capsaicin, provide a superficial burning sensation that can momentarily distract a patient's attention away from the more serious pain of arthritis or muscle...

important role to play in the circuitry underpinning distractibility. Heightened distractibility occurs in normal aging and is also a central feature...

of time spent concentrating on a task before becoming distracted. Distractibility occurs when attention is uncontrollably diverted to another activity...

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that...

charts. Fischbach, alongside Barnes and Muyskens, hosts the podcast Distractible. Also produced by Wood Elf, it rose to No. 1 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts'...

Distractive markings serve to camouflage animals or military vehicles by drawing the observer's attention away from the object as a whole, such as noticing...

Nefundella distractor is a species of snout moth in the genus Nefundella. It is found in Puerto Rico. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen...

creative ideas. Other symptoms may include feelings of grandiosity, distractibility, and hypersexuality. While hypomanic behavior often generates productivity...

Increase in goal-directed activity, or psychomotor acceleration. Distractibility (too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli). Excessive...

sexual stimulation and oral sensation simultaneously, but this can also distract those who try to focus solely on their own pleasure from giving oral sex...

samurai or ninja or in martial arts as a hidden dagger or metsubushi to distract or misdirect. The origins of the bo-shuriken in Japan are still unclear...

stimuli and ignore competing stimuli. This skill is associated with distractibility. There are a variety of CPTs, the more commonly used being the Integrated...

Distractive Killusions is the third full-length album by Polish symphonic black metal band Vesania. It was recorded at Studio X in Olsztyn, Poland by...

are the distractibility account, executive-function account, and the decoupling account. The distractibility account theorizes that distracting stimuli...

The Vitakkasanthana Sutta (MN 20) (The Removal of Distracting Thoughts) is the 20th discourse in Majjhima Nikaya of Pāli Canon in Theravada Buddhism....

The hypothesis seeks to explain the "hyperfocus" aspect of ADHD, the distractibility factor in ADHD, the short attention span individuals with ADHD have...

limited research has attempted to bridge gaps between studying auditory distractibility in controlled laboratory environments and everyday, real-world environments...

verbal fluency, and working memory, and there is often perseveration, distractibility and inattention. Language problems include dysprosodia, agrammatism...

demonstrate various fonts of a typeface without meaningful text that could be distracting. Versions of the Lorem ipsum text have been used in typesetting since...

incorporate the stories of two families. Many found the first-person narration distracting, as it appears inconsistently throughout the novel. Critics also disparaged...

to blind or disrupt radar systems. Modern military forces use chaff to distract active radar homing missiles from their targets. Military aircraft and...

not exist, and is instead an illusion propagated by various forces to distract or mislead the German public. First posted on the German Usenet in 1994...

remains that of a husband trying to drive his wife insane in order to distract her from his criminal activities. Gaslight was released theatrically on...

disorders has distinguished between at least two kinds: one a disorder of distractibility, lack of sustained attention, and poor inhibition (that is now known...

the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce distracting or unpleasant blurring ("good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively). Photographers...

Enforcers are different from pests, players who seek to agitate opponents and distract them from the game without necessarily fighting them. The pest's primary...

Hamlet. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause...

No. Title Length 1. "Distractor" 5:19 2. "Regulator" 4:18 3. "Nympho" 4:52 4. "Lovesick" 5:14 5. "Drylips" 4:30 6. "Bounded" 1:52 7. "Fragment" 3:46 8...

known as "baiting" a suspect. The main use for this network decoy is to distract potential attackers from more important information and machines on the...

patterns, initial reaction, adaptability, intensity of emotion, mood, distractibility, persistence and attention span, and sensory sensitivity. Redundancies...

public and private – for questions around effectiveness, safety, and distractibility. Teachers are some of the biggest critics, citing jealousy between...

media savvy was perceived necessary to better cope with the website's distracting content and fickle audience. Some YouTube videos have themselves had...

factual evidence. This kind of appeal to emotion is irrelevant to or distracting from the facts of the argument (a so-called "red herring") and encompasses...

the discipline of swordsmanship and fencing, is a maneuver designed to distract or mislead. A feint is achieved by giving the impression that a certain...

spirals ever further out into surrealism and caricatures, sometimes distracting from the show's "core insights". In a review for NPR, Linda Holmes explained...

sight; criticism of these tactics have been levied as being a method of distracting the viewer from the weak musical quality of some of the competing entries...

yells abusively and strikes Tommy out of frustration with his autism. She distracts her counterpart with the doorbell, then kills her, and tells Tommy that...

and stopped—but he isn't bitter about it at all. His friendly demeanor distracts you, while he sneaks in just a whiff of social insight within a barrage...

tactic often used to derail arguments because such comparisons tend to distract and anger the opponent. Reductio ad Hitlerum is a type of association fallacy...

be thought about, and which the Buddha refused to answer, since this distracts from practice, and hinders the attainment of liberation. Various sets...

it is a FTD, that it should come under the umbrella of the subtype 'distractibility'. Moreover, due to limited research there have been discrepancies in...

sports and gambling activities. Hustlers may also engage in "sharking"—distracting, disheartening, enraging, or even threatening their opponents—to throw...

Cosmo to a restaurant where, as instructed, he picks up hamburgers to distract the guard dogs at Wu's home. Making his way to the bookie's room, Cosmo...

athletic spectacles as means for tyrants to control their subjects by distracting them. Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy...

recordings from Angela's laptop, but she uses her Kimi device to again distract Rivas and his men, escaping to a higher floor. She cobbles together a weapon...

Amicia, using a combination of stealth and limited tools to hide from, distract, or knock out soldiers, evade rat hordes, and solve puzzles, incorporating...

strategy was one of caution, intent upon avoiding mistakes that would distract from Hoover's failings on the economy. After the convention, Roosevelt...

himself back at the party. After deliberately spilling a drink on Dave to distract him, he finds the paperwork for the crucial deal. Nick then returns to...

Yash's hand, ready to die just like he did earlier, but reverses it by distracting Yash. Now Yash is hanging on for dear life and Raju lets go, killing...

on Sunday, by Glen Owen, in which it was alleged that she had tried to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs in a similar...

track down and hold the elk at bay—jumping in and out toward the elk, distracting its attention, while signaling to the hunters by barking very loudly—until...

parents helplessly watch. Holding the last cobra egg, Rikki taunts and distracts Nagaina as Teddy is pulled to safety, and tells her that Nag was already...

his followers. Kitana berates Tsung for his treachery to the Emperor, distracting him while Kang and Johnny free Sonya. Tsung challenges Johnny but is...

typically start to appear ("erupt") around six months of age and this may be distracting and/or painful for the infant. However, some babies are born with one...

situation, Waze displays an alert and asks whether the hazard still exists, distracting the driver and increasing the risk of a crash. It also encourages and...

Carlitos is about to be apprehended, throws his coffee at the cops to distract them. Enrique shouts to Carlitos to run away, which he does, but Enrique...

that night. She was a Judy Garland fan, so her parents, in an attempt to distract her from the loss, encouraged Merced to audition for a local production...

her with a pistol; before he can, however, she triggers a booby trap to distract him, and shoots him in both knees, incapacitating him. She proceeds to...

cameo appearances by Landis' friends and colleagues was unnecessary and distracting. Upon discovering that his wife Ellen is having an affair, aerospace...

arrives, Nandi suggests using the daily thunderstorm to kill it. Travis distracts it as the villagers construct a trap. When the storm erupts, Nandi lures...

accepts, and tosses Rio aside. Sara emerges from the saloon suddenly, distracting Garrett. Grant makes his move, but Rio shoots him in the head. Before...

described GNH as a propaganda tool used by the Bhutanese government to distract from ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses it has committed. In an article...

The crew of Novecento wore a purple shirt with phosphorescent bands to distract the opponents and had lined up, passing them off as engineers, two players...

only with the eremitical life, might speedily become disgusted if the distracting cares of the cenobitical life were thrust too abruptly upon them. He...

it on a narrow ledge. E helps Hana maneuver around it, partially by distracting her singing a favorite song. E confides in Casper that the brown violin...

strategy; in the second round, they will also make light-hearted attempts to distract Flay. At the end of each episode, if the contestant wins, then they get...

election, arguing which of them will be the nominee for president. Douglas distracts Kramer by throwing a dollar on the floor, and grabs the microphone to...

well with the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, particularly high distractibility, and with research findings. The assumption that the attentional process...

political figure aims to gain media attention, disorient opponents and distract the public from undesirable reports by rapidly forwarding large volumes...

