He had been sidetracking himself, misunderstanding the thrust of the sales pitch.

"It wasn't me you were trying to bail out by sidetracking Elias-it was Prudence!"

My whole metabolism tingled in unexplainable warning, not to mention exasperation, at this sidetracking.

"No sidetracking.

She is a graduate of Lake Worth High School, Class of 1965, and studied psychology before sidetracking into acting.

After much biographical sidetracking, Professor Scobie finally arrives at the right station in a chapter called "Douglas Versus Nixon."

But Mr. Panetta would not say what further changes he envisioned after the sidetracking of his predecessor, Thomas F. McLarty 3d.

Its purpose is to mechanically stabilize the BHA in the borehole in order to avoid unintentional sidetracking, vibrations, and ensure the quality of the hole being drilled.

But the intensely covered, four-day sidetracking of Mr. Kerry's public campaign is a further reminder that the nation needs to know the state of the major candidates' health in up-to-the-minute detail.

"Besides," he said, "there is something I want to talk to you about that I've been putting off because I don't know how to approach it and this food would be an excuse for further sidetracking."

But Willy has a true genius for sidetracking, and six frames of snooker and a very ill-starred (for me) session of three card brag had to be endured before I was allowed to listen to the music now immortalised within this sleeve.

But Mr. McLarty has never pretended to the role of a major legislative strategist, and even among his friends and subordinates in the White House the shuffle was regarded as a sidetracking of the unfailingly courteous former businessmen who had been increasingly described as an ineffectual chief of staff.

His career was then sidetracked by two years in the Army.

As such, his historical research kept being sidetracked into the present.

He was worried about more questions, and saw a way to sidetrack them.

"And I'd like her to do so if the rest of you will stop sidetracking the conversation."

The entire task force was at risk of being sidetracked.

Through my connections, I was able to sidetrack one of them.

Americans should not let themselves be sidetracked by a media spectacle.

She led in Boston through 25 miles but was sidetracked by pain.

But he was by now too aroused to be sidetracked.

Something began to click in my head then, but his next words sidetracked it.

"We feel that people have been sidetracked by too many things.

We're not going to allow this incident to get us sidetracked.

As he continues trying to find out what happened, Guy's personal and professional life get suddenly sidetracked.

Perhaps it was done specifically to sidetrack them, the attack.

His career was sidetracked in 1950 for five years because he considered himself a Communist.

I've gotten sidetracked a little bit, but I'll get back.

The idea is to keep them from becoming permanently sidetracked.

He hovered for a moment, but his mind was too full to be sidetracked.

Still, the Project will not be sidetracked into what some of you call the fundamentals.

Do not sidetrack into dwelling on what is wrong with it.

He found cunning ways to sidetrack her every time she brought up the issue.

"It's hard for me to see how somebody's going to sidetrack it."

That history shows how easily peace can be sidetracked by violence.

"It looks as though I'm always being sidetracked on this job.

We'll have a place all set near here, where you can sidetrack him."

I've had a lot of sidetracks in my career.

The cars are stored on sidetracks off to the side of this station when not being used.

Yet these sidetracks stretch on for pages and then chapters.

Your fascination with this culture is understandable, but right now I want no sidetracks.

This subject is one of the many interesting sidetracks which, unfortunately, space would not permit in the piece.

I have too much material; I keep going off on sidetracks of beauty and fascination.

Sidetracks are used by railroads to order and organize the flow of rail traffic.

In its short sequences of dialogue, there's no time for illuminating sidetracks off the main tragic arc.

As we move forward, we will discover many "sidetracks," but for now, let's concentrate on getting the train from the station to the destination.

It spun out so many sidetracks, you never got where you were going unless you used discipline.

"These railroad sidetracks," he said, indicating the hashmarks labeled 10.

A brakeman had dropped off to switch the rear cars onto one of the rusted sidetracks.

There are no sidetracks, no confusions of superfluous detail.

The evening took some unexpected sidetracks.

The plot about fixing your computer includes some sidetracks, but it essentially involves playing seven games over and over again.

Held in the the Sidetrack, a club that has since closed, these gatherings created a base for young musicians to become accomplished blues performers.

There are several sidetracks from the central story, involving an Egyptian psychiatrist, a Mexican gardener, a private eye and a dog.

No sidetracks for her.

It was produced by Sidetrack Films.

From here, we travel light and last, no sidetracks, no exploration, no sight-seeing, just speed.

In "Sidetracks" he goes farther still, assigning the dominant role in any biographical partnership to the energetic dead.

As a businessman, Rank knew a good deal when he saw one and struck many, but he often dissipated the rewards in sentimental sidetracks.

"No Earthly analogue-here, evolution's taken some sidetracks.

To the west, across River Street, is Sidetrack Bar & Grill.

The "03" is the "Directional Sidetrack Code" for wells that have been sidetracked.