A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
A message that departs from the main subject.
1 Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation , and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there.
2 After these mystic divagations , the writer had experienced a period of calm.
3 They watch keenly and with reprobation in Mr. Hearst's press our slightest divagations .
4 The Rajah had not been idle during the interval of dinner-givings and social divagations .
5 The precious Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, hob-a-nobbed with every Muse in her amazing divagations .
6 Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings.
7 And with this, according to the divagations of their temperaments and characters, the others strenuously concurred.
8 Serious scholars mentioned below should be applauded for their good work, never blamed for my tawdry divagations .
9 His divagations took place in the intervals.]
10 You must forgive me for being led away into divagations which seem to be irrelevant to the dramatic sequence.
11 In one of those brilliant divagations with which Mr. H. G. Wells is wont to enrich his novels he says:
12 Gyges listened with astonishment to this discourse of Candaules, and sought to penetrate the hidden sense of these lyric divagations .
13 Even if we turn out of our path sometimes, we don't like others to vacillate... conversions, divagations , are not sympathetic.
14 The Icelander must tell his story in haste; the deeds of men are his care, not their divagations nor their psychologizings.
15 There was really the touch of grace in my poor friend's divagations - the disheartened dandy had so positively turned rhapsodist and seer.
16 All That Follows convincingly charts the divagations of Lennie's mental life: often he is listening to jazz, or remembering past performances.
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