Web filtering in schools blocks students from inappropriate and distracting content across the web, while allowing sites that are selected by school administrators...

drowning himself in the Thames. A vision of a giantess and two dwarves distracts him; he follows them to a frost fair, where he arm-wrestles the giantess—a...

and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman] cram[med] in too much," adding, "This distracts from the heart of the picture, which is in the bond between Carl Lee (the...

winning a reward challenge, Judd received a clue to the hidden idol. To distract the other players, Judd lied about the clue's contents, which Gary was...

city was made. These reports claim that the park was hurriedly opened to distract Pripyat residents from the unfolding disaster nearby. However, these claims...

combat, door breaching, and riot control, typically to stun enemies or distract them. Originally developed to simulate explosions during military training...

2005, he was sworn in, but elected for a private ceremony to avoid distracting attention from the other officers. He assumed a $1-per-year salary in...

2010. Mackey, Robert (18 June 2010). "Spanish Goalkeeper's Girlfriend Distracts British Press". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2010. Kramer, Brigitte...

referee about this bending of the rules (and therefore, unintentionally "distracting" the referee away from the heels). Eventually the weakened face wrestler...

Lynch and is given a new regimen of sedatives. Carter devises a plan to distract the orderlies handing the pills to Junior so that he can covertly throw...

S2CID 13008483. Agmo A, Belzung C, Rodríguez C (1997). "A rat model of distractibility: effects of drugs modifying dopaminergic, noradrenergic and GABAergic...

contact lenses to change her eye color as they considered her natural eyes distracting. "Paid Notice: Deaths Foster, Nancy Adamson". The New York Times. 16...

legends about the yōkai Kuchisake-onna say that she can be escaped by distracting her with bekkō ame. Boiled sweet is a misnomer, as sucrose (a disaccharide)...

pregnant Nasreen, who remains unaware that ISI agents are pursuing them. He distracts the agents long enough for Nasreen to board an aeroplane and depart safely...

2024 during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It was originally used as a decoy to distract and overwhelm Ukrainian air defense due to its visual similarity to the...

him, having followed the chase upon seeing it pass the school. Shane distracts Mr. Chun with the help of the family pet duck Gary, and Claire subdues...

disillusionment and uncertainty about religion and Mormonism and how it distracts from reality, similar to how smoke and mirrors was used. Tim Cantor, artist...

barely escape. Kelly leaves out raw meat laced with sleeping pills to distract Lucifer, but to no avail. Back upstairs, she finds the attic nailed shut...

distance from the shooter. The goal is to visually block the basket and distract the shooter while avoiding the possibility of a foul for contact. As of...

Zeus with the nymphs. Echo protected her friends from Hera's wrath by distracting her with charming chatter while they escaped. When Hera realized what...

States. In the 1989 film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, in order to distract the guards Uhura performs a fan dance. The Simpsons episode "Bart After...

girls, and Lil and Taylor strap him into a hang glider whilst Maddie distracts him. Lil gives a signal to a boat offshore and Doug is flown up into the...

that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation's focus away from their behaviour or attempting...

SweetSexySavage (2016). In the song, Kehlani asks if a lover is willing to distract her from her work. The single was nominated for Best R&B Performance at...

consensus states, "Hello Tomorrow! is visually striking enough to periodically distract from its rambling story and thinly sketched characters, but overall, this...

leaves. Knowing Ed will be shot swiftly, Lou hatches a plan. Karl Weathers distracts Bear while Lou sneaks Ed out a rear window, narrowly avoiding Hanzee....

Retrieved April 22, 2014. "ABC Television - ABC2 - Arthur - Opposites Distract/ Just The Ticket - 3:30pm Friday, April 26, 2013". Abc.net.au. April 26...

experience and his liking of whales. Later that night, while Randolph distracts John and the whalers at a bar like Jesse asked, Jesse manages to sneak...

sparring match. Not wanting his daughter to lose, Zeus flapped his aegis to distract Pallas, whom Athena accidentally impaled. Distraught over what she had...

shoving Mickey so hard that the latter suffers a heart attack which further distracts Rocky from the fight (and later proves fatal). He also angers former champion...

a type of diversionary foreign policy where military action is used to distract from other issues. A joke about the phrase appears in the 1858 play Our...

his jolly, grandpa-like image. He is often tasked with babysitting and distracting children (a typical male role in the matrilineal religion) while more...

characters. For example, when Gertrude (the queen) is reluctant to admit the "distract" Ophelia, she changes her mind following Horatio's advice. Hamlet has departed...

accompanied by Enki, a mysterious fox-like creature. Enki can be commanded to distract or stun enemies, teleport the player, or infuse Nor's attacks with magic...

escape him. A stand-off ensues; Dom detonates his car with nitrous oxide to distract Braga's men, and Brian hijacks a 1999 Hummer H1 with $60 million worth...

and houses on us and fought very well for a time. Our dash was made to distract attention while Hardee made the real attack on the enemy's flank. We captured...

Michelle, Diehl grabs the family shotgun and kills the young girl. The shot distracts Ben from his efforts to defend Michelle, whom Diondra strangles while...

as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape. The term...

The Whole Nine Yards can't tickle funny bones consistently enough to distract from its sitcom-like story." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average...

guards for various luxuries. He also creates profitable ventures that distract from the mundanity of camp life: from organizing rat races for gambling...

carrying the gold running across the border. He frees the prisoners and distracts the guards so they can ride off, but Yuki tells him to join them. The...

the townspeople relish the fact that "a real murder" has taken place, distracting everyone from their mind-numbingly boring lives. Klaus Kinski as Friedrich...

happy to see him, but Beth wants him to leave. Prendergast arrives and distracts Foster long enough for Beth to throw his gun into the ocean. Prendergast...

(epicanthal folds) Some children also experience behavioural problems like distractibility, hyperactivity, impaired communication and social skills, which qualifies...

or pressured speech, flight of ideas or rapid cycling of thoughts, distractibility, increased goal-directed activity, psychomotor agitation, and/or excessive...

sneaks her out, with Skylar's help (he manipulates some electronics, distracting the nurses, then guides them to the site of the accident). In a flashback...

cannibals capture them. The next day, Dale sneaks into the compound to distract the cannibal family who were eating dinner. He kills Brother and Sister...

teleport back into the computer. Guided by the computer virus, Ornio distracts a hooker, which allows Squeegie and the computer virus to go back to Pooper's...

and Elizabeth realizes that Sparrow is the Kraken's sole target. She distracts him with a kiss while handcuffing him to the mast, and tells the others...

having faked the attack, lunges at Mrs. Mott when Solomon momentarily distracts her. Claire pushes Mrs. Mott out the attic window, fatally impaling her...

address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach...

populated. He would also set small fires in the grassy hills in order to distract firefighters, leaving fires set in more congested areas unattended. He...

claimed Shao did so to appease her subjects. Quan Chi, believing she was distracting Shao, later killed her and staged it as a suicide before using her soul...

hoping to pry loose of delegates from Pennsylvania and other states, and distract Ford. Instead, conservatives were left alienated, and Ford picked up the...

behavioral or cognitive set in the presence of distracting or competing stimuli (“freedom from distractibility”). Alternating attention: shifting focus and...

outside and sings ("Extra Ordinary"). He is entranced by her voice. Angela distracts and challenges Gail to a Bollywood dance-off ("Oh Mere Dilruba"). Gail...

the Fw 190 fighters and Stuka dive bombers grounded there. While Grillo distracts the German forces, Powell sneaks into a bunker, cuts off Axis radio contact...

follows and corners them near a balcony. Padayappa fires his gun; which distracts Rambo, he slips on his urine from his detached catheter and falls from...

devotions are not widely promoted in the Bible. They believe this devotion may distract attention from Christ. According to practitioners, devotion to the Virgin...

Josh and their boss, concluding that he has been using their romance to distract her from the promotion. Enraged, she vows to beat Josh for the job. On...

