir himself has promoted courts to divert people with drug addiction and mental illness from jail time.
Mr. Hanks quietly watches him, then glances away and tries to divert attention with a wisecrack.
