diversion

i. ilgisini başka tarafa çekme, dikkatini dağıtma, saptırma; şaşırtma; yanıltma; oyalama, eğlence

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
James Longstreet

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
George Andrew Olah

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
Bo Gritz

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.
Mike Thompson

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.
David Soul

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Luciano Pavarotti

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.
Charles Foster Bass

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
Charles Foster Bass

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
Charles Foster Bass

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
Robert Shea

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