German scholarship. The New Critics felt that this approach tended to distract from the text and meaning of a poem and entirely neglect its aesthetic...

The Mutant leader, who is in his prime, nearly kills Batman, but Kelley distracts him long enough for Batman to subdue him. The leader and many gang members...

sneaks up and silently frees both Foxy and Baby. This enrages Aquarius, distracting his man in the knife fight and allowing Otis to gain the upper hand....

is set on fire and forced onto railroad tracks. Max kisses Agent 23 to distract him. Both he and 99 are thrown off the vehicle before it collides with...

fortune in a bad business deal and was too proud to sell the diamond. Nick distracts the police while Joey and his girlfriend, Angie, break into Englander's...

16, 2023). "'Jeanne du Barry' Review: Johnny Depp Makes a Decent, if Distracting Match for 'My King' Director Maïwenn". Variety. Archived from the original...

L'ange du mal, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and "unhealthy beauty". Le génie du mal is set within an open...

shedding's secret to Martin, who reacts in shock and disgust. Damian distracts Jensen's men while Martin helps the others to flee. Damian again fatally...

one of the Stillwell Gang members starts a shootout with the lawmen and distracts Stillwell. He decides to leave the nugget and escape, taking Celia as...

because humans contribute all of their actions to either avoiding death or distracting themselves from contemplating it. Thus, terror management theory asserts...

Polanski uses slow camera movements, a soundtrack carefully composed of distracting, repetitive noises (clocks ticking, bells ringing, hearts thumping) and...

cannot play a ten if there is a king on a deck. It is common to attempt to distract an opponent by making conversation or announcing one's moves aloud as they...

naive participants have confirmed this preference. Images with clutter can distract from the main elements within the picture and make it difficult to identify...

Globe. Retrieved 21 February 2020. Lestch, Corinne (3 October 2014). "'Distracting' yoga pants banned by officials at North Dakota high school". New York...

 ... Unlike The Irishman, which unconvincingly de-aged its cast via distracting CGI, this film relies on prosthetics and makeup to transform De Niro...

saying that Orbie saying things such as "you're such a good girl" were distracting. Based on 16 reviews Wood, Austin (2026-04-28). "Indie dev discovers...

Bear Dogs would be used to harry the animal, barking loudly, in order to distract the bear while the human hunter came in for the kill. Karelian Bear Dogs...

episode of The Office, Andy Bernard does the dance sans music as a way to distract Pam from her contractions. In 2011, Judson also appeared on Tosh.0, hosted...

second ferry. Stantin finds Steve and exchanges fire with him before Knox distracts him and frees Sarah. When Steve runs away and takes a passenger and her...

wrote that "the soldiers' awkward line readings are glaring enough to distract from the potency of the story." Similarly, Amy Biancolli from the San Francisco...

composition. Tillius Cimber is depicted pulling on Caesar's toga to both distract and pin him, as Servilius Casca sneaks behind Caesar and attempts to stab...

involvement of terrorists led by Albert "Tall Albert" Smith, using fires to distract from the theft of missiles. Albert plants a bomb in Sean's home to murder...

and draws out the messages which it is trying to get across, without distracting its audience with overly choreographed 'shock scenes'." The film, co-directed...

human population most likely to discover the Visitors' secrets) and to distract the rest of the population with a scapegoat to whom they can attribute...

increasing the boss fight's difficulty. These additional enemies may distract from the boss battle or give time for the boss to regain or regenerate...

lives in the same apartment complex as her, worries that her new job might distract her from her acting career, but she assures him that phone sex is essentially...

presentation. He decides to use V as a mannequin, and through a ruse, distracts his teacher long enough to draw a relatively accurate female reproductive...

is what is more important, and with Ash and Max's help, he is able to distract the fake Groudon. Eventually, Jirachi re-absorbs the energy used to create...

is an intentional distraction or obfuscation. As a Chewbacca defense distracts and misleads, it is an example of a red herring. It is also an example...

(June 17, 2022). "'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Review: A Perfectly Distracting YA Romantic Angst Piece of Summer Fluff". The Playlist. Archived from...

called the Late Wake or Fèill Fhadalach in Irish Gaelic. People would distract the cat-sìth away from the body with things like music, games, dance, or...

about to kill them both as revenge for his only nephew's death, but Linda distracts him while Emily retrieves a nearby spear gun with which to threaten him...

Killer executes Therrien and as the two policemen give him Buttman, Ward distracts the man while Bouchard unties Gabrielle. After a fight, the killer is...

presence at the institution is having an impact on the staff – both distracting the women and dancing with a male attendant on the lawn – he finds himself...

non-Christian beliefs into the celebration, as well as those holidays that distract from or replace the worship of Jehovah. In Islam, the largest holidays...

hysteria. His chaotic scene in between serves as a comic relief moment to distract the audience from the gruesome content. "Comic Relief". Literary Terms...

three years to let her pursue that career path. Her mother attempted to distract her with activities including soccer and schoolwork. Soccer almost convinced...

timeout request was only denied by officials, and thus could be used to distract the kickers. Players cannot run, dive into, cut, or throw their bodies...

spilled on her. Around town, several incendiary devices are set off, distracting first responders. A van carrying four school shooters crashes into the...

initially adopted his muted production style to avoid having the beats distract from his vocals. Ka's albums are often concept albums focused on particular...

After arranging for Miriam to travel in the same compartment as Fowler to distract him, Pierce travels down the roof of the train and unlocks the baggage...

grievous nonsense, most of which involves the two women's irritatingly distracting home lives. That's too bad for all sorts of reasons, including this one:...

figure intervenes, revealing himself as a Martian to the public. While he distracts Lobo, Clark uses Earth's sun to heal and ultimately defeat Lobo. That...

Monk, feeling trapped with nowhere to turn. After losing her job, she distracts herself by going to the movies, where she finds herself rewatching The...

ISBN 978-0-534-61716-5.[page needed] Smith, Robert B. (2014). "Social Conservatism, Distractors, and Authoritarianism: Axiological Versus Instrumental Rationality"....

series. Phelps gives the team a phony pep talk before Game 4, designed to distract them. The White Sox then defeat the Indians three times, forcing a seventh...

prevent a recently deceased loved one from turning into a revenant, or to distract a revenant so that he will not harm the living. Burying a corpse upside-down...

women's rights are in place, but director Katja von Garnier's use of distracting cinematic trickery and jarringly modern music meshes poorly with the...

had returned. He hired Doug, an actor, to separate Mike and Amanda, and distract Amanda while he waited to kill her. Inga apologizes for her role in Margaret's...

wall into the tree. He asks the bird to fly around the wolf's head to distract him, while he lowers a noose and catches the wolf by his tail. The wolf...

punished: his latest girlfriend Fay has left him for his best friend Larry. To distract Lucy, Harry tells her a story that he is currently writing: a semi-autobiographical...

shooting, he drops off the ladies at a nearby motel and berates Justice for distracting him during their journey. Jessie visits the ladies at the motel before...

attempt to increase support for conservative parties and policies and to distract the population from the SPD, they hoped to drum up patriotism in an external...

and unmasked as human criminals. Eventually, Scooby-Doo's cyber-double distracts the Phantom Virus so the original Scooby can grab the last box of Scooby...

War III. Tanaka's ninja troops attack the base, while Bond manages to distract Blofeld and create a diversion which allows him to open the hatch, letting...

the rodeo bullfighter is to protect a fallen rider from the bull by distracting the bull and providing an alternative target for the bull to attack,...

Battle of Cambrai, British Royal Engineers used them as diversions to distract the enemy from where the real battle was to be fought. The Bangalore torpedo...

Liana and Alexa reunite with the twins and go after Lydia. While the twins distract Slyder, Lydia creates a whirlpool and orders the girls to drown themselves;...

about to put on the jacket, The Viking Raiders appeared on the ramp to distract the team. Valhalla then attacked Dupri from behind and stole her jacket...

Amber locate Missy who is being savagely raped by Papa Hades. After distracting him, they manage to free her, but Hades soon returns and attacks them...

documentary, which had captured Brown's confession. While Yogi and Boo-Boo distract the security guards, Ranger Smith hooks up the camera to the jumbotron...

