Sentence examples for need for distraction from inspiring English sources

In the children's wing, the need for distraction becomes more acute.

A need for distraction after he was dropped from the British Cabinet in 1915 and before he went to the French front as an infantry officer caused him to take up water colors.

Sinatra's need for distraction and his terror of solitude are a central theme of Sinatra: The Chairman, James Kaplan's meticulously researched biography, this second volume marking the singer's centenary.

I didn't like my need for distraction, so I began to fight it.

Boredom no longer signals the need for distraction, but rather the need for new challenges to conquer.

You can quickly determine how strong this need for distraction is by experimenting with doing just one thing at a time.

There is no need for distractions.

Is it nature or nurture that is driving our increasingly short attention spans and need for distractions?

As a result, the board is giving Engelhard shareholders the ability to elect a majority of the newly enlarged board at the Annual Meeting without the need for, or distraction of, BASF's threatened consent solicitation.

Physical and emotional aches and pains can create the need for a distraction, something that provides even the slightest bit of relief.

For some unknown reason perhaps due to a desperate need for a distraction from the increasingly disheartening Kavanaugh saga this seemingly middling bit of sports PR sparked a fire inside the collective internet mind.