I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a...
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It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
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There's also a gentler sense here, a human figure diverting himself with small pleasures like a smooth pebble on a beach. The range shows diverting can mean distraction, discipline, or simple play.