WWE Championship. During the match, John Cena came down to the ring, distracting Big Show, which led to Batista winning the match. Vickie Guerrero would...

moment, the rescue party arrives at the house. While the rest of them distract Lizzy's cat named Mr. Twitches, Vidia climbs upstairs to find Tinker Bell...

manifesto was merely a red herring, full of references and memes meant to distract observers. Following the 2019 Poway synagogue shooting, Vox relied on Evans'...

witnessed the rampage and fired multiple shots in the direction of Tyke, distracting her and causing her to flee away from Hirano before she could crush him...

go into the cave of the Flesh-Devouring Beast. Kilowatt volunteers to distract the beast so Luna and Ham can escape, and is devoured in the process. They...

want some as well; to that end, Barney would either disguise himself or distract Fred from his bowl of cereal using various creative and increasingly outrageous...

of Beckett's right hand. Beckett spots Miller and uses a ploy to both distract Cirujano and mouth Miller instruction to kill both of them with one shot...

Tantor, and the Professor had known about it all along and were simply distracting her while everyone else got the party set up. Tarzan gives Jane a diamond...

Kramer is equally desperate to continue peeping, and Jerry resorts to distracting himself with cartoons on TV. George feigns filial devotion to visit his...

infidelity is putting a great strain on the detective's home life and distracting him from his work. Leland soon learns that certain powerful interests...

name is Florence, which he says he prefers. Antoine initially is able to distract Cléo with his conversation, but she becomes more pensive as they near the...

Mephistopheles kill her enraged brother in a sword fight. Mephistopheles seeks to distract Faust by taking him to a Witches' Sabbath on Walpurgis Night, but Faust...

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the electric set, but refused to be filmed. Young felt the filming was distracting both performers and audience from the music. As a result, Young's name...

of misalignment, often to emphasize certain portions of the screen and distract the viewers from the background. This works because audiences are more...

Doomsday pounds him into the ground until Lois arrives and despairingly distracts the beast, professing her love for Superman. As Doomsday prepares to kill...

burn them all, but Lincoln distracts her with the crown before she could. Lily joins him as he and Morag face off; he distracts Morag by showing off his...

Chris Benoit. In the end, Benoit applied the Crippler Crossface on Cena, distracting the referee, whilst Palumbo and Stamboli performed the Kiss of Death...

noise-creating darts, which can be used to temporarily incapacitate or distract enemies. In India, Arbaaz Mir has a typical Mughal and Dravidian Hindu...

for his hard work. Instead, the younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their...

for the final stand against Sauron, the Battle of the Morannon. This distracts Sauron long enough for the One Ring to be destroyed in Mount Doom, causing...

in graphics to identify the same separation. Elements of an image that distract from the intended subject, or in the case of photography, objects in the...

his cell, causing the electricity to go out and calls for the guard, distracting him so that the trio can reach the last door. They cannot get any of...

drive is hidden in a boathouse in Central Park. At the boathouse, Claire distracts Collins and Armstrong while Phil strikes them with a paddle, and the couple...

Aki and Keiko win, and as they are leaving, Aki splits from Keiko to 'distract him.' Mitsuko eventually finds her way to a bridge, where a girl tells...

against an upper rank demon in the Entertainment District, in order to distract him and poison him with a kunai. Rams are well known for butting with their...

voyage, and they plan to kill the enemy general at the nearby base. Mac distracts the general's guards by shooting at them while on the raft, and is himself...

robot. Before he can crush the two, a reinvigorated Qwark flies in to distract him, giving the duo an opening to destroy the Biobliterator. Nefarious...

work camp the captives are being held in. After causing enough mayhem to distract Skynet's security forces, the team assaults the factory itself. Fighting...

Canada. He is intrigued by her newfound indifference to him, while Luc distracts Juliette. Kate and Charlie go back to her room, but Kate rejects his advances...

tells Hallie to drive the camper to a lake near Cisco Falls, while he distracts the police on Rising Star. Using his rodeo skills and the horse's speed...

the patient enacts guided movements such as swinging the leg or arms to distract the muscles' inertia; this is similar to the principle of mechanics known...

in Hispanic culture. The redness of the cape and movement is meant to distract the bull long enough for the Matador to take a sword and attack the bull...

escapes when the Yarnys cause a machine to malfunction, causing a mayhem distracting the adults, and the children are reunited. The Yarnys help the children...

(@TarenSK): "6/ My children are being pretty good for 3 and 5 yo, but very distracting. Hard for me to make good cost benefit calculations. I reluctantly go...

between at least two kinds of disorders of attention, one a disorder of distractibility, lack of sustained attention, and poor inhibition resembling present-day...

removing roadblocks and steps that cause extra thinking and actions that distract the user's attention from the task intended, thereby preventing the flow...

Geller is a master at an essential tool of the magician: misdirection or distracting peoples' attention. He is quite good at projecting an air of innocence...

McBride announced she would comply with the rule but called it an "effort to distract from the real issues facing this country". Under Article I, Section 2 of...

social skills. Disruption of focal consciousness, leading to apathy and distractibility Along with his research on monkeys and dogs, Leonardo Bianchi conducted...

defeats Deuce, but before he can detonate the bomb, Lily and Svetlana distract Gaspar; Deuce gains control of the detonator and is awarded the "Golden...

external distractor (toy), (2) waiting for delayed reward with an internal distractor (ideation), (3) waiting for a delayed reward (no distractor), (4) external...

'nature' – in non-Sāṃkhyan usage it does mean 'essential nature' – but that distracts from the heavy Sāṃkhyan stress on prakṛti's cognitive, mental, psychological...

remove unwanted branches, etc., using a "clone" tool. Removing these distracting elements draws focus to the subject, improving overall composition. Images...

hosted by Wilson and activates a bowling pin containing laughing gas to distract the guests as he steals a 50,000-karat ruby on loan from the Rajah of India...

Gamgee into Mordor to destroy it in Mount Doom, and the army is moving to distract Sauron from them. Before the battle, a nameless leader, the "Mouth of Sauron"...

spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin...

monitor due to his facial expressions made while recording being too distracting for the animators. What this did mean was that he could write notes in...

slip away to the Topkapı Palace. That evening, while Elizabeth and Cedric distract a lighthouse keeper and change the timing of the searchlight that illuminates...

anniversary ball. She infiltrates the event disguised as a singer and Liz helps distract Talbot while Terry connects a device to the computer so she can access...

between him and Jimbo. Ika Chu takes Hank to a private nightclub in order to distract him while secretly bribing people to respect Hank. At the same time, Ohga...

used three golden apples (gifts of Aphrodite, the goddess of love) to distract Atalanta. It took all three apples and all of his speed, but Hippomenes...

Hal Wallis advised her that female audiences needed romantic dramas to distract them from the reality of their lives. It became one of the better known...

influence (Book IV: Satire 10.81) "American Heritage Dictionary: to placate or distract". Yahoo. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Infoplease Dictionary...

Russell begs to continue with them. At a military roadblock, Russell distracts the soldiers and tries to shoot at them but is killed. The Duttens sneak...

right to mock liberals for "perceived conformism, frivolousness, and distractibility" who "blindly flit from news story to news story, issue to issue, changing...

The next day, during the trade, Venegas brings in fake protestors to distract Jan as he, Mason, and Claire flee to the safety of the presidential palace...

other groups to use sport as a means to improve their reputation by distracting or diverting attention away from activities considered by others as controversial...

Lynx helicopter which then circled the ship and fired machine guns to distract the pirates. The boarding party of 15 SWF killed 8 pirates and captured...

conspiracy theory, a look-alike named "Melissa" was originally hired to distract paparazzi, protecting a reclusive Lavigne. It alleges that Lavigne befriended...

and is embraced as their leader, upsetting Will. Will leads a riot to distract the Sheriff's men while Robin intercepts a caravan transporting the Sheriff's...

court, including Rambha, Menaka, and Tilottama, to go to Nara-Narayana and distract them through seduction. Accompanied by the god of love, Kama, and his consort...

