Violet predicts that Olivia will careen down a highway, driving distractedly.
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You check Facebook and distractedly tune into a new Facebook Original Series.
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She murmured distractedly, mostly to herself, as she fumbled for her jewelry.
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He squirmed in his seat and kept glancing out the window distractedly.
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Distractedly, Fatima rubbed his back in circular motions until he fell quiet again.
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He showed off his art distractedly, directing the occasional complaint at a friend.
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I took his hand so distractedly I can't have failed to seem rude.
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But he talked distractedly to the doctor, and said he did not recall having stomach problems.
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Fortunately, the driver, distractedly cruising on the M6 in Cheshire, was spotted by Highway England's safety cab.
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During our car trip, he was boyishly restless, drumming on his knees and distractedly whistling a tune.
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One, dark-haired and with a nose stud, clutched a packet of tobacco and distractedly rolled a cigarette.
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Distractedly, I watched a battered-looking thrush hopping backward and forward across the lawn in search of a worm.
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Roma children, with drums wedged between their legs, line Pristina's main street - Mother Teresa Boulevard - singing, distractedly, for money.
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He showed me around the apartment, distractedly waving toward a new leather couch and indicating the view of the city.
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As she walks out of the R29 office, she types distractedly on her iPhone, sharp nails tapping furiously at the glass.
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We might see a pair of young lovers lost in an embrace, and two old gentlemen distractedly gambling with scratch cards.
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I spent more time listening to her, and less time distractedly nodding and mumbling while checking my inbox or tapping out tweets.
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Joe Wright's films always have a way of looking brilliant, but not distractedly so, and that seems to be the case here, too.
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Wanting it in easy reach for his next one, he distractedly fumbled for it, he told a police detective — and hit Ms. Butler's car.
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The plot — which distractedly follows John Henry's attempts to protect a Honduran woman from his former gang — is burlesque and the dialogue is a trip.
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What we do know is that Heidi's boss, Colin (Bobby Cannavale) calls her all the time, distractedly barking orders at her about the "data" they need.
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If you're like me, chances are good you just distractedly clicked on this article while scrolling through your feed in, or while waiting for, a Lyft.
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Chris distractedly running a stove lighter over her crotch makes visceral how our culture sees women's desire as a problem — one Chris doesn't know how to solve.
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In Tesla's case, we have no way of knowing whether some of the Autopilot users would have been driving so distractedly that they would have caused accidents regardless.
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Later, when she was distractedly rummaging through the office to find one of her older albums for me, I asked if there was someone else I could bother.
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From the portals of one of the hotels absorbed by government departments darted the slight figure of a girl clerk, distractedly gesticulating while another stroke of Big Ben resounded.
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"He was only 20," one woman says, distractedly, of the boyfriend who died from a police chokehold, as if she were fully registering his youth for the first time.
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Henry deposits Andy, 7, on the Pirates' bench and nods distractedly as the coach explains in great detail his whiffle ball, string and clothesline technique for teaching toddlers to bat.
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Experts warn, though, that the lines between traditional news reporting — with clear editorial standards and accountability — and these new media players can be difficult to discern, especially when you're distractedly scrolling through your newsfeed.
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Once, after I had distractedly put on my gray pajama top that said "Namast'ay in Bed" instead of the gray sweater I'd laid out for work that morning, I was mortified while seeing other patients.
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But at times Nguyen pulls it off, as in the three perfect pages set in an Irish pub where a drunken Margo distractedly explains her love for Pac-Man while she is playing, against no one.
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An old man strides determinedly by with a fanciful cane, a group of women in headscarves pass a brick building, one woman wearing large glasses and pants that seem a bit too long, glances distractedly at the ground.
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It has been printed on T-shirts, signs and buttons, like the one worn on Friday by Mr. Garner's 2-year-old daughter, Legacy, as she distractedly took in Mr. Blanchard's performance near the foot of the stage.
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As she spoke, she grew restless, searching distractedly for a show curated by Amy Sillman with canvases propped along the walls She returned to her map, studying it intently, then pleaded with a security guard to lead the way.
