How To Use Digress In A Sentence
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At this point I must once again digress briefly to say that I am totally in agreement with the response of the President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Joe Morris, to the announcement last week that the federal government intends to impose works councils on industries coming under federal jurisdiction.
Let's Get Back to People
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I would like to digress at this point, to describe another use for allopruinol which materialized about 10 years later, because it typifies the kind of chemotherapeutic selectivity which can be achieved with purine analogs as the result of differences in the specificties of parasitic and mammalian enzymes.
Nobel Lecture The Purine Path To Chemotherapy
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In fact, the response went on to totally digress from the topic and talked more about the airline’s new premium cabins, and not customer service.
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We get an extended mental digression from him on how to emotionally distance oneself from crying people.
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intermolecular" (and how do you have "intermolecular forces" if you have a gas which isn't molecules, but I digress: -).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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(although that kind of digressed in the latest issue because I wrote about New York's Ra Ra Riot).
Who the bloody hell are they?
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If you expect to develop as a writer you must learn to digress and be at times totally irrelevant.
THE DICE MAN
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But I digress (if not faff): the important point, at least for me, is that I went, I saw, I ate, I drank, but did so without regret or self-recrimination.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 26 Feb
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`I must not digress, but when I look back, I can see the irony of it.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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I'll tell you a funny story,if I may digress from my subject for a monent.
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‘We are already seeing overnighters who have digressed from the tourist drive after seeing our billboards, instantly becoming so comfortable that they stay on for another night or two,’ John said.
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This prompts a digression, as I recall that I once threw a party at a flat I'd recently taken possession of - but before the arrival of my furniture.
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Still, this is digressing from our main point of concern.
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The "swoops, the spirals, the digressions and the reiterations" so characteristic of oral narrative are all there in the novel.
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The Funky Stew on Oct 3, 2008 the only reason ill agree with brad is because of ant man mostly, thor can be done REALLY well, CA im not too fond of anyway, but i digress, i feel like ant man ruins the idea, CA brings it down that much more, and thor will honestly make or break the team completely
Did Jon Favreau Just Reveal The Avengers Line-Up? « FirstShowing.net
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Now day, there is a delicate relation in education, instruction theory and the PC game. There is digressive problem between education theory and education actuality.
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But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
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Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches.
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Every one of these embarrassing digressions from a pure focus on gun rights drives away more and more people who don’t agree with the position being pandered to.
The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness.
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With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.
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For, as noted above, Tasso's is the first vernacular poem to mold Musaeus in the Ovidian heroic manner: apostrophe, ethopoeia and digressive mythopoeia abound.
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Not to digress from the thread about Darth Cheney, but there’s a copy of the suspect’s manifesto online.
Think Progress » Dick Cheney makes surprise appearance at CPAC to chants of ‘Cheney! Cheney! Cheney!’
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Hm. Some terms from classical rhetoric involving the canon of arrangement: dispositio taxis enumeratio merismus catacosmesis chiasmus digressio epiphonema (my personal favorite) complexio
Names are important « Dyepot, Teapot
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But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material.
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What lifted the book above the level of conventional historical fiction were its regular metafictional digressions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Scilicet hic illi meditantur pondera mores; hic premitur fecunda quies uirtusque serena fronte grauis sanusque nitor luxuque carentes deliciae, quas ipse suis digressus Athenis mallet deserto senior Gargettius horto; 95 haec per et Aegaeas hiemes Hyadumque niuosum sidus et Oleniis dignum petiisse sub astris, si Maleae credenda ratis Siculosque per aestus sit uia: cur oculis sordet uicina uoluptas? hic tua Tiburtes Faunos chelys et iuuat ipsum100
A Villa at Tibur
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But that kind of digressive storytelling makes me wonder if "Mad Men" will ever truly be a crossover hit - something that rises above, say, 2 or 3 million viewers.
Undefined
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But we are digressing from a totally pointless and inane post here.
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Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
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I'm digressing but the point is it wasn't hard to imagine a member of my family being a criminal; I was kind of getting used to it.
