distraction

Day by day, it drives people to distraction by diverting energy to mindless legal compliance.

There was a handy distraction in the Che t-shirt the tourist was wearing while celebrating the death.

The New York Daily News declared that “Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has unleashed a weapon of mass distraction.”

All of it feels like a twisted dream—a potential distraction from the depressing post-Manson environment of SoCal.

Still others see the presence of guns on campus as a distraction at best, and at worst, a danger.

They were still a little perturbed by the brilliance and distraction, and it was as an alien that she moved among them still.

He tried to console her, to amuse her, but what distraction could be found to appeal to that monstrously apathetic nature?

But he saw at once that he must not let her see any such feeling; the least hint of it would have driven her to distraction.

Among them was her aunt, pointing with distraction to the fiery edifice, and apparently urging the dragoon to enter it.

Caroline affects a sort of distraction sufficiently well played to induce the belief that she is not listening.