Word: distracter
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...there is a briskness of pace and enough mild wit to hold one's attention. By the end one is rather surprised at how high the pile of corpses is, which means that sufficient style was present to serve its traditional function in the puzzle mystery - distract us from the gore that of necessity lies at the center of this form. Which is a way of saying that they must have been doing something right here. Too bad they couldn't have gone just a little bit further - from the entertaining to the entrancing...
...celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes, but it's just pleasant viewing after a while. The layers of supporting characters and incidental situations distract whatever attention the friendship might have drawn...
...news that Harvard plans to establish a program of graduate studies for black South Africans is welcome. But such a policy should not distract us from the more fundamental issues that students brought up last year...
Matthiessen's excursions into intellectual history and "one's true nature" distract from his sensuous descriptions of nature, and his discourses on Zen often get in the way of his personal reflections. He bears his pilgrim's burden with melancholy dignity, but, ironically, his book lacks an essential Zen element: wit, the lightness of touch that is absolutely necessary when jiggling the web of paradoxes nature has stretched across its secrets...
...cost him more time and effort than they saved. The dittographer was always breaking down. The way he made his home 'convenient' left his daughter and her children roofless, living under canvas for long periods of remodeling. Too much attention to the house's gimmicks can distract one from the home, which is perhaps Jefferson's most truly - original work, notion of equal opportunity but an exact uniformity in men's moral sense, a term that itself possessed exact meaning. The author argues that Jefferson included blacks in this equality of moral sense and therefore...