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
Annunziata's eyes, during this divagation, had wandered to the window, the tall window with its view of the terraced garden, where the mimosa bloomed and the blackcaps carolled.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
They are not very easy to select from, for their author's singular tendency to divagation affects them.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
