Sentence examples for gripping distraction from inspiring English sources
For a Sunday at least, the N.F.L. served its purest purpose as entertainment vehicle, serving as a gripping distraction for anyone with a taste for football and a need to escape from storm-related calamity, election fatigue or the overwhelming desire to throw eggs at a mayor.
Alternatively, my need to see messages on my phone could prove something else: that "Driven to Distraction at Work" is insufficiently gripping.
Gripping, gripping stuff.
New Scientist described the first half of the book as "a gripping, original tale", but complained that in the second half Bear over-complicates the story with "too many ideas, images, mythologies and distractions".
"I call it, for the lack of a better term, distraction therapy," he said, "meaning that instead of letting them get caught up in paranoia or gripped by fear, you try to distract them with another thought".
Conspiracy theories about American motives abound, providing some distraction but doing little to ease the paralysis that has gripped people like Basir and his family.
It gripped and fascinated.
Impending fatherhood could bring joy to the rest of the Cup garage, which is desperate for any distraction that could loosen Johnson's grip on the championship.
