Diversion
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
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Diversion Quotations
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
George W. Bush
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Luciano Pavarotti
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
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
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
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
Diversion Translations
diversion in Afrikaans is ontspanning
diversion in Danish is rekreation
diversion in Dutch is afleidingsmanoeuvre
diversion in German is Umleitung
diversion in Italian is diversione, deviazione
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