"For as long as I can remember, I have always just wanted to make my parents proud, to somehow distract them from losing Julian," she has said.
Somehow distract the brat's attention, shove the teaspoon into its gob, quickly follow up with a sweet: "There, there: what was all the fuss about?" That reached its apogee over the Lisbon Treaty.
We had achieved so much in just a few hours, if the Liberal Democrats and Tories believe that the sensationalist reporting of a small minority's actions will somehow distract from the whole they are wrong.
By demonizing this young black man, the police and media tried to convince us that this his life didn't matter, as if this will somehow distract from their own culpability in his unnecessary death.
Increasingly, one got the sense that acting "tough" on this issue was a means of somehow distracting attention from the issues of job insecurity, housing shortages and public service provision that so spectacularly exploded when the Blair government decided against transitional controls on migration from the EU accession countries of eastern Europe.
Seems like there will always be some amount of irrational fear in the world, and for science to free itself from this it must somehow distract people with worries about all the unlikely comet collisions, Y2K bugs, 2012 apocalypses, etc.
But, unless involvement with the main categories somehow distracts and pulls away votes, it's Amour's win, surely?
Dispensing entirely with the usual history-by-numbers plod of the biopic, the film provides an episodic, time-lapse child's view of the Dalai Lama's spiritual development, each scene no longer than a minute, passing by like pages of a flicked storybook, the effect somehow not distracted but achieving a rapt tranquillity made possible, in part, by Mathison's minimalism.
Their take on "Let It Be" starts out pleasantly tuneful, but somehow they get distracted in the chorus and toss in a sampling of every other song that ever used the same chord progression (of which, it turns out, there are a lot).
