Word: distractive
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...Worlds. "The world inhabited by ordinary, nice unregenerate people is ... so dull that they have to distract their minds from being aware of it by all sorts of artificial 'amusements.'. . . For those who have deserved the world by making themselves fit to see God within it as well as within their own souls, it wears a very different aspect...
...American policy in World War I, Wells suddenly launched on the unsuspecting James his devastating attack: George Boon, The Mind of the Race. This volume contained a parody of James's style, with this deadly description: "His novel ... is like a church lit, but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an eggshell, a piece of string...
...inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...
...field commanders. He gave Hodges one more test: command of the Third Army. The 1943 Louisiana maneuvers clinched the case and Marshall's conviction of Hodges' abilities: "unbeatable in the kind of command that requires deliberate method, close-knit organization, the kind of mind that nothing can distract." Hodges went to England and to battle...
...despite his new humility, Poet Auden does not lay sole blame for the blunders of contemporary thought on the artist and creative thinker. For the plain people clamor at the artist's door, promising him devotion and rich rewards if he will only distract them from the harshness of life by painting it in magic colors and assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled...