divagation

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.

open source theology - Comments 2009

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).

open source theology - Comments 2009

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.

The Stream and The Torrent (1st prologue) Brian Howell 2009

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.

The Stream and The Torrent (1st prologue) 2009

Among Ibsen's writings Terje Vigen is unique as a piece of pure sentimentality carried right rough without one divagation into irony or pungency.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Among Ibsen's writings Terje Vigen is unique as a piece of pure sentimentality carried right rough without one divagation into irony or pungency.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

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

Time Regained 2003

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.

Star Born Andre Norton 1958

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.

Star Born Norton, Andre 1957

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.

Star Born Norton, Andre 1957