Sentence examples for failed to distract from inspiring English sources

"Spider-Man 3" tried — and failed — to distract from this by substituting villains for ideas.

He tried, and failed, to distract my father with some boring business topic.

Smith chose door number two and mostly failed to distract me from the artifice he presented to filmgoers.

Pleas from her agitated owner, a tennis ball thrown in her path and the gathering crowd failed to distract her from the task at hand.

They have won a combined 12 majors, but their effortless precision failed to distract people's attention from the shots — shanked, sculled and a few dead, solid perfect — of Phelps, who was making his celebrity golf debut on the course where the best golfers in Europe and the United States will battle nerves and one another this weekend at the Ryder Cup.

Usain Bolt is used to surfing a wave of teenage-crush adulation from packed crowds but the muted apathy of a half-empty stadium failed to distract the world's fastest athlete as he cruised through to the semi-finals of the men's 100m.

A Carnahan spokesman said the advertisement would fail to distract voters from the record that the candidate's Republican opponent, Representative Roy Blunt, has built in Washington.

The tumult of the dance fails to distract him; his idée fixe haunts him still, and the cherished melody sets his heart beating during a brilliant waltz.

And if even this fails to distract your saddened, new-outfit-deprived soul, distract yourself with happy thoughts about how long it will be before Anna Wintour does a volcano-themed shoot, with some models sheltering behind giant Louis Vuitton bags while others like yourself mope around in oversized Marc Jacobs party dresses.

While Foote has always been a shrewd chronicler of the human condition with a reporter's eye for detail, the secret to his success is that his courtly, soft-spoken manner never fails to distract people from the fact that he sees right through them.

That never fails to distract me.