He shunned the details of government, for they interfered with his diversions.

His sprawling website offers plenty of diversions, and it spans the history of the Internet itself.

Road closures and bus diversions are in place and motorists have been advised to avoid the area.

, Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Computing Science Martin Gardner, Squaring the square, in The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.

For culinary diversions, be sure to order the Vienna classic Wiener Schnitzel in one of the many traditional Viennese restaurants and follow up with an Apfelstrudel (apple strudel).

Commentators were also amused that one of the only diversions of the day was expressed with regard to... the hour of prayer, some Committee members feeling that the Constituent Assembly clock was wrong.

He saw that the Slav question had become one of those fashionable diversions which, ever succeeding one another, serve to occupy Society he saw that too many people took up the question from interested motives.

And, because sex scandals are always interesting to read about certainly compared to yet another undeclared war, or a bailout that created jobs costing an estimated 850,000 each they will always be useful diversions. Citizens attention can be channeled away from, say, major corporate theft and government malfeasance toward narratives involving two hapless individuals (and their wives and children, who are usually suffering quite enough without the media s heavy breathing).