distractingly

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Then let that low moan be A while more easeful, trembling remote and strange, far oversea; So shall the easeless heart of love rest then, or only sigh, Hearing the swallows cry THE DARKSOME NIGHTINGALE Why dost thou, darksome Nightingale, Sing so distractingly--and here?

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  • But having a powerful visual, like the distractingly entertaining Food Map, and readily accessible information on the Internet, just might help the creators of this project achieve their mission of making the food network visible. —  Worldchanging: Bright Green
  • Inclusions on the list cover: grevious slang and / or grammar flubs, items being attached to ones belt and / or beltloops, distractingly-bad table manners, the Lance Armstrong Livestrong bracelets, questionable footwear, the PT Cruiser, those loud, screechy WOO HOOs that some girls are wont to do, excessive high-fiving, stuffed animals, certain tattoos, blatant stupidity, and so on and so forth. —  Les Cadeaux
  • Then let that low moan be A while more easeful, trembling remote and strange, far oversea; So shall the easeless heart of love rest then, or only sigh, Hearing the swallows cry THE DARKSOME NIGHTINGALE Why dost thou, darksome Nightingale, Sing so distractingly--and here? —  Poems New and Old
  • Another day there was a nursery-girl there with a baby that cried; on another, still more distractingly, a fashionable young French bride who went kodaking round while her husband talked with an archaeological official, evidently Spanish. —  Familiar Spanish Travels
  • Tom Cruise is distractingly bad in Hitler assassin film 'Valkyrie' —  CTV News RSS Feed
 

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