In these circumstances, it is often mild distraction that moves the imagination forward, not uninterrupted concentration.
Oh, yeh, you don't need to... "The newspaper is merely a timing device and mild distraction, it's the internal/ external sauna combination that really counts".
Or just a mild distraction from a life of confinement; the equivalent of a child at the zoo, come to visit the great, lonely lion?
Whether Pachta's "footballers" really count as robots is debatable: containing no mechanical parts, the weighted inflatable cylinders simply wobble in the breeze, providing a mild distraction.
His belated follow-up Almost Christmas (Arrow, 15) is merely a mild distraction, starring the reliably woebegone Paul Giamatti as an ex-con chasing a not-so-quick buck by selling fir trees at peak yuletide.
A member of the organization said that other veteran players had made it clear they wanted the issue, a mild distraction with potential to become something more damaging, to go away.
While Moonrise Kingdom is by no means the worst picture to open Cannes in recent years (that honour falls to My Blueberry Nights), it remains resolutely inconsequential, a mild distraction.
On the nights I visited, oddly chewy Parmesan crisps were a mild distraction from an otherwise exemplary tortellini with airy white bean filling and a simple, gorgeous breakdown of Sungold tomatoes.
It's succeeding at providing relatively cheap forms of mild distraction for ever-larger masses of fashion-conscious people whose budgets cover dinner at PizzaExpress, but not works of art.
This condition occurred rarely in groups with mild distraction and more often in groups with fast distraction (two cases from 22 against 10 from 18 p < 0.01).