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May I digress from our discussions for a moment and remind you that the train leaves at ten o'clock.
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The book is so full of events, meanderings, digressions, legends, conversations, and adventures, that a patient reader will never find his interest exhausted.
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And feel free to move this post to the "Open Thread", as it is quite a digression from the original topic.
A mammalian fossil takes wing
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This leads King into an extended digression on Michelangelo's use of nudity, including the evidence that the artist had studied dissected corpses in great detail.
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Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.
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Postquam Cyrenenses aliquanto posteriores se vident et ob rem corruptam [413] domi poenas metuunt, criminari Carthaginienses ante tempus domo digresses, conturbare rem, [414] denique omnia malle quam victi abire.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Any argument about its fate that digresses from this fact threatens to dissolve into the putrid river of disingenuous excuses the administration keeps spewing forth to drown the truth.
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I'll tell you a funny story,if I may digress from my subject for a monent.
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Don't agree the fiver is a digression - even if it had been 50p or £5000, it would be equally contemptible.
Guy Fawkes' blog
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And here, perhaps, we may be pardoned for the digression necessary to show the exact definition of the terms abolish, abolition and abolitionist.
The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
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Particularly by that wee digression from the source text (the whole mother not dying thing).
I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!
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By the way, how do you 'digress' in a topic labeled General?
�Viva M�xico!
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The reader will pardon a digression in which so invaluable a secret is communicated, since every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
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Yes, CHRIST speaks as one who commands and is obeyed in his own right: but have you not digressed from the chief matter in hand?
A Few Words to the Soldiers of the Confederate States.
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But what? methinks I deserve to be pounded, for straying from poetry to oratory: but both have such an affinity in this wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection, grown among the most part of writers: that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner; whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it.
English literary criticism
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Eugenides lets us know he knows what we know about the fictiveness of fiction; he even evokes "Tristram Shandy's" digressive account of the narrator's own conception.
The Gender Blender
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It's a whole 'nother post to explain why that level of meddling megalomania is kind of pathological for a multi-billion-dollar global corporation, but let's not digress too much.
Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
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However space does not permit me to digress into this topic.
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I am digressing, but with the purpose of emphasising the power of the pencil.
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But I return from this digression on the peril of idolatry, to which as well the theory as the practice of {244} the Roman Catholic Church exposes her members; and willingly repeat my disclaimer of any wish or intention whatever to fasten and filiate upon the Church of Rome the doctrines or the practice of individuals, or even of different sections of her communion.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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He seemed eager to run out the clock as he filled time with digressions and minor details.
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OpenVolokh: Anyway, I digress, the survey is about supply, not shortages.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:
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If you expect to develop as a writer you must learn to digress and be at times totally irrelevant.
THE DICE MAN
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I must digress and say that hazelnuts, also called filberts, are absolutely my most favorite nut, so it's no wonder that I adore these Ferrero Rocher confections!
Epinions Recent Content for Home
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Then there is the way senators speak - at length, often alone in the august hall but for a C-Span camera, with bonus points for detailed digressions and polysyllabic words.
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I have 'digressed' from that task for too long now.
OpEdNews - Diary: Some Truth For A Change
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But I'm digressing, this post is all about the music, not my brain rotting youth.
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Don't wander from the subject: stick to the point , ie Don't digress.
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I'll tell you a funny story,if I may digress from my subject for a monent.
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The reason for this historic digression is that Jordan has made an interesting discovery.
Perfect timing
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Apollonius filius tuus in flore decessit, ante nos ad aeternitatem digressus, tanquam e convivio abiens, priusquam in errorem aliquem e temulentia incideret, quales in longa senecta accidere solent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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While the body of the poem often stands in for the body of the poet, acting as a surrogate for the experience of such a biography, the body of the text in this case has gone missing, leaving behind only the exuviae of the work itself — the set of afterthoughts found in annotations and digressions, allegedly presented after the fact by experts, who have prepared this text for scholastic discussion.
Quick Review 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
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They loved him even more when he digressed from his prepared speech to intervene in domestic British politics.
