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
Where he stands alone is in a fantastic fertility of divagation and comment which is as much his own as the clear, neat directness of Macaulay is his.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
I would turn up at breakfast any morning and propound some plan for a new divagation.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
