Sentence examples for derail into from inspiring English sources

The family members who agonize over Gladys's retreat from reality are themselves given to lesser versions of what they deplore in her: repeating the same questions and phrases, disputing past events, forgetting names and places, following trains of thought that derail into non sequiturs.

In speeches that sometimes wear on and sometimes derail into deadening policy, sharing bleak stories can focus the audience's attention.

Yet it's still easy for the narrative around the protests to derail into a debate about free speech, the right to protest and respect for the flag.

I have a plot in mind, but I want to keep it a secret just a while longer, especially since it will probably derail into something completely different, as most of the game has".

Is it really surprising that Saint Elizabeth, who bravely battles terminal breast cancer would derail into a Sybil-like snake hissing at aides in frustration that the Rielle Hunter story wasn't contained and alternatively needed, demanded, begged that they say John Edwards' aide Andrew Young was the father, even though deep in her decaying bones she knew it wasn't true.

A: Because then the conversation could be derailed into talking about moderation rather than the established or initial topic.

An unlikely friendship between a man and a woman — both infatuated with a talking bird statue — derails into a quiet, pitiless nightmare.

Women, she said, "feel it's better to put their energy into that than into fighting the old system and being derailed into sidelines".

Bill lights up behind his kit: "Ahhh, one of the mighty Fowlers," he says, and rehearsal derails into a chat about The Magic Band.

"Tango Fire," which was performed twice on Sunday at Town Hall, glides along as smoothly as an express train without ever derailing into a pseudo-seduction melodrama.

I found myself derailed into a dark parallel universe where I held hands with the distraught women who came to us – a small newspaper in a foreign language – because nobody else would listen.