To keep their minds pure of distractions — such as family, money, and the inherent pleasures of naughtiness — he proposed housing them in a eugenically supervised free-love compound where they could be taught to fear the touch of gold and prevented from reading any literature in which the characters have speaking parts, which might lead them to forget themselves.
Afghanistan is a strategic distraction, pure and simple.
Here's a prediction: Regardless of what new technology brings, play by the end of 2016 will no longer be regarded as a pure leisure time distraction.
And there's the distraction, the pure time-suck, of mass media.
Others are pure whimsy, offering a distraction from the 24/7 grind.
Furthermore, we found indications that some school administrators regard sports and other physical activities as a distraction from pure academic work.
The Concert Companion was entertaining, but I was there to listen, not to read, and after a while it was just a hand-held distraction from the pure, focused experience that a meaningful concert -- or play or movie or exhibit -- needs to be.
When you look into the lens, you see the underside of the staircase as Pawson himself sees it: a pure spiral, without the visual distractions of windows and balustrades.
There are other engrossing elaborations of an "Eastern" concept of art, in which all painting is an act of memory and foreordained, and blindness is the ideal condition for creating pure art, being free of sensory distraction and temptation.
Consequently, by taking into consideration only the pure number of retrieved items after distraction or delay one runs the risk of contaminating hippocampal dependent memory processes with extra-hippocampal processes during acquisition.
