Word: deflective
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...week, Burton had owned up to the Indianapolis Star what Indiana political circles had been buzzing about for years: that he had fathered an illegitimate son in the early 1980s. He told the paper he wanted to go public to deflect attention from the boy and his mother...
...this statistical confluence a mere coincidence, a reflection of hard-won marital wisdom or an indication of the sorts of rationalizations relied on by husbands who can't deflect blame onto a "politically inspired lawsuit" or an investigation that has "gone on too long"? The matter awaits further study. The numbers for women are less synchronous: while upwards of 15% of wives may have been unfaithful, according to the Chicago study, 22% agreed with the statement in the TIME/CNN poll that infidelity is unavoidable. Whether this is a function of charity, resignation or some other phenomenon also awaits further analysis...
...very good one. To anyone who ever raised a child, Tawana's story had the unmistakable ring of a whopper--an extreme example of a script that a desperate 15-year-old might well invent if, like Tawana, she had gone AWOL for a few days and needed to deflect a feared stepfather's wrath...
...danced at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, modeled furs and later gave classes in which she taught such actors as Bette Davis and Gregory Peck how to move. (Richard Boone claimed that to die onscreen, he simply did a one-count Graham fall.) But nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to "chart the graph of the heart" through movement. "That driving force of God that plunges through me is what I live for," she wrote, and believed every word of it. Others believed too, partly because of the hurricane-strength force...
Twelve minutes into the third sudden death overtime, sophomore midfielder Ashley Berman raced the ball down the right flank and dumped it to freshman Erin Aeschliman, who spun around and fired a shot at the George Mason goaltender. The keeper was able to dive and deflect the blast, but the ball came to junior forward and Ivy League Player of the Year Naomi Miller, who knew just what to do with it. Miller calmly deposited the ball into the back of the George Mason net and sent her Harvard teammates, coaches and fans into a hysterical frenzy...