By then, though, I'd been distracted for most of the first act, and felt more empathy than I would have preferred for Bruce Banner's problems with anger management.

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This noise consisted mainly of the high-pitched whirr of the CPU fan, but it was barely noticeable -- to the point where if you got distracted, you'd have to re-focus your concentration just to make out the sound.

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If we weren't so distracted about how we'd ruined everything, we might see that there are some small ways that we could have improved.

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Distracted by what I'd seen, my mind wandered, and I only realized after some time that we'd gone rather farther into the suburbs than I had anticipated.

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Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut -- who introduced the Senate measure -- said lawmakers shouldn't get distracted by differences in the bills.

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