How To Use Digression In A Sentence
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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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But all this is what they call a digression; it has nothing to do with the dragon's teeth I am now narrating.
The Wouldbegoods
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Considered in themselves, in their style and sentiment, the little digressions, the long conversations, the carefully wrought side-scenes are so rich in a certain tender religious wisdom, yet crisp and piquant withal, and so full of living thought on the great questions of the day, that we dwell in them with enjoyment, though with a compunctious half-consciousness that they ought not to be there.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
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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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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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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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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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Anyway, after that little digression, I am pleased to report that we had a deluge of rain here yesterday.
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Another digression - the terrifying industrial mulcher.
Crap Piles and Wabi-Sabi
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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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It was a silly digression, but one that's effective in showing him as a flummoxed lummox.
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Anyway, my minor digression leads me to my point.
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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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I do agree that the digressions were a lot of fun – there must be a way to make those digressions literary somehow.
The Book Club « Tales from the Reading Room
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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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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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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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Except for a few meandering authorial digressions, the novel maintains a cracking pace from start to finish.
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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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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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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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The main theme of the book is obscured by frequent digressions.
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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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Many novels contain what I call the digression-into-theme.
The authority to comment
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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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By way of digression and as an aside, here's a little anecdote from education.
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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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When read straight through, the narrative digressions take the reader on a meandering path that resembles hypertextual linking.
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This, it is hoped, will excuse certain short digressions which are sometimes inserted, and which the laws of correct writing allow when not too long, frequent, or foreign, when they have a natural connection with the subject, and when the want of regularity is compensated by greater perspicuity and utility.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The reason for this is interesting, and worth a digression because it provides a good genetic analogy.
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By my rambling digression , I perceive myself to be grown old.
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The plots of William Gaddis's novels allow ample opportunity for philosophical, theological, and society digression.
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Let’s make another digression to flesh out the idea of osmotic pressure, which is one of the most important forces acting in the human body.
Dietary protein, serum albumin and health | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Here is an instance where the waw with a perfect merely expresses "a digression or an epexegesis," as
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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such digressions can lead us too far afield
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Much of his poetry is technically weak and diffuse, marred by careless versification, awkward shifts in diction, overblown rhetoric, and homiletic digressions.
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Dostoevsky smooths the transition from the usual narrative past tense to the present tense used here by preceding this passage with lengthy narrative digression in which the narrator refers to his own present situation (writing).
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a digression into irrelevant details
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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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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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There is a large cast of secondary characters in Metropolis, as well as many side stories and digressions from the main narrative, on topics such as street paving, sewer building, underwater caisson excavation, women's health and bacteriology.
Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney: Questions
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After several long digressions he finally reached the interesting part of the story.
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The only relevance of this digression is that it was Patrick Thursfield who rescued the Tent Club minutes and record books from destruction and preserved them, before handing them to the Vice Consulate for safe keeping.
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The main theme of the book is obscured by frequent digressions.
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If I may be permitted a digression into vomitous travelogue clichés, my experiences this summer will forever change the way I think about culture.
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Her gun kicked to the right; the second time around she allowed for the digression.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Most of this essay will be a lengthy digression, a prolegomenon to a much needed investigation of the material specificity of film in relation to the female body and its syntax.
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(Notice how I used "arguably" to avoid digression from the immediate topic - not to avoid actually making a point.) "Now that I've partly diminished my own enjoyment of this by having to explain the humour ...
The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short - Boing Boing
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But he does serve up plenty of anecdotes about ranching life in the western United States, as well as welcome digressions on the economics of modern-day beef raising and the basics of bovine psychology.
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At that moment, however, David Ladd couldn't afford the luxury of a digression into weather.
KISS OF THE BEES
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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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Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions.
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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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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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He enters upon long digressions, and his illustrative anecdotes expand into separate episodes.
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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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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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The reason for this historic digression is that Jordan has made an interesting discovery.
Perfect timing
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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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He seemed eager to run out the clock as he filled time with digressions and minor details.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.
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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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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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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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What lifted the book above the level of conventional historical fiction were its regular metafictional digressions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
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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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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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- 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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But beyond that we are into the realm of pontification and digression.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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The text is dotted with digressions.
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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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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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Warning: all this post is a digression from the topic!
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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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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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The audience cried the speaker down as soon as he started on a third digression.
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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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After several digressions, he finally got to the point.
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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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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