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Example sentences for: diverting

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Livingston's resignation has also backfired by diverting public attention from perjury back to sex.
The plays share a certain puzzlelike quality; they are full of easy paradoxes and diverting logical conundrums.
TDI's main challenge will be to show donors that an open-source project can keep members from diverting donated information back into the commercially lucrative diseases that affect patients in the West.
The movie is diverting enough--it's good fun--but much of the genius is gone with the wind.
Critics are amused but not impressed: It's an "energetic and diverting sports soap opera" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Al Pacino plays an aging coach whose balance is upset when his two top quarterbacks get injured and he's forced to put in the untried Jamie Foxx--in a "standout performance" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). From here the film "develops into a kind of mega- Rocky " (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) complete with crucial last-minute plays.