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Digression meaning
An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing. | The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect. | A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
Synonyms of Digression
Digression vertaling naar Nederlands
Example sentences (15)
After an impromptu digression, Miller was glad to return to our original topic—sports.
Until this point, Aristotle has spent most of his time on a patient explanation of the virtues of character, with only a brief digression to tell us about the virtues of the intellect.
But first a small digression back into the pages of one of my favourite novels, Any Human Heart, by William Boyd.
Unimportant but interesting digression: Corn always has an even number of rows of kernels.
With that little digression out of the way, it is back to the two candidates, now effectively reduced to one.
However, I will make a brief digression to talk about how much the shot of Kylo’s reconstructed helmet bums me out.
I say, he is advancing hatred and digression.
To an extent, this digression is probably unavoidable: abroad, Thatcher’s power and status peaked later than they did at home.
Also, the comic has a completely random digression where Stephen gives Peter the power to talk to an actual spider, and suddenly we have artwork.
After this sad digression, the festival resumed full speed in 1946, after the war.
In a digression the tale of Cupid and Psyche is artfully told.
Milder (1988), 434 Bryant and Springer find that the book is structured around the two consciousnesses of Ahab and Ishmael, with Ahab as a force of linearity and Ishmael a force of digression.
Socrates admits this was a digression that threatens to drown his original project, which was to define knowledge.
Without any digression, he went straight into the middle of the enemy camp, which inescapably led to him being seized and presented to the emperor.
XI 14 is often thought to be a good example: the digression on the history of writing is actually Claudius' own argument for his new letters, and fits in with his personality and extant writings.