Word: distractive
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...arrival of the seasonal Summer dullness in trade, superimposed upon a period of trade and manufacturing depression, has resulted in dull and inert commercial conditions. The political Conventions have meanwhile served to distract attention from business affairs, and with the prospect of unsettled conditions in politics for the next four months, there is a tendency toward watchful waiting all along the line from producer to consumer. Wall Street, however, after several months of an uninteresting experience with meaninglessly see-sawing prices, is now getting the old-fashioned thrill that only a sudden decline in interest rates can give. Bonds...
...swift decline in stock prices has tended to distract public attention from the more gradual but continuous fall in the prices of commodities...
After reading "The Big Year" we have decided not to send our son to New Haven. He would probably do much better at the University of Valpar also--and not find so much rah-rah to distract his mind. The Brooklyn Eagle...
...Until he knows more he will do well to practice the first virtue of the soldier, the patient pursuit, with all his might, of the course indicated to him. If in the training corps let him stick to it, learn self-control, and not permit nervous excitement to distract him from his other work. When the proper moment comes, and not before, he will be asked to give his whole time to military preparation. Those who are not in the training corps will be wise to wait until they can discern the path of their greatest usefulness. That will...
...symphony is not exactly music for amateurs. Yet the amateurs of the society played both pieces with the accuracy that was borne of ease with their music, and full understanding of it, with hardly a technical blunder or slip, with none that was so obvious as to vex and distract its hearers. Never before has "The Pierian" so learned and mastered its music. Its hearers heard the fruits of diligence and tireless leadership animated by ambition and devotion. All this, however, was only the groundwork to the playing of the orchestra. Alike in the tone-poem and in the symphony...