Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being masters in their own houses." He was greeted by warm applause from Third World delegates, who disregarded the fact that their poor nations are being hurt much worse than the industrialized countries by the rise in oil prices. Boumedienne appeared to be trying, all too successfully, to distract attention from that fact and undercut U.S. efforts to weld oil-burning nations into a bloc that could press for lower prices...
...clearly, to feel deeply or to attempt to resolve any problems which could conceivably be of importance to it. Trivial plays and musicals, at which scores of students will be sweating away this semester, make truly trivial events, stereotyped characters, and mediocre music seem real and significant. These productions distract us rather than direct us to real life and real problems, personal and political...
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...