Word: distractedness
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Lonely Splendor. A high Indian official, one of the few visitors who saw Jinnah during his Lahore illness, said: "When I started talking, I noticed that the Qaid-e-Azam looked distracted. He was constantly touching his right finger tips with his thumb as if he were silently counting something...
Something Steady. This wedding, on a dark day of a troubled, distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even...
People who go to hear Sir Thomas Beecham's brilliant conducting expect to experience some antic interruptions by the maestro, or at least to be distracted a little by the hoarse shouts he directs at his orchestra. Since 68-year-old Sir Thomas' second marriage, in 1945, they...
Yes, spring was in the air of the Widener reading room yesterday, as two winged visitors from the great outdoors floated into the hallowed confines and flapped cheerily around the arched ceiling while distracted students gaped.
Distracted by such attacks, shocked by the expense, the U.S. public might in the end withdraw its support. This was the greatest risk. If that happened, the Truman program might end in a fiasco, and Joe Kennedy's theory work out in reverse.