Sentence examples for found distraction from inspiring English sources

During this long summer of unrelenting heat waves, young and old alike across the Japanese archipelago have found distraction in an unlikely drama about baseball.

Before the war, they found distraction in the long wait in Kuwait by constantly arguing: What, say, would be the best song to listen to while crossing the Iraqi border?

Burdick was a simple-living bachelor from the Syracuse area who found distraction from his chronic arthritis in the collection and study of American cards and ephemera, including the baseball-theme trade cards produced by tobacco and candy companies.

From Tiger Woods to Martina Hingis - although for varying reasons - countless sports stars have found distractions away from their chosen sport and ultimately struggled with the adoration that follows international acclaim.

It was, he conceded, an attempt to find distraction.

Technologies like Facebook apps and Google Glass permit a scant upper class to find distraction.

These disturbing questions may be exactly what compels one to find distraction in Ms. Hilton's latest reported antics.

Noone, in his 50s and suddenly alone, finds distraction in the manuscript of a memoir, sent to him by the publisher in the hope of a good blurb.

After all, it is in foreign policy that a smart president (and no one doubts Mr Clinton's political intelligence) can find distraction from domestic difficulties, rather than vice versa.

The moment lasts maybe ten seconds but feels like years, and though the inevitable explosion is, mostly, inevitable, a small part of the parent's heart hopes that this time the child will somehow compose herself, see that her injury isn't life-threatening, take a breath, find distraction in a bright, shiny object, and laugh.

Occasionally, all these fascinations converge, as in the title story, in which the young hero, trapped on a doomed Acapulco vacation (and a sorry experiment in debauchery), finds distraction and consolation in the poetry of Gui Rosey, an obscure Surrealist who may have killed himself as he and his more famous friends fled the Nazis.