All 4 Uses of
diversion
in
Gone with the Wind
- He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting, gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that these pleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.†
Chpt 1.2
- I have so few diversions here.†
Chpt 4.34 *
- But she restrained herself and she found that twisting Yankee men around her finger was no more difficult than that same diversion had been with Southern men.†
Chpt 4.38
- Only this was no diversion but a grim business.†
Chpt 4.38
Definition:
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(diversion as in: a diversion to draw troops away) a distraction -- something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else