He cautioned, however, that "history has yet to tell us that this works as a distraction for everyone".
This was enough to enrage a few Republicans, which meant it certainly worked as a political distraction.
As long as it's not the reason for the tears coming on, it might work as a temporary distraction.
Smartphones, iPads and other electronic devices can work well as a distraction, especially if the child uses earbuds to block out other noise.
What's the fucking point?" Goodman admits that he has sometimes used work as a distraction from all the other, swirling aspects of his life, and possibly as a means of controlling them, too.
Allen said, he preferred work as a distraction to morbidity.
Freed's recent thesis exhibition at Seattle's Photographic Center Northwest, Feeling Bad About Feeling Good About Feeling Bad, pulls from her obsessive need to make work as a distraction, helping her cope with everyday stressors she describes as "things that linger and absorb mental focus, time, and energy".
But the slowness of this week's progress, and the carefully orchestrated, quite public delaying tactics, raise the question of whether the now well-rehearsed technique of locking Israel and its adversaries in a negotiating arena, cut off from other distractions, still works as well as it once did.
Also, I don't work as efficiently as I used to because of all the distractions.
