During this unlikely confluence of Willie's hick sincerity and Montclair chic, the crowd was oddly distracted, maybe still preoccupied by Bush whupping Kerry last November.

Of more concern to Sandy, Kim appeared oddly distracted at times.

For quite a while he seemed curiously reluctant to talk about the dolphins, looking oddly distracted and saying, "I forget ..." whenever they were mentioned, and had shown them quite proudly round the eccentricities of his house.

But Anigel seemed oddly distracted.

Sometimes he would get seized with oddly distracted moods and stare into the sky as if hypnotized until someone asked him what he was doing.

For a moment Rhodry looked oddly distracted; then he smiled.

He seems oddly distracted.

While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.

Ruth got some from what they said; some from the oddly distracted, oddly frightened way they looked; most from their minds.

He glanced at Stacy, who had not uttered a word and seemed oddly distracted, then at the bend.