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He enters upon long digressions, and his illustrative anecdotes expand into separate episodes.
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Christopher's digressions into maths and existential questions amplify what is, on one level, a family drama with a whodunnit attached.
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You could end up in a frame of mind, a digressive meditation on the dislocation of people or cultures, or you could end up in prison.
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His so-called digressions have always some cogent reason in them; they are his means of including in the panorama a scene essential to its completeness.
Authors of Greece
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Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions.
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It's possible something has been lost in the translation; the story feels bitty and cluttered by digressions, while the whimsical air is irritating rather than amusing.
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There are lengthy digressions on Milton, Fulke Greville and Marvell, poets whose vivid personal histories Greville was murdered by a servant in 1628 make for good reading but whose connection with the Cavalier theme seems tangential.
Pens at the Ready
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I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.
Cake
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Sgt. Malone, masseur, is doing excellently in private practice, and I hope all of you will remember him, and here I am going to make a little digression.
The Training of Blind Soldiers in England
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After several digressions, he finally got to the point.
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Forget the unwieldy title and worthy subject matter, this is a breathless piece of reportage, like a vintage New Yorker feature put to film: expansive, comic, digressive and ever so slightly demented.
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Moreover, she approaches subjects indirectly, digressing frequently on peripheral topics and only slowly coming to the point.
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Works such as Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy made digressiveness itself a part of the satire.
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After many turnings (alias digressions), to say nothing of downright overthrows, stops, and delays, we have arrived in three weeks at Toulouse, and are now settled in our houses with servants, &c., about us, and look as composed as if we had been here seven years.
Selected English Letters
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The audience cried the speaker down as soon as he started on a third digression.
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I just met you and I already think you’re awesome. on January 4, 2008 at 12: 00 pm | Reply damsel in digress awesome post, ds. i hate that i went missing … i feel like i have so much catching up to do! but posts like this?
A reawakening. «
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Bardic verse was part of an oral tradition defined by strict metrical patterns, combining original narrative with stock formulaic phrases, elaborate similes and extended digressions.
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In ancient Greek rhetoric, the aposiopesis occasionally takes the form of a pause before a change of subject or a digression.
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Warning: all this post is a digression from the topic!
Page 2
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Having digressed so far, I can not resist going a little further.
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Anyway I digress, that is alleged schoolboy nazi salutes under the bridge.
In Vino Veritas Round Up: Lib Dem Pisshead Squeals
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Then again, that's a polemical way of describing a work that is essentially digressive in nature, elusive in meaning and more entertaining than it has any right to be.
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His youth having been marked by some digressions from the "'haviour of reputation," his profession was far from affording him a subsistence; and the revolution, which seems to have called forth all that was turbulent, unprincipled, or necessitous in the country, naturally found a partizan in an attorney without practice.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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The one that was given a short second season because a lot of crazy fans sent in tons of nuts, only to not tune in and actually watch the second season, but I digress.
March 2009
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I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap.
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I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap.
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However, I am digressing from the main point that I am trying to put across in this letter, which is the attitude of most Namibians when it comes to criticism.
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Actually, this blog post should probably have been called digressions, since I seem to have written next to nothing about bluffing.
Archive 2009-06-01
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The text is dotted with digressions.
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But to return from this digression: Mr. B — advised me to send a requete or petition to the chancellor of France, that I might obtain an order to have my books examined on the spot, by the president of Boulogne, or the procureur du roy, or the sub-delegate of the intendance.
Travels through France and Italy
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Forgive me if I have digressed a bit, but I felt the makeup and flavor of the community was important to share.
Pearl Korn: Small Businesses: The Heart Of Our Communities
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But beyond that we are into the realm of pontification and digression.
Times, Sunday Times
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In either case, this backfires because his fans may feel robbed of witnessing his all-conquering self-parody, but I digress.
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There's a whole digressive thread just in that, I think.
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The tiny animation is just one example of the playful digressiveness of this book.
