divagation

Thereafter, we work our way forward, with many a stimulating divagation.

The scream of the Dorian's descending shuttle put an end to this divagation.

Rather than pursue a Joycean stream of consciousness, he captured the divagation of thought in essays.

There was no demur from any one, though the following of the swath would mean a diagonal divagation from our set course.

He chose divagation.

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.

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

An example here is "The Bridge," with its divagation addressed to Mr. Rizzuto's onetime partner Bill White: Two balls and a strike.

Calisher offers just enough light for us to see through her words, darkly: "It is a folklore style really, in which divagation, the power of the added subjective clause, if never quite innocent, has its place."

Ergo (in the end, Roberto was confident, rediscovering the reason why he had initiated this divagation) the stage shows us the sun revolving, but the nature of the machine is quite different, nor can we be aware of it at the outset.

The boundary ran roughly due north, except for a divagation eastwards to include the parish of Slindon, which was a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury and so was attached to the archbishop's hundred of Pagham.

And when, after some delay and divagation in the deep jungle, he came to the house of Iffibos on a high, precarious crag, he found that the bird was merely one of the bright-plumaged vultures peculiar to the region, which Iffibos had tamed for his own amusement.

Egoistic divagation from this solidarity of principle can result only in sterile spinning of impractical hypotheses without social organic utility, or repetition of the superstitious-religious speculations of the irresponsible hired scientists of the Profit States of Urras. . . .* Oh, the profiteer!

But haply thou shalt summon me again, albeit in the same hour of the same autumn; and in that summoning the laws of time shall be broken, and a rift shall be made in space; and through the rift, though with some delay and divagation, I will yet win to thee."