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One of her great strengths is the ability to immerse the reader in an environment, but "The Midnight Cool" has features — reprinted newspaper columns, conveniently timed flashbacks and other devices — that often jostle the reader into distractedly noticing fiction's weights and pulleys.
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Such punchy directness makes her a heroine for our times, as well as for hers, and nowhere more withering than when, freshly hitched to Masham, in a marriage of convenience, she satisfies him with one hand—briskly and distractedly, while talking of more important things.
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"Oh," he said as the little arrows scrolled by pointing down, down, down, and when a lone tourist asked about the famous bronze statue on the steps of Federal Hall, Andino said distractedly, "Yeah, George Washington," and kept watching the arrows until he decided to close early.
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It will also inevitably mean less foot traffic to malls, fewer people visiting leisure destinations, and lots of companies having their internal efficiency undermined by unusually large numbers of workers taking sick leave or needing to work semi-distractedly while caring at home for children due to school closures.
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In the other painting, "Daddy's Girl, Age 11" (2017), which is perhaps a memory of the grieving daughter from "Daddy's Gone, Girl," the father of the title now reclines poolside, cross-legged and naked in a lounge chair, with his body obscured by his bikinied tween daughter sitting distractedly on the chair's edge.
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Aja: I want to preface everything I say about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the following story, which is that when I went to see it, there was a man sitting in front of me who was constantly, obsessively, very distractedly (and distractingly) checking his phone for the first 15 minutes of the film.
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One problem for me as a blogger is that I read voraciously but write very dilatorily and distractedly.
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Burgess has said of his largely solitary childhood "I was either distractedly persecuted or ignored. I was one despised. ... Ragged boys in gangs would pounce on the well-dressed like myself." Burgess attended St. Edmund's Elementary School before moving on to Bishop Bilsborrow Memorial Elementary School, both Catholic schools, in Moss Side.
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Charlie and Nikki send a walking toy dog rigged with lit fireworks down the hallway. The fireworks explode, allowing Shelley to escape to Charlie. Believing the creature dead, they run to Reception only to find Mark has barred its door with the crowbar. They plead with him; he stares distractedly, leaving them trapped.
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He refuses, and during the night he breaks his window trying distractedly to open it. The shattering glass cuts his wrist and he applies to Olalla's mother for help. At the sight of his wound, she leaps upon him and bites into his arm. Felipe arrives in time to wrestle his mother away from our hero and Olalla tends to his injuries.
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He makes an enigmatic, mumbled phone call, ending with the complaint, "It's been half an hour." He hangs up, and walks out into the hotel corridor (still shirtless) as if expecting to find someone there. He looks around, finding nothing, then returns to his hotel room. He goes into the bathroom, where he washes his hands and distractedly dabs at his appearance.
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Scene 16: The Last Visit to Venice Aschenbach boards a gondola for Venice and sings of its beauty. He realises and mocks his own resemblance to the Elderly Fop. Upon seeing the Polish family ahead of him, Aschenbach follows distractedly. Tadzio detaches himself from the family and waits for Aschenbach, who turns away when the boy looks directly at him.
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Divine places her in the car and drives distractedly around Baltimore experiencing bizarre situations, such as repeated visits by the Blessed Virgin Mary (Margie Skidmore)—during which Divine exclaims, "Oh Mary ... teach me to be Divine". Divine finally takes the unconscious Bombshell to Dr. Coathanger, who amputates her feet and replaces them with bird-like monster feet which she can tap together to transport herself around Baltimore.
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Scene 2 opens with Luisa singing a lullaby, "Huitzilipochtli" accompanying herself on the harpsichord. Dolores, embroidering nearby, listens distractedly. She parries questions from Luisa with her own questions about the subject of the lullaby. Luisa has very grave suspicions about Dolores' state of mind but is distracted by the governor's entrance, on his way to investigate the state of the King's treasury at Auditor General's Torralba's office.
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He distractedly slips on the wet gangplank, hits his head, and is pitched into the water. Before he drowns, he sees the woman from earlier flashbacks, clutching the infant. Stella is later seen hastening to the phone booth to confide her woes over the phone. The absent Stella Maris had years ago won a nationwide contest to be the voice of the speaking clock.
