However we diverge politically, I have enough faith in Eastwood's artistry and intellect to trust that he is not a black-and-white ideologue – or, at least, that he knows that the limitations of such a worldview would make for an extremely dull movie.
But the underlying cause is the continuing flatlining of the economy and the coalition's real-terms cuts to welfare and health spending, from which Labour would be unlikely to diverge in dramatic ways.
The policies she has released so far appear to diverge from staunch conservatism – she supports Labor's National Broadband Network over the Coalition's, is comfortable with same-sex marriage, urges compassion for refugees and wants the creaking train service fixed.
Seeing everyone's different reactions to these tests has heightened the social dynamic of the evening: the experience remains shared, but we are all thinking about what our fellow drinkers are tasting, where our experiences meet and where they diverge.
But, paradoxically, as Scotland's voting behaviour continued to diverge from the rest of the UK, it increasingly resembled the rest of the country.
Then, the two indices began to diverge, with GPI holding steady while GDP continued to increase.
That was then compared with the views of professional forecasters, as revealed in various surveys.Strikingly, the researchers find that the views of retail investors show a sharp rise in dispersion just before recessions, whereas the views of professional forecasters do not diverge until the tail end of recessions.
On any of the challenges common to all the countries in that vast area from collective security to energy supplies to minority rights—views diverge.
In future, he says, Japan should pursue its own path when its interests diverge from America's, refusing help to America's global military adventures, and joining only those missions led by the United Nations.
Indeed, the very idea there was a single Ur-text from which later versions diverge either more or less is hardly tenable, as Mr Vermes persuasively argues.Many believers in revealed religion, especially those who regard text as the primary medium of revelation, will find that hard.
Yet Mr Modi's messages and those of his allies diverge.
