All 5 Uses of
deflect
in
Dune
- He flexed the fingers of his left hand, watching her crawl through the sphincter valve, knowing that he could not deflect her from this determination …. that he must agree.†
Book 2
- There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.†
Book 2
- Paul's defensive reactions were blindingly fast, but they moved each time at the precisely correct angle they would take if a shield were helping deflect part of Jamis' blow.†
Book 2
- But he could feel the demanding race consciousness within him, his own terrible purpose, and he knew that no small thing could deflect the juggernaut.†
Book 2 *
- But he knew he could not let any consideration deflect him.†
Book 3
Definition:
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(deflect) turn aside from a fixed direction or line of interest