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- adverb In a
distracting manner.
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Examples
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One series brings together photographs from 1970s men's magazines, with their suggestions of framing narrative around the central act of revelation or performance, their distractingly busy decor and so it seems in comparison with the contemporary images unnecessary props and other complexities in the background.
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It's only slightly marred by occasional awkward prose from Campbell, who also has a distractingly tendency to use the word "bronze", especially when describing second-in-command McReady.
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I'm one of the lucky ones I suppose, whose dreams are balanced between distractingly epic and restively mundane.
Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon musey_q 2010
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Did anybody else think that Erin's eye makeup was distractingly uneven?
Taking the boot off 2009
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She ended her speech, delivered distractingly while looking off-camera, by saying "We the people...."
Obama's SOTU, Ryan's response, Bachmann's banality Jonathan Capehart 2011
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I'm one of the lucky ones I suppose, whose dreams are balanced between distractingly epic and restively mundane.
Howard Hughes and the Wretched Crack of Noon musey_q 2010
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I like the guy, but he's got a distractingly large and odd shaped nose.
John Krasinski is the Top Choice for Captain America? | /Film 2010
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Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011
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"Invictus" star Morgan Freeman is a familiar and comforting presence in his film appearances, almost distractingly so at this point in his career (particularly when he's playing more of a villain role, as in "Wanted").
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CONS: I could nitpick that one character distractingly sounded too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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