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 his finest passages, as in his most trivial, he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

I confess that my own enjoyment of Richter, which has nevertheless been considerable, has always been lessened by the presence in him, to a still greater degree, of this same habit of quasi-serious divagation.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George