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Disney's Alice in Wonderland, an animated film, depicted the March Hare at the tea party as being deliriously confused. He repeatedly offers Alice a cup of tea, but distractedly pulls the cup out of her reach or takes it from her hands just as she is about to drink. He was voiced by Jerry Colonna, after whom his appearance and personality were modelled. He was animated by Ward Kimball.
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Another story says Olivares was enraged because the pope, instead of paying him full attention, was distractedly playing with a little lapdog, and Olivares angrily took the dog away from the pontiff and put it on the floor. After the death of pope Sixtus V, relations with his successor, Gregory XIV, improved dramatically. From 1591 to 1595, Olivares was appointed viceroy of Sicily. In November 1595, Philip II appointed Olivares viceroy of Naples.
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Back at the office, Groo agrees to let Cordelia give him a complete makeover, thinking that it will make her love him more. She explains that she already has strong feelings for him, and he then understands Cordelia is concerned about losing her visions. Jerry, the fiancé, is tailed by Gunn and Fred who videotape the man as he waits beside a large tree. The two start kissing and distractedly miss the moment when Jerry disappears.
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Hammock then asks Emmy to verify the legitimacy of her marriage; she does not turn him in, partially blaming her own naiveté, but nevertheless leaves him. Returning to the US, she drives distractedly, in anguish at Georges' betrayal. When a black lace veil Georges had bought her is blown into her face, she is seriously injured in a car accident. When Georges learns of this, he immediately crosses the border, jeopardizing his visa to go to her.
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Namrata Joshi of Outlook described its "solid writing, sharp dialogue and the spot-on performances" as the strengths. She praised its humour in the face of a serious investigation, which gave the film a "nice touch". Sarit Ray of Hindustan Times mentioned Talvar "shakes you up and forces you to think". He praised the "believable and flawed" character of Ashwini, who "drinks on the sly, out of bottles wrapped in paper bags, and distractedly plays Snakes on his phone while a parent sobs" instead of being a "punchline-spewing hero figure".
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During an ugly confrontation at Grandma Ji's birthday party, Cun Xi finally realizes his true feelings for Xin Yi and departs the celebration to look for her. Upon locating her, she pleads with him to leave her alone. As she tries to escape, she distractedly crosses the street into traffic and is hit by a car, leaving Cun Xi in shock. At the hospital, Cun Xi is advised by the doctor that an emergency abortion is required to save Xin Yi's life and that time is of the essence.
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In Act IV the scene shifts from court and town to the wilds where the shepherds keep their flocks (the same shift to the pastoral mode that Shakespeare employs in Act IV of The Winter's Tale). Violante has disguised herself as a boy, and has become a servant to a master shepherd. Julio is also in the neighborhood, wandering distractedly, fighting with shepherds and stealing their food. The Master shepherd is a rare character in traditional English drama, who can actually recognize a woman when she's disguised as a boy.
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The film was screened at film festivals in cities such as New York, Milan, Libreville (Gabon), Tübingen (Germany), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Leuven (Belgium). A reviewer in Vanity Fair said the film has an unpolished feel but "offers as much insight into Congolese political culture as it does into Congolese soccer". Another reviewer called it a "spectacularly ambitious student film". Yet another said "The film’s raison d’etre is told unevenly and distractedly ... But still there are gems to be found in here, for footballers and Congo fans alike".
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According to the official website for Glamis Castle, in 1034, King Malcolm II was mortally wounded in a nearby battle and taken to a Royal Hunting Lodge, which sat at the site of the present castle, where he died. The late Sir David Bowes-Lyon, while taking a late stroll on the lawn after dinner, reportedly saw a girl gripping the bars of a castle window and staring distractedly into the night. He was about to speak to her when she abruptly disappeared, as if someone had torn her away from the window.
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Wesley immediately slips and falls, then starts to sweep the beans up with his bare hands, apologizing distractedly for making a mess. In what appears to be a natural segue for him, Wesley also apologizes, as he carefully regains his feet, for being taken hostage by Tae's men. Angel tries to reassure his friend and compliments him on a job well done, which prompts Wesley, in turn, to express his sincere regard for Angel. Cordelia is just teasing Wesley for turning groveling into an art, when Jhiera walks in.
