Jemima Khan

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

English Journalist

Simon Toyne

I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.

British Writer

Edward Zwick

I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.

American Director

Don Kardong

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

American Athlete

Philip Zimbardo

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

American Psychologist

Jacob Rees-Mogg

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

English Politician

J. Michael Bishop

Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.

American Scientist

Prashant Bhushan

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

Indian Lawyer

Valerie Plame

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

American Writer

Hilary Mantel

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

English Writer

Use errant to describe actions that deviate from accepted standards or rules.

Behavioral context

Errant often implies a moral or ethical lapse rather than a simple mistake.

Negative connotation

When correcting someone's 'errant' action, it suggests they significantly veered off course.

Expressing correction

Use errant with adventurers or travelers to show a purposeful journey, often heroic or romantic.

Quest implication

In literary contexts, errant has a romantic or chivalrous quality.

Romantic undertone

Errant is stylish in literary writing; less common in everyday conversation.

Literary usage

Errant suggests something has moved out of its expected location or path.

Physical displacement

Use errant for objects that have taken a wrong turn or deviated from a route.

Mistaken direction

 much energy an errant paddle stroke can lead to disaster when water flips a kayak the paddler first tries to roll upright if that fails the kayaker ditches the boat and starts swimming one of the big consequences of swimming out of your boat is just the loss of buoyancy and so being pulled down deeper in the water

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 we sense there, that it's going to happen, and then we respond by applying an electrical energy at that spot, which erases the errant signal so that you don't get the clinical manifestations of the migraine headache.

Errant

Behavioral context

Negative connotation

Expressing correction

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