Perhaps he diverted himself with iconography.
To divert himself, he wrote Cleopatra, a tragedy performed with great success in 1775.
Instead, for 40 years he threw himself into London's human comedy, diverting himself with a myriad literary and televisual distractions, dazzled a generation, had more than his 15 minutes of fame, then retired.
To divert himself while playing in the foyer, he now & then persuaded his fellow musicians to join him in one of his own compositions.
Did he ever bark out that immortal 'Suits you, sir!' line – just to divert himself?
Ledger would typically spend night after night awake, diverting himself with time killers, Biskind reports, such as re-arranging the furniture in whatever space he happened to be living in at the moment.
The history of the avant-garde comes down to this: a boyish gimcracker diverting us by diverting himself.
The other thing that Rawlings had brought to divert himself was a collected works of Shakespeare.
The SEC, in its lawsuit against Friedman, contended he diverted millions from investors to his charity and himself, spending the stolen money on luxuries that included a $6.5-million 6.5-million, expensive cars, designer jewelry and clothing.
He is diverting profits earned by the firm's productive activities to himself and his empire.
A Wayapi father in Guyana rests still in his hammock for three days after the birth of his child in the belief that he is diverting the attention of evil spirits away from the infant and onto himself.
