All 3 Uses of
deflect
in
The House of Mirth
- "I don't flatter myself that my coming has deflected your course of action by a hair's breadth."†
Chpt 1.6 *
- To Gerty herself it would once have seemed impossible that she should ever again talk freely with him of Lily Bart; but what had passed in the secrecy of her own breast seemed to resolve itself, when the mist of the struggle cleared, into a breaking down of the bounds of self, a deflecting of the wasted personal emotion into the general current of human understanding.†
Chpt 2.8
- Selden did not allow the allusion to deflect him from his point; he merely said with completer fulness of emphasis: "The question of being inside or out is, as you say, a small one, and it happens to have nothing to do with the case, except in so far as Mrs. Hatch's desire to be inside may put you in the position I call false."†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(deflect) turn aside from a fixed direction or line of interest