You mustn't hesitate or deviate when speaking.
Sometimes, just occasionally, a politician deviates from their speaking notes or the carefully-calibrated party line and calls bullshit on something important.
Only one presenter dared to deviate from the script and speak out in support of those who risk prison to campaign for greater democratic rights in the former Soviet republic.
It's a gay slur used to wound both LGBTQ people and any heterosexuals who deviate from the norm in the way they speak or dress.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, speaking after Mr. Summers, began by saying he would deviate from his printed remarks to respond to previous speakers who had been too pessimistic in their diagnosis of the situation.
Further, the authors, who frequently deviated from straight science-speak into lyrical prose, confessed that "... herring fresh from the water are among the most delicious of our fishes......
By Ryan Lizza July 19, 2016 Tom Cotton, the first-term senator from Arkansas, never deviated from the teleprompter and spoke for less than eight minutes.
Sandwiched somewhere between the "Duck Dynasty" guy and Rudy Giuliani's near aneurysm, Cotton, the thirty-nine-year-old first-term senator from Arkansas who was touted, before the rise of Trump, as the future of the Party, never deviated from the teleprompter and spoke for less than eight minutes.
In one, entitled "Ali the Queer", a man speaks of his longing for a world in which those who deviate from the heterosexual standard are no longer considered unnatural or abnormal.
Perhaps we would all be wise to remember that, while studies speak in broad generalities, love, I'm told, requires finding only the "one" (who may, in fact, deviate from the statistical norm).
