divagation

1 The fact was demonstrated by the production of figures and notes on the subject, when he would quite lose himself in bureaucratic divagations.

2 The expansion of criticism in the same thirty years was not a whit less marked than the vast divagation of the novel.

3 Sinclair is often described as "digressive", but the term doesn't work, for it suggests a central path from which his divagations occur.

4 That ended the Russian divagation, and it had the effect of making the table-talk impersonal.

5 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.

6 Godard sees that the life of a couple isn’t just literary allusions and philosophical divagations, and he bears witness to male brutality.

7 Think only of to seek a direction of divagation, thus I can go far away.

只想找个流浪的方向，这样我就可以远走高飞了。

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

9 “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.”

10 Hemingway’s divagations here are continued throughout the book.

11 He furnished the substance, which was embroidered by the dark grace of the personality of Mr. Lewis Hind, whose new volume of divagations is, by the way, just out.

12 Parker's railroad eye and engineer's discernment bitterly condemned the divagations of the wight who wandered first along that trail and imposed his lazy dodgings on all who might come after him.

13 When I first saw her in Richard Strauss's music drama I was still under the spell of Olive Fremstad's impersonation, and was astonished, and perhaps a little indignant at Miss Garden's divagations.

14 Yes, all these, he admits perhaps proudly, are divagations, and the secret, eternal, and only beauty is not yet found.

15 His own brains moved slowly; frequently he was unable to follow the maid's divagations and speculations.

16 I was just going to my studio, but I will accompany you in your divagations.'

17 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.

18 Under pretence of managing an income for the singers, they suppress half the stanzas of canticles and hymns, and substitute, to vary the pleasure, the tiresome divagations of an organ.

19 Then a reprehensible quantity of tobacco smoked in the book-room, and the tale of the season's angling told from the beginning with many embellishments and divagations.

20 He talked persistently of Mr. Thomas Atkins, of his artful divagations in peace and his whole-souled valour in war.

1 离题

cold tangential digressive excursive irrelevantly discursively digressively aside sidetrack digression discursion impertinency wander stray digress divagate off the point away from the point off the mark off the track diverge from

2 入歧途

divagate