Kent's Bike Blog
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- I4v - an affinitie in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach Poets how they should do, but only finding my selfe sicke among the rest, to shew some one or two spots of the common infection growne among the most part of writers; that acknowledging our selves somewhat awry, wee may bende to the right use both of matter and manner.
Defence of Poesie
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The plot heats up as lovers change partners, but for long stretches, the author pretty much abandons plot for a (usually amusing) digression.
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The old professor used to digress from his subject for a moment to tell his students a funny story.
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Roberts has clearly carefully read Gulliver's Travels and in this sequel he uses some of the same diction and language of Jonathan Swift, whilst simultaneously pursuing some of the same themes and ideas there is a lenghthy digression related to faeces, which is highly reminiscent of Swift's own use of dubious imagery in the original.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Right now he's sitting on my living room couch, taking a haul off a cigarette after a digressive second attempt at explaining what inspired him to do a show about old people, the upcoming Golden Age.
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As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
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What good prose needs, and all too often lacks, is the syntactic dislocation, the rhythmical shifts that only these digressive devices can offer.
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For all his digressiveness, he constantly selects and shapes, for he ever desires to maintain control over the emotions that he provokes in his reader.
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Last week I reread Gulliver's Travels, it's for the chapter I'm writing for the book on breeding the chapter's about the idea of perfectibility, Swift to Godwin, with digressions on horse-breeding and cultural versus genetic perfectibility; Swift really is the most amazing writer, there's no one else like him.
Derek Mahon on Swift's poetry
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She digresses into a long dissertation on gun control and abortion.
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The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link.
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He surged into a historical digression about Augusta Alexandra Feldbausch and her long, miserable marriage with Paul von Doenecke.
TOY SHOP
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Or from a Zen perspective, you're trying to reach that state of mushin where you are in total focus and concentration, where the mind and body have become one (which is also illustrated in "kime" where you unlock your ki/chi in a split second, but I digress yet again).
MSDN Blogs
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But I digress, that is not what I’m writing about, I am writing about a place near the Rockefeller Center.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Fan post about Nintendo World
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This may be referred either to the immediately foregoing verse, That you faint not, &c., or, rather, the apostle is here resuming what he began at the first verse, from which he digressed in those which are interposed.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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But this is a tedious digression to make, while Arthur and the baronet are putting on their Sunday "togs" and brushing up their Sunday "tiles" preparatory to going down to meet the 9.40 train from London.
The Master of the Shell
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But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt.
The Guardian World News
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Finally, in what can only be described as a digression from a digression, I feel compelled to mention that there is a multi-purpose, high quality item, within reach theoretically, that I cannot bring myself to buy, though I am convinced of its usefulness and value.
Toast:
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Ndor lau is a glittering unprofitably quotes for life, who fuzz by abstractness car carangid at charmer on the digressive admonishment of nowadays gavialidae.
Rational Review
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Almost none of these fights are necessary to the plot; instead, they are pointless digressions, guaranteed to frustrate any viewer actually taking an interest in the story.
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Don't digress when you give a lecture
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Anyway I digress, see what a minefield this subject is!
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The enthusiasm with which he talks about dingoes wanes as he digresses further into his history: British uranium mining and nuclear testing on Aboriginal land.
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And then it digressed into unprintable scenarios.
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They point to hand-lettered reminiscences in the margins about his digressive rediscovery of the country, which took him from washing dishes in a Sydney hotel to membership of an Aboriginal community near Darwin.
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Game for a laugh is Denis, but I digress.
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I had a chuckle looking at Oprah so far removed from her own Mississippi roots when she couldn't even lift up a bucket of water to balance on her head, like the young girl she was with here's a clue, Oprah: it's called a bandanna, you wrap it around like a turban, place it on your head, and if positioned correctly, the bucket should balance itself on this apparatus - I'm sure your rural, impoverished grandmother knew something about this, if you had listened to her various instructions instead of daydreaming that you would never do what she was doing; you might have spared yourself the embarrassment of not being able to do what most women of African descent in this world know how to do - but I digress.
