Sentence examples for purpose of distracting from inspiring English sources

The games serve the purpose of distracting the attention of the masses of the sport-loving youth of the United States and the entire world, most of whom are suffering under the burden of the economic crisis, from their own immediate problems.

I took to watching the hotel channel you know the one, the one that exists in every tourist trap and informs you, the visitor of its fair city, about all the things you simply must do while briefly in its confines, for the sole purpose of distracting me from myself.

For the purpose of the present study, this method is of interest, as it might allow us to examine the mediational role of distracting stimuli in latencies to emotional stimuli.

Or is it just a way of distracting us from our true purpose?

Don't think of distracting thoughts.

Get rid of distracting backgrounds and clutter.

Even if preparations for this fight, while typical, serve a different purpose: to distract from the reality, jabs instead of jail.

I am convinced that this sort of distracted life runs at cross purposes with the spiritual life.

The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of distracted pedestrian behavior at two intersections, one of which had sidewalk stencils that had been installed during the previous 6 weeks and the other did not.

Purpose can distract from the creeping anxiety about food, supplies, and money.

Purpose can distract from the creeping anxiety about food, supplies, and money at least sometimes.