Sentence examples for divert ourselves from inspiring English sources

To divert ourselves in the time of colossal mastery to come.

Michael Jackson, Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin are but the latest in the apparently endless stream of unraveling public figures with whom we divert ourselves from the responsibilities of coping with harsh reality.

I know it's not top of everyone's worry lists in these uncertain times, but while we toil over our keyboards to produce your i,we have to divert ourselves, bantering about the trivial, as relief from the diet of corruption, abuse of power, death and destruction that is the current news cycle.

To divert ourselves, of course!

One important difference between the 17th and 21st centuries, of course, is that thanks to technology, we can, in the privacy of our own chamber, divert ourselves to a degree that Pascal could only have dreamed of.

In one way these stories are the opposite of the serial killer fantasies with which we have been diverting ourselves for several decades.

Those fields proved fertile ground for the growth of a thriving, bawdy popular culture, dedicated, in the words of a novel of the time, to "singing songs, drinking wine and diverting ourselves just in floating, floating".

And what is it we are diverting ourselves from?

For many of us, comparing ourselves with others is a way to divert attention from ourselves.

And divert they did.

You can't divert income".