Sentence examples for find diversion from inspiring English sources

Admittedly, this was part of the long Bastille Day weekend and the route did run close to a major centre of population – Lyon – but it was hard not to see this as partly a largely silent statement of faith in the French summer in spite of Thursday night's events, partly perhaps a need to escape and find diversion in this venerable institution.

While you're wrapping your mind around this big, questionable idea, you can find diversion in an improbable blend of behind-the-scenes satire and art-house fright-fest, anchored by Willem Dafoe's creepy, comical and oddly moving performance as the blood-sucking Schreck.

Students find diversion in clubs sponsored by the MSM and in university-wide intramural sports.

Here, he finds diversion and distraction from his research programme in a cell-biology lab at the University of Warwick.

In its intermissionless presence one finds diversion; afterward, a yearning for the art, passion and sinew of Dickens's words.

He finds diversion in a horse, one "owned" by his driver, Gus Demitriou Dennis Farinaa), because cons can't own horses.

Buchanan found diversion in translating Euripides' Medea and Alcestis into Latin and in writing original dramas e.g., Baptistes (1534) and Jepthes (1578)—attacking tyranny.

The State Commission of Investigation, in a report released last week, said a three-year investigation found diversion of funds for personal use in 6 of the 18 Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New Jersey that it examined.

He seldom reads much except scientific publications and says he "hates" sports but finds diversion mainly in late-night television movies that he watches while the computer is turning out calculations.

Phil Daoust Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Based on his own experiences with the Crown Film Unit during the second world war, John Mortimer's debut features a nameless narrator who gets a job on an army training film, is disappointed to learn that his title of "assistant director" is a euphemism for general dogsbody, but soon finds diversion in investigating a mysterious death.

In the meantime, you have to find some diversion.