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
That ended the Russian divagation, and it had the effect of making the table-talk impersonal.
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
But they sometimes display that humour which he undoubtedly possessed, though his best-known published writings seldom admit of it: and the divagation itself has its advantages.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
