Word: distractedness
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Distracted, Peter loses interest in his work. When she decides not to see him again he also loses his efficiency, wrecks his plane, almost kills himself and his crew. Then Gervase thinks better of her ways. The happy ending comes when Peter proves himself a hero on a mission to...
Fully expecting a vivid account of exploits far and wide when we made the weekly round, we were met by icy stares and distracted comments instead. The midterms had taken hold.
Maugham has also succeeded in producing five Americans who are credible to other Americans - "that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world's confusion, so wistful of good, so cocksure on the outside, so diffident within, so kind, so hard, so...
The locale is an old Scottish castle, haunted by one of the central figures of the play, and the town pub, haunt of most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by...
Winston Churchill had reason to lower his head, glare, bark his characteristic short, harsh "rumph." He was not doing at all well in some of his dealings with the new giant of Europe, Joseph Stalin. Last week the endless battle of dissembled pressures went no better. After two more stormy...