The standard line is that glam rock represented a diversion from the misery of early-70s life, a glittery space-age dreamworld in which you could hide from rising unemployment, industrial unrest and terrorism.
Such doctrinal writing, expounding innermost convictions and sometimes representing a diversion from more intensive pursuits, constitutes a by no means negligible portion of the writings of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, of the poet William Butler Yeats, and others.
There have been claims that Dream On represents a diversion into "Dixieland jazz": it's got a trombone on it – which in fairness is one trombone more than Oasis ever featured – but then so did The Floral Dance by the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band.
In a country where total per capital health expenditure is only $44 [ 25], costs attributable to induced (usually unsafe) abortion may represent a substantial diversion of public healthcare resources from other disease areas which, if saved, could be better deployed.
1291 3rd Avenue, +1 212 650 1310 Danny Meyer's populist burger shack in Madison Park represents a welcome diversion from his more upscale outfits.
And its size represents a massive diversion of actual and potential resources away from public activities that benefit the whole of society--activities like education, public health, and environmental protection, the very ones Bush endorsed at the outset of his speech--and toward the single purpose of augmenting the net incomes of the comfortable.
While the Maldivian UHC program is financed through the government budget, the outflow on MTO represents a considerable diversion of public funds to overseas facilities.
Does a lemon meringue "composition" that comes in a half-dozen unhinged pieces represent a bold culinary advance or merely a brash intellectual diversion?
"Diversity can be a diversion," said Jackson.
Live "with urinary diversion" represents a new phase of life and not a deterioration.
