The talk had veered to werewolves, vampires, foxwomen, and similar superstitions.
It also meant that with each candidate promoting his own sometimes quirky agenda, talk veered at times from substance to silliness.
From the matter of hunting, the talk veered into a general comparison of Paris and the country.
As Mr. Annenberg was leaving the mansion, the talk veered from paintings to paint jobs.
The talk veered away from the serious topics explored in the sitting room.
The talk around the table veered from music to movies to the house in Glasgow the band shared for three years.
The drinks at the barbershop were muscular and, as is often the case in mixed company, the talk veered to the racial.
And the talk veered into the ordinary topics of a Paris ballroom in the Carnival.
Some of it, he amended honestly, as the talk suddenly veered into a discussion of bag-rot.
Then the talk veered back to drugs and Armstrong's relations with the news media.