digressive

How To Use digressive In A Sentence

• 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.
• In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, - and at the same time.
• When he's off, he's digressive, roundabout; his stump speeches sit there; his zingers don't zing.
• 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
• The discussion is digressive and overly credulous of literary and semi-historical sources, while scanting archeology. My Proposal for the Nirthers
• His work has the telegraphic simplicity of aboriginal craft and generic morphologies, rather than the more digressive and particularized qualities of realistically mimetic images.
• 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
• Yet even discounting the frequent abstractness and digressiveness of his writing style, he remains a somewhat elusive thinker.
• amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
• Last but not least, the" digressive style"which separated from principal plot, adjusts the narrative rhythm and adds appeal to the language.