Sentence examples for minor diversions from inspiring English sources

The children also provided minor diversions from the serious oratory.

In the 11 years that have passed, there have been just two minor diversions.

In the past, Mr Menem and Argentina would confidently have brushed aside such minor diversions.

The Supra, with its leather interior and 2.8-liter 6-cylinder engine, was Toyota's first major move upmarket in the United States -- the large Crown sedan and 2000GT being minor diversions -- and was the first step toward the Lexus division.

As for Shyamalan (whose possessive the Night Chronicles credit suggests that this is but the first in a series of such minor diversions), surely after this and The Last Airbender things can only get better?

SUN RA -- "Space Is the Place," John Coney's 1974 gangster/science-fiction movie featuring Sun Ra and his Arkestra, is also a rock-and-roll film: it has the same structure as "Rock and Roll High School and Schoolof of Rock," in that the plot lines act as minor diversions on the way to the band's playing a gig at the end.

The film, which also features Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, is "a minor diversion dripping in splatter and groaning with self-amusement," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in October.

Although ambitious and costly, the Mpempe Demazane Canal resulted in little downward or headward erosion, and there was minor diversion of flow.

But you can be flexible about your tactics and sensitive to people when it doesn't get in the way of your key goals or when tactics cause a minor diversion to your long-term vision.

"Suggesting that this was a minor diversion carried out in a short space of time, rather than a serious project to come up with the best possible final line".

The health of the leader of Latin America's self-proclaimed Bolivarian revolution has enormous global implications, even as the American press regards it as a minor diversion somewhere below March Madness.