This is a bold choice, but ultimately one which makes his performance distractingly opaque.

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The Vikings' lease at the Metrodome, a distractingly loud multipurpose stadium where the team has played since 1982, expired this year.

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Six years ago, the display quality of the Nintendo DS was clearly below the quality of best smartphones, but not distractingly so.

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It lingers on the screen distractingly for the rest of the presentation.

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Cue the villain who looks distractingly like Michael Jackson.

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Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.

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Gyllenhaal, often a distractingly tic-ridden actress who relies heavily on her sex-kitten sultriness, here shows unexpected backbone as a single mother coming to terms with her own bad habits as she takes yet another chance on a much-married man who's potentially crippled by his.

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