Sentence examples for happy diversion from inspiring English sources

After an autumn of dismaying news about budget cuts and Austerity Britain, the engagement provided an all-purpose happy diversion.

A work of flossy showbiz craftsmanship rather than artistry, "Damn Yankees" has little more on its mind than happy diversion.

The poems often feel like the by-products of the happy diversion they provided their author while he was writing them, an effect most striking when it seems least intended.

It's not likely that we'll have another occasion to hear this feisty comic actress give a dramatic reading of King Lear's famous speech beginning "O, reason not the need!" True, in context it makes no sense, but it's still a happy diversion from contemplating the flaws in Ms. Smith Metzler's play.

Just like how IBM has Watson's sights set on helping out the healthcare industry (I love how healthcare is treated an industry, like it's a giant widget factory), Sony wants to expand the raw power of the PS3 and Move into fields where it can actually be helpful and not simply a happy diversion.

And besides, with so many other happy diversions, who needs baseball anyway?

(By organic, what's meant is that song and dance seem to arise naturally from the plot and to advance it, rather than serving as happy diversions.) Song seemed as natural as conversation; dance, as inevitable and essential as breathing.

For the dog or cat of independent wealth, New York has long offered any number of happy diversions, from grooming salons to spas to charm schools (also known as obedience training classes).

Among recent happy diversions were Ben Fountain's "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," Junot Díaz's "This Is How You Lose Her," Cheryl Strayed's "Wild" and the poet Jeet Thayil's first novel, "Narcopolis," about the drug-hazed Bombay of the 1980s.

Flanking "Deep Song" came two happier pieces, "Diversion of Angels" (1948) and "Acts of Light" (1981).

Joking around in their tracksuits, they seem happy for the diversion.