Word: distracter
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Most children-and their parents too-respond quickly to the lively decor of the radiology department. But it is Brodeur's magic that enables him to distract even the most fearful child. He pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
...seems to work well. A successful example is, once again, the court between Matthews and Strauss, and, potentially, the Canaday court. On the east side of Sever Hall, however, situated in a much larger yard, the shrubs are an unmitigated disaster. Their diminutive scale and bushy quality tend to distract the eye from and visually undercut a most majestic building...
...Tenured professors would feel the additional obligation of U.S. senators to disclose all outside income from consulting, private business activities, speaking engagements, royalties, interest and dividends to allay any suspicions that such outside income might influence their objectivity or might distract them from the life of quiet reflection which it is the purpose of life tenure to assure...
Instead, historical novels tend to entertain, distract, and pander to escapist tendencies. Certainly Vidal is a good enough writer to produce generally competent work, and when Vidal chooses to write an historical novel, he is likely to write a good one. But there is no reason to expect him to transcend the boundaries of the field...
...lawyers, Agnew said, advised him that a legal battle over the charges facing him could drag on for years. He said he feared that "intense media interest in the case would distract public attention from other matters of public importance...