divagation
Example Sentences
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“Certainly this production does nothing for the art of the ballet, and is a serious divagation from the true course of our most forward-looking company.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2015
There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I can see that if we allow the slightest divagation on the subject of your charms, we shall never have time to hear the tale of your escape.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
In celestial science especially, facts that appear subversive are often the most illuminative, and the prospect of its advance widens and brightens with each divagation enforced or permitted from the strait paths of rigid theory.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
But the whole—which, after the wont of the time, consists of several pieces jointed on to each other and all flooded with notes—suffers from the twin vices of negation and divagation.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
