| 单词 | divagation |
| 例句 | “I can see that if we allow the slightest divagation on the subject of your charms, we shall never have time to hear the tale of your escape.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Instead of its wayward divagations around the dial it swung smoothly from one picture to another. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She doesn't elucidate, though we might reasonably deduce that he provides her with some theoretical justification for what Tietjens calls "her high-handed divagations from fidelity". Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z “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.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Several of his first works to arrive in the United States came here attributed to other painters, and Piero’s stylistic divagations have made attribution and dating difficult. Piero di Cosimo, a misunderstood master, at the National Gallery of Art 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Godard sees that the life of a couple isn’t just literary allusions and philosophical divagations, and he bears witness to male brutality. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z There aren’t many twists or turns or conceptual divagations from the political message to the final form of the work. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Hemingway’s divagations here are continued throughout the book. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z As a result, instead of locking down its subjects, as stereotypes are wont to do, the film uses its multiversal divagations to imagine alternative lives and versions of them. Perspective | ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a deeply Asian American film 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z But even that divagation is less one of independence than of calculation and convenience, given how unpopular mainstream Republicanism has become to many Republicans. George Will's History of Being Boring Perhaps such divagations of the public mind are a necessary diversion. The Real Challenges for a New Defense Secretary 2013-01-02T18:05:22Z One would like to have Mr. Arnold's reply to this divagation on Don Quixote. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Cholera has never prevailed in any country without giving rise to extraordinary theoretical and practical divagations. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Consoled, because your mental and emotional climate is not as inartistic as it is painted, you return to Florian-Parmentier and his divagations. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It is a fortress with parade grounds and cricket pitches, a monastery with divagations in port, a school of many things besides arithmetic, and a community that could teach social law to Mr. Hyndman. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z But there is seldom much object in Edward's divagations. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z But the purpose, almost, of my printed divagations was to show you that one can, strange to say, still want to—or at least can behave as if one did. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The people whose sex divagations get most frequently into our courts are those between thirty-five and fifty years of age. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Sinclair is often described as "digressive", but the term doesn't work, for it suggests a central path from which his divagations occur. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z In the course of some studies with Professor Magnan at L'Asile Ste Anne in Paris I saw a number of these curious cases of sexual divagations, exhibitionism, sex perversions and similar conditions. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He talked persistently of Mr. Thomas Atkins, of his artful divagations in peace and his whole-souled valour in war. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The charm of his mind lies in its divagations, its inconsistencies, its puerile and lovable self-revelations, and all these are encouraged by the wandering style common to the author and to his biographer. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The expansion of criticism in the same thirty years was not a whit less marked than the vast divagation of the novel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z These and similar divagations of the ardent male adult Harold had seen—seen with alarm and surprise primarily, then with amused assent. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Returning from our divagation, the amateur of beer may have a big bottle at these Spanish railway hotels for four reals, but I counsel him abstention. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z His own brains moved slowly; frequently he was unable to follow the maid's divagations and speculations. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Many have been the divagations of thought since that time, but now we return to their conclusions. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time That ended the Russian divagation, and it had the effect of making the table-talk impersonal. A Romance in Transit I read it through, and found in it the divagations of a most consummate lady-killer, full of panegyrics on the fair one's charms, oceans of nauseous adulation, stuffed out with verses filched from Metastasio. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second 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. Interpreters His own divagations, his emotional odyssies, his mistresses, would be dim memories now, and he would not have noticed her. Captain Macedoine's Daughter And, further, the term ‘naturalism,’ like every other general label for a way of thinking, is liable to divagations and misunderstandings. Rationalism Let me put a period to my divagations. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Where he stands alone is in a fantastic fertility of divagation and comment which is as much his own as the clear, neat directness of Macaulay is his. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) They are not very easy to select from, for their author's singular tendency to divagation affects them. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The fact was demonstrated by the production of figures and notes on the subject, when he would quite lose himself in bureaucratic divagations. The Grandee They come closer to a certain kind of Addisonian essay, a short lay-sermon, without the charming divagation of the longer articles. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Many and many were the talks they had together; and health and moderation proved the subject of the Doctor’s divagations. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) But the whole—which, after the wont of the time, consists of several pieces jointed on to each other and all flooded with notes—suffers from the twin vices of negation and divagation. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) 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. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing I was just going to my studio, but I will accompany you in your divagations.' A Great Man A Frolic In his finest passages, as in his most trivial, he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But often in his wanderings and divagations of thought does he give us fresh proof of the truism that no two opposing elements meet and fuse without both losing their original identity. The Book of Khalid 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. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition They were almost alive, with that expression of interest which only the lapses and moral divagations of others could arouse in them. The Silver Butterfly She had been Mrs. Oglethorpe's favorite descendant until the resemblance had become too accentuated by modern divagations. Black Oxen I confess that my own enjoyment of Richter, which has nevertheless been considerable, has always been lessened by the presence in him, to a still greater degree, of this same habit of quasi-serious divagation. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 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. Days Off And Other Digressions Adams's approved method commended itself to him; but the hypothetical divagations of Neptune having scarcely yet had time to develop, he was thrown back upon the "residual errors" of Uranus. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 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. En Route One branch of it ran from a point on the Ohio River, through Ohio and Michigan to Detroit; but there were many divagations, many termini, many stations; Oberlin was one of these. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 There is no danger, moreover, in being side-tracked, for such divagations in the realms of bibliography as we may make will serve but to increase our knowledge of books in the right direction. The Book-Hunter at Home 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. The Rainy Day Railroad War It is rare that so many divagations become inevitable. The Paternoster Ruby It seemed to him quite intolerable that he must lie there and smile, and assent politely to the divagations of Olive concerning Brenton's future plans. The Brentons Yes, all these, he admits perhaps proudly, are divagations, and the secret, eternal, and only beauty is not yet found. Figures of Several Centuries One branch of it ran from a point on the Ohio River, through Ohio and Michigan to Detroit; but there were many divagations, many termini, many stations: Oberlin was one of these. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 I would turn up at breakfast any morning and propound some plan for a new divagation. Foe-Farrell 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 B. went on devouring everything that was put before him; but this did not put a stop to his divagations. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry 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. Matthew Arnold 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. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Of these divagations the most conspicuous was a visit paid by Rundle to the Brandwater Basin, wherein the enemy was reported to be once more concentrated. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans I am unable to appreciate your divagations," humbly observed Hohenfels, "though I always thought your language beautiful. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 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. My Friend Prospero Neither Wordsworth nor Coleridge would have had any scruples in doing this, and while Mr Arnold had the sense of the ludicrous which Wordsworth lacked, he was less subject to disastrous divagations than Coleridge. Matthew Arnold But I leave these divagations, which can have but little interest for you. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 Many divagations ensued; few profitable results were attained. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans But its almost illimitable particular capabilities remained unshown, or shown only in Fielding's half extraneous divagations, and in earlier things like the work of Swift. The English Novel The Icelander must tell his story in haste; the deeds of men are his care, not their divagations nor their psychologizings. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature And even with the divagation it was mainly and really this. Matthew Arnold The man who possesses it would be exposed to divagations of the sexual instinct under esthetical or merely wanton influences. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Wepener was indeed relieved, though not from Bloemfontein, but the subsequent divagations of the Boers baffled three British divisions which were endeavouring to squeeze them northwards and head them off. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans But it borrows from the romance-idea the liberty of a large accretion and divagation of minor and accessory plot:—not the mere "episode" of the ancients, but the true minor plot of Shakespeare. The English Novel Like all other divagations on the subject of what may happen in the future, this attempt to forecast has necessarily consisted of "dim glimpses into the obvious," as the undergraduate said of Jowett's sermon. War-Time Financial Problems After these mystic divagations, the writer had experienced a period of calm. Against the Grain It must be acknowledged that God knows what He does, and His omnipotence is assuredly guiltless of the divagations which an impotent mind finds it convenient to attribute to it. Delsarte System of Oratory It was soon apparent that the Free State would not be brought into subjection by haphazard divagations of brigades and columns; and about the middle of June Lord Roberts planned a systematic and simple campaign. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there. Vanity Fair Many and many were the talks they had together; and health and moderation proved the subject of the Doctor’s divagations. Merry Men It is a fantastical story with digressions on music and on popular songs, but running through it all, with the persistency of a fixed idea, are divagations on the subject of earthly metempsychosis. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Pride and fastidiousness and the steel armor fused by circumstances had protected her heretofore from any divagations of her own; nor had crystallized temptation ever approached her. The Sisters-In-Law Elizabeth professed herself utterly shocked by this disclosure of her parent's divagations and conveyed the impression that he should be brought back into the right path and should turn from Prochnow and all his works. Under the Skylights The necessity of keeping to his text prevented his indulgence in the convolutions and divagations dictated by his exuberant fancy when writing on his own account. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Such divagations of taste make the visitor smile, and he thinks perforce of the accounts of the stormy meetings of councillors that find their way into the papers. Modern Painting 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 But there had been no evidence of anything but a young girl's natural love of pleasure since her début in society, and she was quite unaware of Alexina's wicked divagations. The Sisters-In-Law There was really the touch of grace in my poor friend's divagations—the disheartened dandy had so positively turned rhapsodist and seer. A Passionate Pilgrim 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. A Fool for Love It will be conceded that such divagations are difficult to reconcile with the possession of artistic faculties of the highest order. Modern Painting I do not mean that Josephine Peabody's poems resemble glad Polyanna, but I was driven to these divagations by the number of cheery lyrics that she has felt it necessary to write. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Never did he indulge in those divagations so dear to the normal canine heart. From a Bench in Our Square They watch keenly and with reprobation in Mr. Hearst's press our slightest divagations. Nonsenseorship And with this, according to the divagations of their temperaments and characters, the others strenuously concurred. Angel Island You must forgive me for being led away into divagations which seem to be irrelevant to the dramatic sequence. The Red Planet And the same Wilfred "trusted to his perspicacity to discover the parcels of truth rolled by the old servant in the torrent of his divagations." Balzac This episode was only one of Mrs. Grubb's many divagations, for she had been a person of advanced ideas from a comparatively early age. Marm Lisa Man, for her, was a sort of brute who must have his divagations, his moments of excess, his nights out, his, let us say, rutting seasons. The Good Soldier She was, however, one of those girls who start by being "ugly" or "queer-looking," or downright "homely," and end by becoming "interesting" or "picturesque" or "fascinating," according to the divagations of the individual vocabulary. Angel Island Accustomed to such divagations, Hilary answered: "I don't know whether you would be justifed, but I believe that you would strike him." Fraternity Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings. The Ball at Sceaux |
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