Sentence examples for derail conversation from inspiring English sources

While the hearing was explicitly intended to focus on FISA, its timing — a day before former FBI Director James Comey will testify for the first time since his firing — led Senators to frequently derail conversation around the intended topic.

The idea being to derail conversations and, therefore, shut people up.

But even this can derail conversations and have a chilling effect on writers.

I don't want white people to talk over me, dismiss my experiences, or derail conversations about race but I do want them to engage.

Like "not all men," this defense is used to derail conversations about racism by reminding people of color that some white people are "good," and that not all white people are actually racist.

There needs to be a middle-ground between sites where only the intelligentsia are creators, and the chaos of old-school forums where anonymous trolling derails conversation.

"Not all Christians" is an interruption tactic that derails conversations about a general expression of the problematic facets of Christianity by making it about the individual exception(s) to the presented critique.

Fellow board members derail the conversation by introducing issues that are off-topic.

Thirty-nine percent report that their fellow board members derail the conversation by introducing issues that are off topic.

This attempts to derail to conversation and shift it from the discussion of real incidents of sexism to something else.

Any desire to "have the talk" is almost immediately succeeded by some deflection, an effort to derail the conversation or change the discussion and shift attention.