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As he sits waiting to die, he is suddenly inspired to finish his Moulin Rouge poster and, brush in hand, distractedly turns the vents off again. The next day, Henri brings the poster to the dance hall and, though the style is unusual, Maurice accepts it. Henri works for days at the lithographers, blending his own inks to perfect the vivid colors. When he finishes the poster, which shows a woman dancing with her legs exposed, it becomes an instant sensation and the Moulin Rouge opens to high society.
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He then brings his car round near the back gate, bundles up the body, and drags it in broad daylight but in a quiet neighbourhood to the car, where he stuffs it in the boot. En route he is rear-ended by a van after braking distractedly. Desvallée nearly panics and hurries the formalities with the other driver as a crowd assembles and a policeman remarks that his boot is now jammed. He dumps the body into a murky pond where it takes an agonisingly long time to sink.
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Chang-sik (Im Chang-jung) lives strictly by the freeloader's handbook, doing the rounds of free samples in department store food sections and sponging off of his older brother. Mi-young (Kim Sun-a) nurtures grandiose dreams of becoming a TV actress but has failed every audition because she just can't act. Because the two are unemployed, live in the same neighborhood, and have similar schedules, they are bound to run into each other, and they do. One day, Chang-sik and Mi-young are walking around distractedly when they end up in a head-on collision.
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A messenger of the bishop's is also present; he is tortured with fire to make him reveal the location of the city's gold, which he refuses to do. After being repeatedly burned, he has liquid metal from a melted crucifix poured into his mouth and is dragged away tied to a horse. In the aftermath only Andrei and Durochka are left alive in the church. Andrei imagines a conversation with the dead Theophanes the Greek, lamenting the loss of his work and the cruelty of mankind, while Durochka distractedly plaits the hair of a dead woman.
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Constance, feeling that Sir Philip has repudiated her, falls into a melancholy, in which she talks distractedly; her uncle characterises her state as "direct lunacy and idiotism." Trainwell, however, offers her compassionate care, and starts conspiring with Triedwell to manipulate events toward a positive outcome. The later scenes of the play are occupied with complex plotting, disguises, and busy comings and goings among humorous servants and justices and constables. Triedwell beats Anvil, forcing him in effect to switch sides from Fitchow's faction to Luckless's; he even makes Anvil carry a rope's end around with him, so it will be handy whenever Triedwell wants to beat him again.
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In 1979, 16-year-old Amy (whose father Jason Vining has just died) goes looking for Laura and causes strain on Laura's recent marriage to Scott Baldwin. Amy goes to live with Laura's parents, Lesley and Rick. It is clear from the beginning that Amy has secret resentments against Laura who left for a seemingly better life and doesn't seem to appreciate it. Later that year, Amy is indirectly responsible for Laura's winding up at the Campus Disco the night she is raped by her future second husband, Luke Spencer, when Amy distractedly forgets to tell Laura that Scott will not be picking her up.
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Statue of Pedro de Meneses, in Ceuta. (while John I of Portugal was canvassing for governors, the young Pedro was nearby, distractedly playing choca (a kind of Medieval hockey) with a stick of zambujeiro or Aleo (wild olive tree). Hearing all the high nobles making excuses to avoid the job, the young Pedro de Menezes stepped forward and approached the king with his gaming stick (aleo) in hand and told him that, with only that stick, he could defend Ceuta from all the power of Morocco."Eu só com este páu, sou capaz de defender Ceuta, de todo o poder dos mouros", as reported in Portugal antigo e moderno, 1878, p.495.
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A similar painting by Frans van Mieris the Elder, The Oyster Meal, 1661, Mauritshuis She is distractedly spilling drops from her glass of wine held precariously between her right finger and thumb: the drops are falling towards a spaniel waiting to drink; a bird cage hangs empty, the bird has flown; and a distressed chair in the foreground has a knob missing on one side, with some fraying upholstery coming unstitched. There is a pewter jug on the table. The details allow Ochtervelt to show his mastery of the effects of light falling on pewter, glass, fur and textiles. The subject of an oyster meal was painted by other Dutch artists, including Jan Steen, Frans van Mieris the Elder, and Gabriel Metsu.
