divagation

As a result, instead of locking down its subjects, as stereotypes are wont to do, the film uses its multiversal divagations to imagine alternative lives and versions of them.

“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.”

Instead of its wayward divagations around the dial it swung smoothly from one picture to another.

There aren’t many twists or turns or conceptual divagations from the political message to the final form of the work.

“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.”