Mr. Martini, who is more reserved, says that Mr. Pascrell's folksiness is a convenient distraction from his political record.

A bomber can be small and fast, and they gain an extra edge over scanning opponents since the bombs also serve as convenient distractions.

Because sticking their ignorant and prejudiced noses into this issue is a convenient distraction from illiterate British children.

Well, it was a very convenient distraction for you, wasn't it Mr Lamb?

She had a child, therefore a husband, and what she represented to me was no more than a convenient distraction from my fears for my mother.

Economists complain that political issues are a convenient distraction for leaders who find economic matters too tough to confront.

Of course, the heady fragrance of the flowering trees and her own childish masquerade had been convenient distractions.

Blaming the problem on the populations of poor countries is a convenient distraction from addressing an easier target: Reduce the amount of resources that rich nations consume.

She lambasted defense theories that crucial evidence was either contaminated or planted, calling those theories convenient distractions from absolutely overwhelming evidence.

He suggested that politicians in Washington were using Saddam Hussein as a convenient distraction.