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Old Mother Riley is sacked from her job as a step cleaner at the office where her daughter Kitty works. She goes home to make steak and kidney pudding for their lodger, Joe, who is vaguely engaged to Kitty, but distractedly pours castor oil into the gravy, with amusing results. Jo is not sure he wants to be tied down to Kitty (or her impossible mother) and arranges for his travel agency employers to post him to Paris for six months, much to Kitty's discomfiture. While changing a light bulb, Old Mother Riley has a fall from a stepladder, resulting in her hospitalisation: keen to claim the maximum amount on her insurance she alters her medical records for the worse, only to be carried off for an emergency operation when the doctors see how much appears to be "wrong" with her.
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Garrett punish them after Tootie gets drunk on wine that Blair, Jo and Natalie were responsible for instead of going to the headmaster, which would have resulted in all of them being expelled. In The Four Musketeers, it was her idea to move back into the room and work in the kitchen to pay off the debt incurred when she and the other girls get into a paint fight while painting the room.). She also said this on occasion to be sarcastic, particularly with Jo. For example, she said her catchphrase once while Jo was distractedly mopping the cafeteria floor and followed it up with 'if you move your feet around while mopping, we just might be done by lunchtime'. Blair's parents (played by Nicolas Coster and Marj Dusay) were divorced on June 14, 1973 and although she didn't usually show it, Blair wished that she had a nuclear family like all of her friends.
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McMichael, p. 47 Snyder, she said, seemingly preoccupied by another matter and lost in thought, distractedly replied, "Paula, you need to stop hanging around with those guys. That's what you've got to expect on the third deck with a bunch of drunk aviators" and made no further comment.McMichael, p. 47 Duvall "Mac" WilliamsOn September 19, Captain Robert Parkinson, Snyder's chief of staff, and Coughlin met with Snyder in his office at Patuxent and Coughlin told him in detail about the assault. Snyder told Coughlin that he would call and inform Ludwig, Dunleavy, and his boss, Vice Admiral William Bowes, about the situation and that he and Coughlin would write detailed letters which he would deliver to Dunleavy. When Coughlin learned on September 30 that the letters had not yet been delivered, she gave a copy of her letter to a staff member for the Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower Vice Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda.
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In a rambling apartment, a middle-aged couple, Yvonne and Georges, live with their 22-year-old son Michel and Yvonne's spinster sister Léonie ("tante Léo"), who has also been in love with Georges. Yvonne is a reclusive semi-invalid, dependent on her insulin treatment, and intensely possessive of her son (who returns her immoderate affection and calls her "Sophie"); Georges distractedly pursues his eccentric inventions; it is left to Léo to preserve such order as she can in their life and their apartment, which she describes as a "gypsy caravan" ("la roulotte"). When Michel announces that he is in love with a girl, Madeleine, whom he wishes to introduce to them, his parents are immediately hostile and seek to forbid the relationship, reducing Michel to despair. Georges realises that Madeleine is the same woman who has been his own mistress in recent months, and he confesses all to Léo, who devises a plan to extricate father and son by forcing Madeleine into silent surrender of them both.
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In a rambling apartment a middle-aged couple, Yvonne and Georges, live with their 22-year-old son Michel and Yvonne's spinster sister Léonie ("tante Léo"), who has also been in love with Georges. Yvonne is a reclusive semi-invalid, dependent on her insulin treatment, and intensely possessive of her son (who returns her immoderate affection and calls her "Sophie"); Georges distractedly pursues his eccentric inventions; it is left to Léo to preserve such order as she can in their life and their apartment, which she describes as a "gypsy caravan" ("la roulotte"). When Michel announces that he is in love with a girl, Madeleine, whom he wishes to introduce to them, his parents are immediately hostile and seek to forbid the relationship, reducing Michel to despair. Georges realises that Madeleine is the same woman who has been his own mistress in recent months, and he confesses all to Léo, who devises a plan to extricate father and son by forcing Madeleine into silent surrender of them both.
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