Digressions

After a crushing decade, Ouologuem returned to Mali, where he remained resolutely silent on the matter, responding to questions about his aborted literary career with digressions or outbursts of anger, refusing even to speak French.

But he also went on meandering digressions.

Donald J. Trump has long sprinkled his speeches with baffling digressions — weighing the relative merits of death by electrocution or shark attackcomparing immigrants to the “late, great Hannibal Lecter” — sometimes even turning them into recurring bits.

Tellingly, these Bobita digressions are presented in gaudy color, a break from the bleakness that surrounds Angela.

I admired the drunkenness of the prose, the digressions and exaltation, the way Dostoevsky wrote as if each page would be his last.

On the surface, he’s spoofing practical guides (“How to cook the perfect risotto” is the title of one episode), but that’s merely a framework for a multitude of digressions anchored in scenes of New York street life.

The author labels these interludes “digressions,” and is well aware of how annoying they come to be.

There aren’t any digressions or repetitions.

After several digressions of thought he decides to visit Mina Purefoy at the hospital.

It is free from useless digressions.

Sprat regarded "fine speaking" as a disease, and thought that a proper style should "reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style" and instead "return back to a primitive purity and shortness" (History of the Royal Society, 1667).

The detail of his speech borders on the pedantic, a common mark of all his extant works and he goes into long digressions on related matters.

The podcasts specifically captured the creative process that goes into the creation of a Penny Arcade comic, usually starting with a perusal of recent gaming news, with conversational tangents and digressions to follow.

Wagner's frequent interruptions and digressions made rehearsals a very long-winded affair.