| Lizzie is relentlessly charming throughout, even as she somehow misses Gordo's obvious misery at her distractedness. |
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| If distractedness breeds emotional turmoil, the ability to sustain our gaze, to keep looking, can bring greater clarity and insight. |
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| The error might have resulted from a second's distractedness rather than illiteracy. |
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| She was forced to say something of this to Mr. Lesley when he asked her about her distractedness, but he could say nothing to reassure her. |
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| If I were working in an office today, I'd be full of good intentions and dozy distractedness. |
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| His distractedness seems more engaged, his musing absence more present, than even the worldliest in his worldly entourage. |
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| Hence there is growing concern that human consciousness is being extended in too many directions at once, leading to chronic distractedness. |
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| We prefer to think of a city where long lines and simmering vats of rudeness, inefficiency, crankiness, and distractedness have suddenly been zapped away. |
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| Its characters' distractedness was the distractedness of obsession. |
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| Choreography counters this agitation and distractedness either with radical reduction or with extreme focusing, with interventionist settings or with alienation from stratagems of spectacle. |
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