There are people who suffer, who divagate, who get climatic.
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But when they had sat down, Julius was little inclined to divagate into an account of his travels.
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Once married, the couple never had the child which might have allowed them to divagate from sour mutual abrasion.
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Well, that seemed to be as good a target to divagate towards as any, so he set off for it.
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Where every episode is presented as in a dramatic present, there can, strictly speaking, be no anticipatory passages or passages of exposition, for there is no fixed line from which to divagate.
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When he does not self-indulgently divagate too much from the subject of the painting, then his humour allows the reader to chuckle genuinely instead of groan as one does after an unfunny joke.
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The pronunciation of the vowel of the prefix di- in words such as dichotomy, digest (verb), dilate, dilemma, dilute, diluvial, dimension, direct, dissect, disyllable, divagate, diverge, diverse, divert, divest, and divulge as well as their derivational forms vary between and or in both British and American English.
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Dromomania is one of a constellation of social constructs to describe contemporary nomadic lifestyles, along with bum, brodyaga, hobo, vagrant, divagate, itinerant, vagabond, transient, tramp, rogue, wanderer Within this constellation, dromomania is an extreme pathologizing term. In the early 20th century, dromomania was classified as one of a number of criminal manias, which were understood to involve irresistible compulsions to act without any motivation and sometimes against the preferences of the actor. Other such criminal manias were kleptomania, pyromania, and dipsomania. The American Prison Association described all of these criminal manias as common among people with psychopathic personalities, who were also described as lacking in purpose and ambition.
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