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy: Black Feminism, Surrogate Motherhood, or Colonialist Fantasy?
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There was, of course, along the way, the requisite diabolical genius-one of the living dead-and that half mad art prof who spoke in rambling "Blake-ian" parables that sometimes luminesced, but I digress.)
Rate Your Students
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However, this general problem of the volume is enlivened by a few apparently illogical digressions and unclassifiable curiosities.
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Not surprisingly, the result is often uneven and digressive.
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The moment one begins to unpack the box though, to explain the simplest text, where it comes from, where it goes, one begins to see the parenthetic and digressive manner of imbrication of text and context.
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My best resource would be in the circumjacent history of the times, and perhaps in some digressions artfully introduced, like the fortunes of the Peripatetic philosophy in the portrait of Lord Bacon.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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Many novels contain what I call the digression-into-theme.
The authority to comment
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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I've digressed a little to explain the situation so far, so let me now recap.
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In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, - and at the same time.
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During the lecture, Miller often digressed to give the history behind each theory.
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Apollonius filius tuus in flore decessit, ante nos ad aeternitatem digressus, tanquam e convivio abiens, priusquam in errorem aliquem e temulentia incideret, quales in longa senecta accidere solent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Which windy digression brings us back by prosy degrees to Bruce and to the Hampton dogshow.
Bruce
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If I may digress for a paragraph, the only thing that stops it from being a very good film is, ironically, that much-quoted god-awful final fifteen minutes.
Scott Mendelson: Dirty Dancing Remake: Original's Feminism, Liberalism Would Be 'Daring' Today
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The main theme of the book is obscured by frequent digressions.
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I think that last sentence with its circumlocutions and three parenthetical digressions is indicative of my distracted or distractible state of mind ...
Breakfast in Bed
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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When he's off, he's digressive, roundabout; his stump speeches sit there; his zingers don't zing.
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It didn't matter that the film digressed from the book's plot, because the experience of having both stories (book and film) in effect gave us one great story and then another great story with the same characters.
Hush-Hush
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This thread, having digressed from the original post, is now locked.
Alaskan woman kidnapped
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Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
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These detours add depth to the narrative, but the sheer volume of digressive material becomes a distraction, and Ms. Stanton struggles to identify a clear thematic, intellectual or narrative arc in Mr. Avery's activities.
A Never-Ending Treasure Hunt
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The discussion is digressive and overly credulous of literary and semi-historical sources, while scanting archeology.
My Proposal for the Nirthers
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May 23, 2006, 10: 18 am auto insurance fraud says: auto insurance fraud inquisitively! allegretto bantering gallery digressing
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arafat. Godfather of Terror:
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Do you mind if I digress for a moment?
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`It's something many people do, as if their...' I didn't want him to digress on to an apologia for Florence's behaviour.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Ten years down the road he decides to try his luck in the music business, which is an early anticlimax compared to the possibility of him producing big studio pictures, but I digress.
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I can not here digress to give proofs, but there is no doubt that the second woe of Revelation (see chap. 9: 13-20) signifies the political dominancy of the Ottoman Empire.
The Last Reformation
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But you already knew that. on December 19, 2007 at 1: 07 pm | Reply damsel in digress i’m going to just be repeating everyone (damn my tardiness in getting around to your comments) but
Culture shock. «
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However, I shall not digress via the ugab and the shawm, tempted as I might be.
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His work has the telegraphic simplicity of aboriginal craft and generic morphologies, rather than the more digressive and particularized qualities of realistically mimetic images.
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Except for a few meandering authorial digressions, the novel maintains a cracking pace from start to finish.
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But I digress, the Buddha bar which you are so disparaging is made with Apricot Seed Powder.
New Exfoliants at Bramble Berry!
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But I digress: point being, excepting the issue of promotion alluded to in the original post, do we accept that young designers can be credible voices in terms of invigorating critical dialog?
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We write, therefore, with correspondent carelessness or digressiveness, upon incidents that, in passing, have merely amused us — quite prepared to find that they are not so amusing (at second-hand) to others.
Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to
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Except for a few meandering authorial digressions, the novel maintains a cracking pace from start to finish.
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He can lecture at some length on the origins of the language, and it's only the mention of ventriloquism that prompts him to digress again.
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Yet even discounting the frequent abstractness and digressiveness of his writing style, he remains a somewhat elusive thinker.
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So as in this part of knowledge, touching divine philosophy, I am so far from noting any deficience, as I rather note an excess; whereunto I have digressed because of the extreme prejudice which both religion and philosophy hath received and may receive by being commixed together; as that which undoubtedly will make an heretical religion, and an imaginary and fabulous philosophy.
The Advancement of Learning
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For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of Nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of generations, productions, and motions; whether they be singularities of place and region, or the strange events of time and chance, or the effects of yet unknown properties, or the instances of exception to general kinds.
The Advancement of Learning
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In describing how William Driver first gave this banner the name "Old Glory", the speaker digressed from his prepared script, and explained how Captain Driver had hidden the first "Old Glory" from searching Confederate troops by stitching it inside his bedquilt.
Grouse Diary Entry
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She always digresses when telling a story
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This is an authentic confessional, full of self-corrections and digressions and commentary on itself, without ever feeling contrived or artificial.
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Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.
Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday
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Even the digression up to Cajamarca now seemed in retrospect more like an adventure than something to send shivers down the spine.
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Ha! another knee to the groin of the dkos and firedog lake peaceniks who imagined that a dem prez would restore the constitution and a digression) so when the die hard rethugs realise that being more militaristic than stepinfetchit just isn't possible they will hunt around for something to discredit the way that oblamblamblam goes about killing unwhite folks.
Moon of Alabama
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Anyway, my minor digression leads me to my point.
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But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
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amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
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She gets this so wrong it's not funny and I'm tempted to digress with some comments on the historical link between fascism and corporatism - but why bother.
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Wow, I have digressed so far even I can't remember what this was about.
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Last but not least, the" digressive style"which separated from principal plot, adjusts the narrative rhythm and adds appeal to the language.
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It was a silly digression, but one that's effective in showing him as a flummoxed lummox.
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a digressive allusion to the day of the week
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Anyhow, digressions aside, this guy was completely incapable of performing his job with any degree of skill.
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Oh, darn, I've digressed from placelessness to my deep discomfort with my family's contention that Animal, Vegetable, Miracle proves I should not be vegetarian if I care about the planet.
The quest for placelessness
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But we are digressing from a totally pointless and inane post here.
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Another digression - the terrifying industrial mulcher.
Crap Piles and Wabi-Sabi
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Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday.
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The narratives vary, however, in the degree to which they are linear and in the extent to which they are digressive or resolved, and in the way events are organised according to the rules of psychological and causal motivation.
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She's way too excited to tell you about EVERYTHING, and often goes off on wild tangents and digressions just to get out a pretty straightforward tale.
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If it was Greek, it would be poleis," he says, ending the digression.
London's Mayor Issues a Challenge to Gordon Brown
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It appears to be a specially successful job considering the verbosity and digressiveness of the novel of this writer who, though often brilliant, writes in a highly disorderly way.
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To return from this digression, we were about to say, that these are the sort of people whom you see talking, and attitudinising, outside the stage – doors of our minor theatres.
Sketches by Boz
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Anyway, I digress, the survey is about supply, not shortages.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Further Left You Are the Less You Know About Economics:
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My informants, many of whom I have known for more than a decade, digressed through contradictory narrations.
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The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory.
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His characters live untidy lives and often fall into digressive daydreams, so troubled are their souls.
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I'll tell you a funny story,if I may digress from my subject for a monent.
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But both have such an affinity in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only, finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection grown among the most part of writers; that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner: whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being, indeed, capable of any excellent exercising of it.
The Defense of Poesy
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Postquam Cyrenenses aliquanto posteriores se vident et ob rem corruptam [413] domi poenas metuunt, criminari Carthaginienses ante tempus domo digresses, conturbare rem, [414] denique omnia malle quam victi abire.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
