In life human beings return from a distracting variety of interests to a few simple things; or, if they do not return, run the risk of losing their souls.
By day, by night, alone, or in company, he was haunted with ideas the most distracting to his peace.
I rose with a distracting headache, from the constant firing of the heavy guns during the night; the enemy sent three round shots into our house, and the guns in our Compound returned the fire.
I had a most distracting headache; however, the night passed on, and we did not move.
Here, undisturbed by the distracting life of the city, he could effectively deliver his message to the thoughtful ones who sought him in his solitude.
What a nuisance railcars are, with their distractingracket and bustle and jar.
To make this strong, to make this able to resist the distracting play of associations, is its most important and also one of its most difficult tasks.
At the same time, in such complicated cases the distractinginfluences increase in power continually, and accordingly continually alter the quality of the feeling-tone that hovers over the whole.
But neither the dance nor her wish to please one of the handsomest men at court, nor anything at all, succeeded in distracting Mathilde.
It knows itself too well, it sits in judgment on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought it is made by sheer force of thought.
In anxious and distracting moments like this, when so many arguments tell in one way and so many tell in another, a casting vote often belongs to the moral weight of some particular person.
All this illustrates the energy of Gordon's mental movements, and also, what is more important, the distracting difficulties of the case before him.
This gigantic preluding of the essential is a distracting postponement, a colossal interruption--difficult to be done justice to by the impatient hearer, even if perfect in itself.
In spite of his discretion, the man who was reading his paper raised his head and looked irritably at them over his spectacles as though a fly were distracting him with its buzzing.
Those were but the quarrels of a miserable little nation monopolizing the attention of the world, distracting it from more worthwhile matters.
We know what we have to face in these distracting times; we knew it when we married.
Then came a mental picture of the distracting face he had seen that same morning; he seemed to be looking once more into the girl's eyes, and feeling the soft touch of her little hands about his head.
Little by little the first distracting throes of misery passed.
This invading host was made up of the descendants of Lot and of Esau; and this fact might give rise to a thousand conflicting thoughts and distracting questions in the mind of Jehoshaphat.
We shall be done with a sinful, sorrowful, distracting world, where all is directly opposed to God and to us, and we shall breathe the pure, invigorating atmosphere of that bright and blessed world above.
The perusal of this smattering of everything, these scraps of information and snatches of literature, this infinite variety and medley, in which no subject is adequately treated, is distracting and debilitating to the mind.
Distracting as all this is, however, happy is the man who does not hear a goat lamenting in the night.
A real baron would have had her out of there before you could mention half of Jack Robinson, and there wouldn't have been any sleep lost over distracting puzzles.
His distracting passion--how distracting he had never before realized--was gone!
The drama is too exciting, too distracting to the players.
He pointed to the lacquer cabinet, purposelydistracting the young man's attention from the chairs.
And thus the poor lady was tortured with perplexity, opposite passions distracting and tearing her mind different ways.
Ruth was more distracting than ever the next morning when she appeared, fresh and radiant, at the breakfast table.
A distractingdimple dented the velvet of her right cheek, and above her small mouth and perfectly formed nose a pair of hazel eyes looked frankly out upon the world.
The images thus conjured up from herdistracting anxieties and excited brain, all heightened by the natural inspirations of the place and the hour, soon became to her vivid realities.