When Elizabeth realizes that Sparrow is the Kraken's sole prey, she distracts him with a passionate kiss while handcuffing him to the mast. Unbeknownst...

as a gift or suggested he return it. This argument was successful at distracting a number of people from the funds and portraying his critics as nitpicking...

dream. Alex assumes the appearance of Tommy's murdered father in order to distract him, allowing the president to impale him with a spear. The president is...

be quiet for a minute, wasting the third wish. Tink blames Blaze for distracting her, but then, realizing that her temper is what had gotten her in trouble...

growing, as the second of his Twelve Labors. Hera sent a giant crab to distract Heracles, but he simply crushed it under his foot. Hera then placed it...

Gerouge Plantation. While Swink stays in the van and plays on his laptop to distract Bathory, Hutch and Abigail search the plantation. The Countess cheats and...

an encounter ensues, resulting in Amar knocking Vishal out when Roma distracts them. Vishal is then taken into custody. Kashinath informs Jindal that...

play dead. The second intruder almost discovers Miri's act before Parker distracts them towards the lake. After crossing it, she enters the neighbor's house...

sense of." NPR's Maureen Corrigan called the Professor "a pointlessly distracting character—a cartoon glutton, a double or triple agent for some spy outfit...

Matisse's paintings from a bank vault, disparaging the value of his work and distracting them from a more thorough search, thus protecting their collections....

Tiffany. Kirsty finds Julia's flayed-off skin and puts it on over her own to distract Channard and give Tiffany enough time to solve the Lament Configuration...

and Bower climbs down into the mutant pit to reach a ladder. While Manh distracts the mutants, Bower restarts the reactor, killing many mutants. Leland...

the Enforcers and enlists Norman Osborn to engineer super-villains to distract Spider-Man from his crimes. A gang war later breaks out between Tombstone...

Index (VCI), the Perceptual Organization Index (POI), the Freedom from Distractibility Index (FDI), and the Processing Speed Index (PSI). The WISC-IV was...

Danny through the Agent and sends a team to protect the author, but Jake distracts them, allowing Danny to shoot Fiennes. Danny merely wounds Fiennes, but...

episode "Gumbaldia" reveals that Mr. Cream Puff was created by Gumbald to distract Bubblegum, with Gumbald hoping to find a way to control her in the meantime...

criticised the band's use of skits between songs, describing them as "distracting" and a "nuisance". In addition, Andy Gill of The Independent remarked...

then rolled Blanchard out of the ring and covered Hart. Heenan stopped distracting the referee who turned to see the pin and began the count without realizing...

2015. Smith, Alexander, K. (November 19, 2011). "14 Awesome Webcomics To Distract You From Getting Things Done". Paste. Archived from the original on September...

supposedly from his bed. Realizing she is actually in Param’s bed, George distracts him with Carl's bribe money. Patti continues to approach him sexually...

stash of heroin in the trunk. Castlebeck arrives, forcing the crew to distract him while they dispose of the drugs. He leaves, having ascertained that...

the SAS operation and Vernon is instructed to do anything to stall or distract the terrorists from the assault. During the assault, led by Firmin, Salim...

the gray buckeye is a brown butterfly with eyespots on its wings that distract predators from its body. Junonia grisea was formerly considered a subspecies...

protecting the families from harm and sometimes approaching enemies to distract them so that his family can escape unnoticed. Many species, though, display...

(objective/subjective) Perceptions Thoughts Insight Cognition DIG FAST: Distractibility Indiscretion (DSM-IV's "excessive involvement in pleasurable activities")...

occurs "early" or "late". There were also arguments about to what degree distracting stimuli are processed. Modern research on attention began when Colin...

harassment. They also make crude remarks toward Amy and play loud music to distract David while he writes. They often leave early when they want to go hunting...

kidnappers' van, and an SUV driven by one of the kidnappers' henchmen arrives to distract them. A chase and shootout ensue, alerting Turkish police, and ends when...

When the body is positioned at an inverted angle, body weight creates a distractive force that may temporarily increase intervertebral spacing, reduce pressure...

help soothe humanity toward a sense of peace. The beauty of his music distracts the population from its egocentrism and tendency to fight, causing the...

classroom is lively and boisterous, chanting for Arsenal, which she says distracts her students. Sarah complains about him to her flatmate Jo, who jokingly...

his love interest. Emmerich decided that casting well known actors would distract from the realistic feel of the prehistoric setting. "If like, Jake Gyllenhaal...

was "Perhaps I ought to chalk it", in reference to his gleaming head distracting his opponents. Thorne also appeared in the "Romford Rap" video with the...

confrontation, but Clancy surprises him. Nonetheless, the killer escapes after distracting police by saying Clancy has a gun. Cowles discovers the killer is Charles...

disrupts the carefully kept schedule of his society with methods such as distracting factory workers from their tasks by showering them with thousands of...

drinks instead. An armed Stoppard arrives and a shootout ensues; Sim distracts Dennis with a molotov cocktail, and Stalker nearly takes a bullet to save...

menstruation. Sometimes the pain increases over time.[citation needed] Pain may distract from feeling pleasure and excitement. Both vaginal lubrication and vaginal...

disappearance, Leppert appeared in the film Scarface (1983) as the girl who distracts the lookout car during the bloody chainsaw scene. Before that, among other...

Full-duplex audio systems like telephones can create echo, which is distracting to users and impedes the performance of modems. Echo occurs when the...

rather lame and perfunctory, with wackiness dialed up to 11 in an effort to distract from how fundamentally bland it is." Sim subsequently gave a "C+" to the...

stated that the album "finds solace in confronting" and does not seek to distract from what is happening in the world, but instead to "make sense in this...

look for the poles and miss much of the rest, the name is simply too distracting." Fred and Florence Olsen were the original purchasers of Blue Poles...

money, Terry, and Joe in body bags while Kate (who was in on the plan) distracts the police by pretending to pass out in shock upon seeing the "bodies"...

a woman (he had cheated on her in the past, causing suspicion). This distracts him, causing their car's collision with a truck. Jake is injured badly...

Enraged, Raizo uses a "shadow blending" technique for the first time to distract and kill Lord Ozunu. Mika, seemingly fatally wounded, is in fact saved...

Jesse and Jade instigate a domestic dispute between Chucky and Tiffany to distract them. In the commotion, Jade kicks Tiffany into the RV's oven while Jesse...

primates. The chamber is often sound-proof and light-proof to avoid distracting stimuli. Operant conditioning chambers have at least one response mechanism...

the Swamp Thing's practical suit and found that any CGI used was not distracting. Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter praised the creepy atmosphere...

Seeing Carlo Ponti has come to visit his wife Loren on set, Sellers distracts himself with Loren's stand-in, and the two have sex in Sellers' Rolls-Royce...

nicotinic receptor agonists ABT-418, ABT-089, and (-)-nicotine reduce distractibility in adult monkeys". Psychopharmacology. 136 (1): 50–8. doi:10.1007/s002130050538...

girls' spirits appear and Angela begs them to help. The ghosts scream, distracting Mrs. Greene and allowing Angela to free herself and kill her. She tells...

reveals he killed the father of his young neighbor the Kid. Fairlane distracts Smiley, then kills him with a sleeve pistol. Ultimately, Fairlane and...

Slow on Haiti Troop Withdrawal". Huffington Post. "Serbia is trying to distract us from the real war criminals". The Daily Telegraph. London. 2010-03-18...

on their way back to Earth aboard the Hermes spacecraft, so as not to distract them. Watney plans to drive 3,235 kilometres (2,010 mi) to Schiaparelli...

Retrieved April 22, 2014. "ABC Television - ABC2 - Arthur - Opposites Distract/ Just The Ticket - 3:30pm Friday, April 26, 2013". Abc.net.au. April 26...

the line to himself and goes to save Kelly, using Derrick's corpse to distract the piranhas. He ties her to him and lights a flare after releasing the...

subconscious or discovering. There's so much attention on the band, it can be distracting at times. I really feel the need to walk away from it while I still care...

get to land unharmed. They meet Struthers and Ahmad, who flew a plane to distract the crocodile. Meanwhile, Rachel, Larry, Scott, Kerri, and Thad venture...

Later on, Chewbacca and Rey help the Resistance by using the Falcon to distract First Order TIE fighters. Chewbacca returns in The Rise of Skywalker (2019)...

performing humorous and strange actions in the background, and may even distract and annoy the news reporter. Individuals aware that a news broadcast will...

