Matt Jaffe & The Distractions have successfully "distracted" the listener with their music.
Van Gogh's Ear successfully distracts patrons from the eponymous grisly image with a fun, relaxing atmosphere.
If you're successfully distracted by writing you don't even notice the kilometres.
It also successfully distracted the French from the frightening events taking place in Germany.
But Diaz gets it because it successfully distracts from the fact that she's wearing last year's dress.
When she feels sexual or romantic attraction, she eats soap, which, as can be imagined, successfully distracts her.
The insistent, all-over pattern successfully distracts attention from the fact that, like most department stores, the natural form of the John Lewis building is a big blank box with occasional openings.
But that month-long faux controversy has successfully distracted the DC press from the real story: that the CIA has consistently claimed to have briefed Democrats in congress, only to be proved wrong.
Because the study will focus on students between the ages of four and eight, the classroom lessons will rely heavily on peer modelling, such as showing kindergartners a video of a child successfully distracting herself during the marshmallow task.
Trump, by telling lies and lobbing ever more non sequiturs, has successfully distracted a good part of America, and arguably the world, from focussing on the matter at hand: his incompetence and unsuitability for the position of President of the United States.
