Sentence examples for material distractions from inspiring English sources

We lived very modestly -- too modestly, to put it mildly -- but it was a very ascetic way of life, without the material distractions of the new Russia.

"I thought Marianne did an extraordinary job highlighting the tension between the call of the ages and the call of the cell phone, between timeless spiritual wisdom and the material distractions of the moment," USC Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni told The Huffington Post.

In my book, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life, my co-authors and I discuss the science of this optimized mindset and how it is able to positively affect your ability to organize and recall material, without distraction, whether the material is academic or otherwise.

Several approaches for alveolar bone regeneration have been studied, including autogenous graft, allogenic graft, xenogenic graft, use of alloplastic materials, and distraction osteogenesis [1 3].

The iPad, with its cheerful icons and insistent gleam, invariably tugs my gaze away from my own reading material, an inescapable distraction.

Tail biting, ear biting, and chewing on distraction material may therefore have a similar motivational background.

Jack Gladney's rich American life, full of distractions and material possessions, drives him and his wife Babette ever deeper into the most basic of all problems: how to avoid dying.

They were chewing 40%% less on the distraction materials provided, which were the chain with ball and jute sack (Table  2).

The whole Clinton marital soap opera, obviously off limits within the Democratic fold, will offer ample material for what Obama calls "distractions".

For once, the accompanying narrative material was not an annoying distraction.

Comparing the two images allows them to look exclusively at the water concentration throughout the wood, without the distraction of cellular material.