You ?". Retrieved 10 January 2021. Mau, Dhani. "Not Even Lady Gaga Could Distract From the Goth Magic of Marc Jacobs' Fall 2016 Collection". Fashionista...

little problem with using sex to help the team in their missions (once distracting Joseph Goebbels by performing oral sex on him) or even if she just feels...

represents how fast a hearthling will gain experience and limits their distractibility. Body represents the stamina and health of the hearthling. Spirit represents...

word of his father's death right away, as she was worried the news would distract Aleksandr from a chemistry exam. Trotsky interpreted that Vladimir and...

found that the rotary controller for the satellite navigation was less distracting to use than the touchscreen. Top Gear magazine felt that the coupé's...

later kills Lizzie after taking her outside to "look at the flowers" to distract and calm her. Tyreese reveals that Lizzie had admitted to being the one...

one occasion, Lady Blossom hopped onto the ring apron in an attempt to distract the referee from the action in the ring. As she was arguing with the referee...

Tyrannosaurus when a group of Skybax riders, humans riding on Quetzalcoatlus, distract and scare away the Tyrannosaurus. The Skybax squadron leader, Oonu, offers...

locks him in his room. He starts a fire to set off the smoke alarm, which distracts Lucy so he can escape. Jesse calls the Army and gets through to Colonel...

Retrieved 16 February 2015. "Saheed Balogun: Talks About My Failed Marriage Distract My Creativity". This Day. 14 April 2014. Archived from the original on...

nesting; a sweet call made to rally other goldfinches to the nest and distract predators, and a bearbee used to signal to the nestlings to quiet them...

have a back drop to place behind the subject, and the background may be distracting. However, extremely wide apertures are less frequently used, because...

unlike other whales, can eject a red-brown fluid when startled, likely to distract predators, similar to squid. This cloud can cover 100 m2 (1,100 sq ft)...

Independent believed "Gillan is totally convincing as a woman whose beauty distracts from her brains." Gillan appeared in The Life of Chuck, reuniting with...

rest serve as 'distractors'. The study participants try to monitor the changing positions of the targets as they and the distractors move about. At the...

2009). "'Pelham 123'remake goes down for the count: Extraneous car chases distract from what could have been". Today.com. Retrieved June 11, 2009. Travers...

enemies but to generate a partial health damage for their societies or to distract the enemy in order to prevent or hinder attacks. The following motivations...

territory, Cú Chulainn battles Aífe, and manages to defeat her through distracting her with lies. With his sword at her throat, he bargains with her that...

blocked by a horde of zombies. Joon-yi, Yu-jin, and Elder Kim arrive and distract the zombies with their car. The two vehicles escape with Hwang and Unit...

WWF for over a month, Ryan returned on the May 16, episode WWF Heat, distracting Droz during a tag team match, causing a loss against The Brood. Ryan...

performance tests showed evidence of poor concentration skills, high distractibility, and difficulty with visual-spatial tasks. The patient’s performance...

towards it. At this time, they mentally block out all other pens as distractors to aid in closing in on just the red pen. After repeatedly picking the...

body attached to the males' spermatophore and consumed by the female, to distract her from eating the male's spermatophore and thereby increase his paternity...

book's misrepresentation of scientific facts and global warming denial distracts from the story. The book is thought to have popularized climate change...

something and add to it without needing direct attention and without distracting from what they illustrate. The other thing is the focus of the attention...

off a cliff, mortally wounding her. Frederick pilots a Sopwith Camel to distract the monsters, and the demigods escape to a nearby airfield, where Zoë dies...

Aadhavan tells Bannerjee that he lied to Thara about being Madhavan to distract her suspicions. On Thara's birthday, a flashback reveals that Aadhavan...

truisms that offer seemingly simple answers to complex questions or that distract attention away from other lines of thought. They are often sayings that...

and the Hilbert curve is sometimes used because it does not create the distracting patterns that would be visible to the eye if the order were simply left...

creates a lava beast and an ice beast to destroy the world, but Vinny distracts the monsters long enough for Kida to retrieve the spear and vanquish the...

child. Frustrated with their questioning, Carolyn leaves the hotel to distract herself and discovers that her husband has cancelled all her credit cards...

to stop Cunth from getting the rocket operation passwords. MacGruber distracts the guards and Piper kills most of the men, but cannot stop the transfer...

hyperactivity and impulsivity symptoms but more symptoms of inattention and distractibility. This inattention can be interpreted being "spacey" or being forgetful...

in its upper tier. With its small size, the arena traps in noise, and distracts the opposing team. This gives a boost to players towards the end of the...

a creature who wants to have all the Buddies to himself and ends up distracting the children and taking Goliath, Nessa and Bongo to a distant island...

insanity. When Mortimer returns, Einstein offers him a chance to leave, distracting him while Jonathan takes Spenalzo to the cellar. Mortimer decries the...

that "There are some obvious holes in the storyline but don't let that distract you from the beautiful cinematography (some scenes were shot in Mauritius)...

Crusher helps the cadets find the Protostar and vanishes after promising to distract the Loom to buy them time. In the second half of the season, Crusher is...

while being knocked down. Buddy takes out his brass knuckles, but Vincent distracts him, and he drops the weapon, which Brei picks up and slips to Jerry....

Ziggler's match against Alberto Del Rio, and helping Ziggler win by distracting Del Rio. In 2016, Paul played the young Louis Drax's father who becomes...

Murderbot crew. Throughout the narrative, Murderbot grapples with a distracting event marked as <redacted>, affecting its performance, particularly in...

result from automatic behaviors that are triggered by external factors, distracting users from carrying out their intended goals. There are many different...

the sacrificial rock outside Joppa, and the Kraken is summoned. Bubo distracts the beast until Perseus, whose strength was secretly restored by Zeus...

along with Ansari and Mahalakshmi, they leave for Mumbai by road. Aangre distracts the team and tries to foil the mission repeatedly, but fails. En route...

lines "He buzzes like a fridge / He's like a detuned radio" refer to distracting, metaphorical background noise that Yorke called "fridge buzz", one of...

Jimmy sneak into the frat house. Jimmy throws himself from the balcony to distract Teddy, allowing Kelly to sneak into Teddy's bedroom as Mac fights him off...

good performer. The plot is so interesting that you hardly get time to distract yourself." Amandeep Narang of ABP News rated the film 4 out of 5 stars...

Red Skull pulls out a remote trigger for a nuclear bomb, but Rogers distracts him with the recording of the De Santis family's murder. Before the Skull...

on Salim. They concoct an elaborate plan to steal his laptop, and Ria distracts him while her friends hack his computer, but they find nothing incriminating...

that while the scene was a "huge delight" for the audience, it was too distracting due to the real Edith Wilson's staunchly anti-suffrage stance. The musical...

Trend's apartment building, seems about to go back to the store, Trend distracts him with a lecture about "the grand design" and sends Victor on a quest...

rat. When Roy orders his men to torture her for information, Leonard distracts him by revealing the reason why he came to Chicago: his wife and daughter...

leadership of a 'Wilderness Girl' troop to bond with her daughter and distract herself from divorce proceedings. Neither film was successful with critics...

could be Gowen's second leg, but ended up costing his team the match by distracting the referee. On July 28, Gowen and U-Gene defeated the Ring Rydas to...

In part the brothers left because they felt that the movie-making was distracting from other parts of the church's ministry, with Alex telling The Hollywood...

2026 Bacon, Simon (2019). Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen. McFarland. ISBN 9781476675381...

sees The Stuff as a widely ambitious movie that fails mainly due to distracting glitches and a lack of plausibility, specifically, "What we have here...

involvement with the computer and Forest. Alisa and Fujiko play piano to distract it while Lupin and Jigen blow it up from the outside. With the threat eliminated...

believes that the ransomware attack was designed to go global so as to distract from the directed cyberattack on Ukraine. The cost of the cyberattack had...

using unorthodox methods of teaching the class subject at hand – might distract them too much from their studies. Ms. Meara was the level-headed assistant...

assist fighting Amy in "The Long Way Home", and rampages through Tokyo to distract their enemies in "Wolves at the Gate". In "Time of Your Life, Part One"...

hocus-pocus, which causes his crisis, is irrelevant and weakens the movie by distracting us." On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 55% approval...

reads, "Underwater's strong cast and stylish direction aren't enough to distract from the strong sense of déjà vu provoked by this claustrophobic thriller's...

could be Gowen's second leg. Though U-Gene cost his team the match by distracting the referee, Gowen forgave him and announced that the team would wrestle...

