Sentence examples for utterly distracted from inspiring English sources

That was a portrait of a family utterly distracted by their devices — not surprisingly so, since the family income derives from the software industry.

This involved an astounding amount of drama: jaw gaping, tail thrashing, body convulsing; so much so that I became completely and utterly distracted and failed to photograph this momentous event!

Utterly distracted, we then set fire to them one by one, marvelling over their steady, potato-y light, before just having some normal sex, without any food in it at all.

It's tempting to think of all of those drivers as utterly distracted — texting, singing along with the radio, talking on the phone, eating, reading, fighting, pleading with children, even filing their nails — as they drive.

Sitting up in the nosebleed seats at the Democratic National Convention, one was struck by how utterly distracted the audience was for large stretches of Tuesday night's program.

We can immerse ourselves in the present, allowing ourselves to be utterly distracted by the glut of entertainment news and ever-changing headlines so that we fail to pay attention to or do anything about the government's ongoing power-grabs.

The split focus of two-track meetings and back-channeled conversations have other drawbacks, not the least of which is that they can be utterly distracting.

It's tabloid TV, turning political faux-pas into a Brangelina catfight, utterly distracting us from real issues.

The political dialogue in this country is absurd - an utterly meaningless, terminally distracting American Kabuki of suited clowns, power junkies and money freaks.

After a performance for the ages against Paraguay, Brooks seemed – like many of his team-mates – at once distracted, subdued, and utterly overawed by the company he had been asked to keep for 90 minutes; the young defender lost Ezequiel Lavezzi for Argentina's first goal, and from that moment the US were never really in the contest.

We will only begin to confront the magnitude of our choice when and if we stop being distracted by small, let alone utterly fictitious, things.