Sentences with phrase «sidetracked trying»

Even some definitions as generous as «a character wants two things but can't have them both,» «a yearning encounters an obstacle» or «stranger comes to town, uh-oh» can raise points of contention, and it would be easy to get sidetracked trying to defend a set of criteria and conventions.

I get sidetracked trying to tidy up my pile of mess in the kitchen because my partial OCD won't let me focus until my surrounding is well organized.

Not exact matches

In Colorado Springs, Trump got sidetracked by a couple of disputes from last year as he tried to rebut a Clinton campaign ad.

«I was trying to get [my business] Effective Networking off the ground, I had debts from a business that didn't make it, and too much was in my own name,» explains Darling, who also got sidetracked by other projects that weren't generating income.

They are not trick questions trying to sidetrack the debate.

That is nOT on the mind of over 2 million mothers aborting the baby!!!! YOURE trying to sidetrack the issue!

He had a business trip that sidetracked him and he's trying to get back on track after losing 11.8 pounds the first week of the challenge!

That, and the fact that I have on occasion bought fresh veggies to try new recipes only to be sidetracked and said veggies being forgotten in the crisper: (Once again, as a fairly new vegetarian, I appreciate yours and all these great vegetarian / vegan blogs.

I tend to get sidetracked with things, but now that you've reminded me, I'll try to get to it soon!

At a time when that government was trying to enact a harshly anti-gay law ---- sidetracked at least for the moment by a court ruling ---- that includes jail time even for those who fail to report knowledge of homosexual conduct, Cabrera decried the rise of «cultural shifters going after our young.»

I know how easy it is to get sidetracked — I wasted several months of my PhD trying to prove a point.

I keep trying to get over here to this post and comment on how much I LOVE these snowflakes, but kept getting sidetracked!

Even worse was Jillian Bell (Office Christmas Party) as Holly, a guidance counselor who was trying to help Campbell prepare for his fight but kept getting sidetracked by her attraction to teenaged students or conversations about her drug problem.

Some of this is due to the flat, linear storytelling and some of it is due to the writers» decision to try to include a sidetrack into a narrative on the beginning of punk rock by including a storyline on John Holmstron, credited with naming the movement and founding the magazine Punk, and his friend Leggs.

I certainly didn't think I would be so encapsulated by the settlement building aspect of the game as it's not something I'm usually into but I found myself getting sidetracked from the main quest for hours trying to recruit citizens and improve my kingdom.

It takes place in the early 1990s, following a group of grassroots activists in Paris trying to combat public and bureaucratic indifference with regard to the AIDS epidemic, for which potential pharmaceutical remedies are being sidetracked by sociopolitical obstacles.

You've shown that the current print publishing is inefficient which was a point I tried to and kept getting sidetracked.

Harvey tried to sidetrack you then, too, but you ignored him.

When I sit down to play a Nintendo game I'm never sidetracked by trying to do something ridiculous in order to get a silly little notification telling me that I've done something ridiculous.

Instead you try to sidetrack the issue with irrelevant questions and childish behaviour.

I'll try to bring the scripts up to date — the analysis was IMO pretty interesting and I was hoping at the time to do something with it, but got sidetracked by Team controversy over relatively simple concepts.

What is Juan Martinez trying to show the jury before he is sidetracked?

This professional pharmacy manager cover letter sample stays relevant to the job trying to be acquired, and you never want to get sidetracked with details a hiring manager is not going to remember.