Formula 3 cars for the filming gave Garner the urge to race for real, distracting him from his career in front of the camera. He formed his own American...

to destroy the Machine. He plans to sacrifice himself to the Machine, distracting it long enough for the others to retrieve the talisman. 1 redeems himself...

escape right before death. Farquhar experiences an intense delusion to distract him from his inevitable death. The moment of horror that the reader experiences...

are believed to have assisted the final Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in distracting his pursuers outside the cave of Thaw'r, in the great Hijra. As the Prophet...

Earle's rent boy appears in person at an important speech of Earle's, distracting him; subsequently, Earle is harassed by reporters who have been told...

additional scene in which David suggests that Bean stuff the turkey while he distracts the Griersons during the dinner party. After losing his watch in the turkey...

throughout. Nick calls for another take. This time, an incessant beeping sound distracts the actors. Nobody can tell where it is coming from and Nick becomes furious...

the Great Mosque of Aleppo has no evidence of direct influence and could distract from her argument. Architecture critic Rowan Moore of The Observer named...

but is disoriented by the runes she had earlier drawn on her arms, distracting him long enough for a pair of police officers to barge in, and shoot...

lighten their stomach load to ease take-off. The vomited meal residue may distract a predator, allowing the bird to escape. In Catalonia, the Egyptian vulture...

Ronald McDonald House has been criticised as an attempt by McDonald's to distract from its role in contributing to childhood obesity and animal welfare issues...

jarring secondary plot lines that try to mix in social commentary are distracting." Greg Wheeler of The Review Geek gave a rating of 5 out of 10 and said...

deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another. Managing audience attention is the aim of all theater...

(goat). Some ethnographers argue the Orteke began as a shamanic tool to distract spirits or to act as a "spirit vessel" during healing rituals. In orteke...

world. During this crossing over, Susannah has sex with an incubus, distracting it while Eddie continues to carve the key which will allow Jake safe...

forces were distributed along the river under three phalanx officers to distract Porus' forces. The strategy was successful and they crossed the Hydaspes...

Barcelona S.C in Guayaquil, where he performed his tactical role of distracting the opposition´ defense very well, but when it came to scoring, he wasted...

hostage as Louis and 2050 Adam remove an algorithm memory unit. 2050 Adam distracts Sorian and Christos enough for younger Adam to free himself, resulting...

surrender Viola, but he is upset with him for lying. Ben uses his Noise to distract Prentiss and his men with an image of Viola, while Todd and Viola escape...

Destiny had a vision that Azazel would conquer the world if they didn't distract him by making him think he had a son, leading to the birth of Nightcrawler...

necessitated by changes in Charlestown, including new rail lines and other distracting development. Olmsted himself was eventually treated at McLean, but there...

Prudom, Laura (December 6, 2017). "'Game of Thrones' comes to theaters to distract you from the long wait for Season 8". Mashable. Ziff Davis. Archived from...

stop believing", Jack confesses Davey was always his favorite playmate. Distracting Davey by asking for a smoke, Jack fades and vanishes. When Davey calls...

threaten to kill him unless Chance lets Joe go. Colorado and Feathers distract the men long enough for Chance to get his rifle, and Colorado and he shoot...

Hank Rosenbaum. Under the guise of seeking money for a charity, Annie distracts him while Jay searches the house for the tablet. In the process, she tries...

are spots in the movie where Zellweger's affected manners become too distracting and overshadow everything else around her...Try as she might, Zellweger's...

were careful not to do anything — physically or musically — that would distract attention away from the band's pop-punk marquee players." Box Car Racer...

as the style rules are loaded and applied; however, the shift may be distracting. Related problems include flash of invisible text and flash of faux text...

to the outer doors of the safe. Lightfoot, cross-dressing as a woman, distracts the Western Union office's security guard, deactivates the ensuing alarm...

they had gone in a circle and are back at the lake. Distraught, Stephen distracts himself by carving a spear to fish with. He accidentally stabs his own...

poly-traumas, life-threatening injuries take immediate priority and can distract from recognizing the lesion. This can delay or complicate recognizing and...

tying her to her truck's steering wheel. A gunfight ensues, but Doug distracts Oerstadt with information from his future interrogation, and Claire rams...

not part of the script so I didn't want it to be distracting if Noah thought it would be distracting." Alda has received widespread acclaim for his performance...

unconscious and tied up. When she wakes up, Sunny is strangling Sunanda; to distract him, Shivani talks about Sunny's mother and his past, which she learned...

astonishing, such uncanny precision that not even her heady loveliness distracts us from her acting. Miss this performance at your soul's peril." Mel Gussow...

may enhance the effects of therapy, as can service to others, which can distract from the self-absorption that tends to go with anxiety problems. Also,...

leading the CBI to the truth. In a final confrontation, Arjun fights and distracts Martin long enough for Anjali and Narayan to arrive with their force,...

positive or negative consequences from some course of action in an attempt to distract from the initial discussion. Appeal to emotion – manipulating the emotions...

is used primarily to restrict time spent on social media and similar distracting services while working and studying. By 2025, the application reported...

species of reptile, the oral mucosa may be a bright color that serves to distract the predator". Gaping is part of the shark agonistic display, and is also...

Goonies' hands and make them walk the plank until Chunk and Sloth arrive and distract the Fratellis long enough for the Goonies to jump overboard and swim to...

coastal setting, and gives the film a visual glamour that is mercifully distracting. Mr. Mulligan seems to have been more interested in sprucing up the material...

Mary, they find Gabriel and Jerry. Thomas kills Jerry, while Katherine distracts Gabriel when her wild gunshot misses him and blows up Mary's trailer home...

Javier's family travels to NYC. Rodrigo is enjoying himself, until he distracts their bus driver, inadvertently causing Abby to be killed which traumatizes...

"Non distrarmi mentre gioco…"" [Luis Alberto, having a wife break: "Don't distract me while I'm playing…"] (in Italian). Lazio News 24. Retrieved 25 August...

Alejandro Piña. Doña Chepita, as she was called, watched the streets to distract the Haitian authorities and thus prevent them from noticing the meeting...

Retrieved March 2, 2017. "Ariana Grande Setlist at AsiaWorld-Arena, Islands Distracts, Honkong". setlist.fm. Archived from the original on December 23, 2021...

Thiyagesh as a scout. Ravi, Mani and Nikitha go to Dharmaraj's house and distract Dharmaraj's pregnant wife, Bhanu, while Ravi tries to steal the statue...

with the correct answer called the key and the incorrect answers called distractors. Only one answer may be keyed as correct. This contrasts with multiple...

political climate. Ashwat nevertheless convinces him to greenlit the tests and distract media attention from Pokhran. This gives Ashwat and the team time as they...

to ram Bumpo. Nolan's first mate, Novak, cuts the dead female loose to distract their attacker, but the orca jumps the boat and takes him with it under...

hears Molly and Polly call for help, but Barsinister ingests a pill and distracts Shoeshine. When the German Shepherds recover, Shoeshine convinces them...

service of nothing", remarking that "plot complication and freneticism can't distract us from noticing that the movie has no insights, no point, no urgency and...

formed posse meet at Evans's ranch. McElroy arranges for a decoy wagon to distract Wade's gang in pursuit. During the journey, Tucker and McElroy provoke...

objectives require the player character to use items and/or the environment to distract shibito from their activity, in order for them to achieve a goal. Others...

sheriff. He asks to see what's in the box, however the adults' arrival distract him, and they invite him to dinner. Meanwhile, Jake prevents Tazer from...

Gillmore intended to repeat his assault, but first executed feints to distract the Confederates' attention, at the Battle of Grimball's Landing on July...

