His argument was a divagation from our topic. From LearnThat.org.
I had never heard of 'divagation' until a couple of days ago, when I came across it in Alan Bennett's 'The Uncommon Reader' (part of the Trappist's holiday reading material). From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Earlier in this story Peter Wilkinson stepped briefly out of the narrative stream to note an uncanny coincidence converging on the word "divagation," an infrequently used but perfectly legitimate element of the English language. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
If he did not move, Wonstead was capable of reporting him to the captain for strange behavior, and they were all too alert to a divagation which might mean trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
To this end we must go back to the state we affirmed of Eternity, unwavering Life, undivided totality, limitless, knowing no divagation, at rest in unity and intent upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The detail cannot be considered as something separate from the entire body of speculation: so treated it would have no technical or scientific value; it would be childish divagation. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
I was told that at that period he was nearly every day a prey to attacks of mental depression characterised not exactly by divagation but by confessing at the top of his voice — in front of third parties whose presence and censoriousness he had forgotten — opinions he usually hid, such as his. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
So this divagation is a way to find an entrance, indeed an estuary of sorts, into the story of an extra-ordinary artist, to the course of whose life I had but intermittent access before his death, though the sunken parts of which will, I am sure, be reclaimed by others who knew him and in whom too was borne an equal fascination. From Wordnik.com. [The Stream and The Torrent (1st prologue)] Reference
And even with the divagation it was mainly and really this. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
I would turn up at breakfast any morning and propound some plan for a new divagation. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Let us be set down at Queens Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there. From Wordnik.com. [VII. Crawley of Queens Crawley] Reference
I don't see where Grecian urns come into all this, but let's not open up another divagation or diegesis. john doyle on 16 August, 2008 - 15: 23. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
The best way to explain that sense is an indirect one, and so I trust my readers will have patience with a divagation in the direction of Philadelphia. From Wordnik.com. [The Archdruid Report] Reference
But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment, agreeing with her again without reference to his private convictions. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool for Love] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
But for that unlucky divagation in the Wilderness, his life would have been the life of a man of letters only as far as choice went, with the duties of no dishonourable profession superadded. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
It was he who invented the modern dramatic method of seizing a situation at the point at which it can last be seized, and from there pushing it forward with imperturbable logic and not one divagation. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
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Now the mere recollection of her jarred his joy in the evening, for he had long since begun to understand that his love of her had been a kind of accident, even as her death a strange unaccountable divagation of his true nature. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
In celestial science especially, facts that appear subversive are often the most illuminative, and the prospect of its advance widens and brightens with each divagation enforced or permitted from the strait paths of rigid theory. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
His marriage had been a failure, but he had preserved toward his wife the exact fidelity of act that is sometimes supposed to excuse any divagation of feeling; so that, for years, the tie between them had consisted mainly in his abstaining from making love to other women. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
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Morgan Ruyler IV had overlooked his father-in-law's divagation from the orthodox standards of his own family because he had been a spectacular financial success; bringing home ropes of enormous pearls from India in addition to the fantastic sums paid him by enraptured native princes. From Wordnik.com. [The Avalanche] Reference
It was a reverie rather than a song, a kind of careless divagation of the voice, with which the mind had little to do, but which kept time with the swaying of the ship, the faint sound of the dead water, and resembled a vague improvisation, restrained, nevertheless, by sweet and monotonous forms. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Imaginative creation has no mere vague sensory support; that is to say, it is not the unbridled divagation of the fancy among images of light, color, sounds and impressions; but it is a construction firmly allied to reality; and the more it holds fast to the forms of the external created world, the loftier will the value of its internal creations be. From Wordnik.com. [Spontaneous Activity in Education] Reference
"divagation." peter wilkinson on 13 August, 2008 - 13: 29. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Queen’s Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
"… cheek by jowl with his tendentious, unjustified divagation …" peter wilkinson on 18 August, 2008 - 11: 04. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
The rock ledges, among which we were clambering, were in many places fearful spots enough ” places where a stumble or a divagation of the foot but six or eight inches from the narrow path would have precipitated the blunderer to assured and inevitable destruction. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
Soul, then, in the same way, is intent upon a task of its own; alike in its direct course and in its divagation it is the cause of all by its possession of the Thought of the First Principle: thus a Law of Justice goes with all that exists in the Universe which, otherwise, would be dissolved, and is perdurable because the entire fabric is guided as much by the orderliness as by the power of the controlling force. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
"Thanks to the divagation which I can hold myself personally responsible for, we are now safely back on this side of the river. From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
Excursus (or divagation). From Wordnik.com. [open source theology - Comments] Reference
'' He had unbelievable commitment and divagation. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It was about designer every week, divagation from. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
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