Word: distractability
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Cambridge already has another petition on voting eligibility currently pending with the state legislature, which would allow immigrants to vote in school committee elections. Several councillors had previously expressed concern that a petition to lower the voting age would distract from the immigrant voting petition, but Monday night councillors said a second petition would reinforce the importance of voting rights issues in Cambridge...
...internal drive that Woolf is incapable of controlling. In Dalsimer’s analysis, Woolf’s voracious desire to read as a child and her subsequent decision to become a writer are “medicine” for Woolf’s depression. Woolf reads to distract herself from the pain she feels and she writes so that she can become aware of her emotions and come to terms with them...
...effective cure. In her analysis of Woolf’s later writings, Dalsimer exposes the limitation of Woolf’s work to positively affect her emotional state. By depicting Woolf’s art as an involuntary drive, Dalsimer shows that writing can distract Woolf from her pain without necessarily getting to the core of her illness...
Forcing Carmen, the ultimate diva, to distract her attention from her sexual ploys and unrepentant selfishness is an intriguing, almost noble proposition—but one that ultimately proves futile...
...animated figure smiles coyly, bats her long eyelashes and swings her hips, using her feminine charms to distract the villain and allow the hero to save...