(November 12, 2021). "'Clifford the Big Red Dog': Some small-minded dialogue distracts from the huge canine hero". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved November 17,...

sword tassels entirely. The movement of the tassel may have served to distract opponents, and some schools further claim that metal wires or thin silk...

top of the Pearl, acquiescing to the trade for Georgia. However, Zhao distracts Botha, allowing himself and Will to kill Botha's thugs. Botha grabs Georgia...

procedure". The NTSB concluded that conducting such nonessential chatter can distract pilots from their flying duties during the critical phases of flight, such...

the story, enjoying the fact that they were platonic as opposed to "distracting us with a forbidden love angle." She called the manga's art "serviceable...

goalkeeper Grobbelaar was wobbling his legs in the Liverpool goal, hoping to distract Graziani. The tactic appeared to have worked as Graziani placed his penalty...

words line up approximately above one another in several loose lines, a distracting river of white space may appear. Rivers appear in right-aligned, left-aligned...

that his captor is female, Donkey begins spouting flattery in order to distract her. Dragon becomes infatuated with him, despite the fact that her love...

infants from ages three months to three years, examined how infants' distractibility influences the effect of maternal responsiveness on early language...

Bond to stop Le Chiffre from raising the money. Le Chiffre attempts to distract Tremble by performing elaborate magic tricks, but fails to prevent Tremble...

"Berlin's vanishing nightclubs: 'The open sex in all corners can be distracting'". The Irish Times. Oblu, Ioana (4 January 2023). "All About KitKat Berlin"...

hires a heckler named Donald Floyd to taunt him at a pro-am event. Donald distracts Happy by repeatedly calling him a "jackass", hindering his gameplay. A...

training camp and hesitantly takes Janet out on a date, unsure if it will distract from his goal of making the team. Janet confesses she doesn't consider...

detective after this short story; he felt the Sherlock Holmes stories were distracting him from more serious literary efforts and that "killing" Holmes off...

spontaneously used, mostly as a heel, either to distract promo, build more heat to heels, or used to distract referees on their count-outs to force a result...

Korea and adjacent territories. Russia, meanwhile, saw war as a means of distracting its populace from government repression and of rallying patriotism in...

flee into a Cyberdyne-owned factory, where Reese activates machinery to distract it, but it eventually discovers them. Reese lodges his last pipe bomb into...

Bond's ego and at first is unwilling to pretend to be his girlfriend to distract the other players at the high-stakes Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament hosted...

dumps her corpse into the river. When the creature returns, Westridge distracts it for Terri and Danny to retreat. Serone breaks free during the attack...

anything or anybody to distract from their directorial prowess. There were actors who were good and capable, but they would distract from the special effects...

employee. Some senders may excessively rely upon large, colorful, or distracting fonts, making messages more difficult to read. For those especially bothered...

watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus. According to Ovid, he did so by first lulling...

found to parasitize the cavity nest of Coletos (Sarcops calvus). Males may distract the hosts so that the female gets a chance to lay an egg in the nest. More...

but the Devil Hulk breaks free and confronts him. The Leader briefly distracts Devil Hulk by turning into Brian Banner before transforming into a crab-like...

widening economic disparity.” Kennedy argues that works like Maid may distract readers from larger, systemic problems of inequity, inadvertently preventing...

bulletproof clothing, and uses them to rampage through Gotham City and distract the police while his men commit robberies. Strange administers the serum...

interests. Many web surfers regard web advertisements as annoying because they distract from a web page's actual content or waste bandwidth. In some cases, web...

separate ways for a time, but the Tod eventually returns to assist them by distracting a lab-hired gunman who then falls to his death, allowing the starving...

Al-Qaeda, Vickers advocated a policy of disruption, raids intended to distract and keep militants off-balance such that they are unable to organize and...

said, "I worked to build a natural, inviting New York look that didn't distract from the unfolding story, but brought cinematic punctuation to its important...

two finally admit their love for each other, but Carla realizes she is distracting him from his goals. Carla decides to move out and continue on to San...

Killzone, including inconsistent AI, occasional bugs, frame-rate issues, distracting graphical glitches, repetition of the same voices, short draw distance...

contain two or three eggs. Adults (possibly the female) may feign injury to distract potential predators away from the nest. The eggs have a pale mauve ground...

found the physical buttons in the Titanium model they tested to be less distracting than touch-sensitive pads found in some other contemporary cars. Both...

the jungle. Baloo and Bagheera follow him in close pursuit and help to distract Shere Khan alongside Raksha and the rest of Mowgli's wolf pack so that...

having been driven to the scene by Lars, and fakes a heart attack, distracting Cruella and causing her to knock out Jasper and Horace and incapacitate...

full speed before being hit by Donaldson from a helicopter after George distracts Devereau. He falls to the floor, and is then decapitated by an oncoming...

out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little...

more intense than in non-autistic people, is frequently referred to as "distracting". Conversational tones and behaviors seen in many autistic people are...

Isherwood, Charles (February 2, 2022). "Review: A flashy 'MJ' dazzles and distracts with dance". Broadway News. Retrieved May 13, 2022. Feldman, Adam (February...

live with her boyfriend. Each time Jissu tries to propose her, the tree distracts him in some way or other indirectly. She is only shown smooching her boyfriend...

baby doll in one scene, which was said to look obviously artificial and distracting to critics and audiences. In at least one media screening of the film...

citizens with fervent declarations of loyalty, the Party effectively distracts the oppressed population from its many discomforts. The Two Minutes Hate...

and reduce the control of the game for the player to a few buttons, distracting, and turning interactivity into a job. Also, QTEs may frustrate the player...

of the match (including a second) getting involved; this may involve distracting or assaulting one or more of the participants in the match. in the can...

black and white. "There's nothing to distract you", said Bogdanovich, "Ryan's blond hair and blue eyes don't distract you, and you focus on the action in...

emphasizes the novel's view of religion as a limiting worldview that distracts from the truth of life's ultimate absurdity. In his 1956 analysis of the...

and a half stars out of four stating that "Levitas makes choices that distract from the central crisis. But when he pays attention to the victims, Minamata...

taken to Witch Mountain, a secret US government base. Harlan and his men distract the soldiers with Bruno's taxi while the others escape to Witch Mountain...

disappearance. Maya is caught with Eoin's head while trying to escape as Jamie distracts Daddy Whelan at the front door, forcing Maya to flee into the woods to...

credit for the world's first pregnant man. Warned by his colleague, Larry distracts the press by arriving with Angela, discrediting Banes, who is fired by...

criminals may use several individuals to shoplift, with some participants distracting store employees while another participant steals items. Amateurs typically...

an early segment of the game, the player controlling Vincent needs to distract a nurse and guard, so the player controlling Leo can find a chisel needed...

into the baby-making machine, causing it to rapidly produce babies and distract the storks. Hunter seizes control of a giant crane and tries to destroy...

"Clinton's airstrike motives questioned Many wonder if attack was meant to distract from Lewinsky matter". The Baltimore Sun. 23 August 1998. Archived from...

conclusion. For example, the red herring fallacy introduces misleading or distracting information in the premises. It often changes the subject by presenting...

thought Johnson used too many filmmaking quirks and when Johnson was not distracting the audience he had his actors doing it. The DVD and Blu-ray became available...

throws Clara a piece of chalk so she can hide. When Eduardo returns, Paula distracts him long enough for Clara to escape and find help. As Clara tentatively...

infiltrates the compound and accuses Zemo of possessing Jewish ancestry, which distracts Zemo's henchmen long enough for Deadpool to kill them and Zemo. An alternate...

Sweden. King poisons Eggsy's drink, but Eggsy switches glasses while distracting him, letting King poison himself instead, and extracts the chip from...

female gang member, records Steve's torture on her phone. Jenny manages to distract the gang so Steve can free himself, but she is unable to nurse his mortal...

praised the acting, characterisation and story, but found the narration distracting and unnecessary. For a review in The Radio Times, Eleanor Bley Griffiths...

usually as a self-preservation mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape. Some animals are able to regenerate...

Tuscarora's girlfriend Maria hides them in her house, while her friend Amelita distracts Hendricks' men. Hendricks has Tuscarora arrested on trumped-up charges...

everybody else; they manage to hide before Lucas, Will, Nancy, and Jonathan distract the Mind Flayer. Billy finds Mike, Eleven, and Max on his own. He knocks...

decided to finish them first. He sent 2 legates to flank the rebels and distract them. When the force of a few thousand arrived, they were surrounded by...

February 1935, Labutkin killed a lonely worker. He used his wife, Maria, to distract his last victims. On 18 March 1935, Labutkin made another attack on a couple...