diverting

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

It had been a disaster, diverting farmers from the land, draining their grain supplies and ultimately starving millions.

Four SUVs blocked the entrance to the lot, and a patrol car started diverting traffic.

American officials are fully aware of the risk of Saleh diverting U.S. military aid.

How much more diverting to focus on the villainy of a potty-mouthed Illinois pol.

It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.

The convention as a spectacle was immensely diverting, but she had her misgivings about it as a transaction in history.

This Way of travelling is very commodious and diverting, and so swift, that an Arrow from a Cross-bow does not fly faster.

But although he never stirred out of the cradle, Gilly of the Goatskin had ways of diverting himself.

Humour she really possessed; and when she chose it, she could be diverting to those who like buffoonery in women.