divergent

And here the importance of the principle of benefit being derived from divergence of character comes in; for this will generally lead to the most different or divergent variations (represented by the outer dotted lines) being preserved and accumulated by natural selection.

In its third period, therefore, epic poetry shows two divergent tendencies.

The principles of Radicalism and aristocracy seem so divergent."

Yes, I have said it and I now repeat it: our destinies are irrevocably united, although we now pursue divergent roads.

The reflection which resulted from this refraction was, necessarily, divergent and perverted.

What did love have to do with Ruth's divergent views on art, right conduct, the French Revolution, or equal suffrage?

And such was her brightness that the shadows of all objects lay divergent from her feet, turning as she moved.

This too familiar intonation, less than four years earlier, had brought to her ears expressions of such divergent purpose that her heart became quite sick at the irony of the contrast.

Next, Daylight surmised that he might be touched with religion; but, quest about as he would, in a conversation covering the most divergent topics, he could find no hint of queerness or unusualness.

In his great work on Divergent Lines of Racial Evolution , the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture -- the shrug -- among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell.

Shuttleworthy, and, for good reasons, searched in quarters as divergent as possible from those to which Mr.

And at midnight we see the theatre break up and discharge its swarm of hilarious youth and beauty; we hear the cries of the hackman-gondoliers, and behold the struggling crowd jump aboard, and the black multitude of boats go skimming down the moonlit avenues; we see them separate here and there, and disappear up divergent streets; we hear the faint sounds of laughter and of shouted farewells floating up out of the distance; and then, the strange pageant being gone, we have lonely stretches of glittering water --of stately buildings--of blotting shadows--of weird stone faces creeping into the moonlight--of deserted bridges--of motionless boats at anchor.