Digressions

I think that last sentence with its circumlocutions and three parenthetical digressions is indicative of my distracted or distractible state of mind ... ❋ Desayunoencama (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I do agree that the digressions were a lot of fun – there must be a way to make those digressions literary somehow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Actually, this blog post should probably have been called digressions, since I seem to have written next to nothing about bluffing. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2009)

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. ❋ T. W. Lumb (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (1913)

Oh, I remember, at chapel: it must be acknowledged my digressions are a little Pindaric. ❋ Unknown (1763)

However, regarding the judicial decision to look away from the "digressions" of Mr. Mosley, squeaky clean standards should be imposed with the same rigor as within a family. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yet whether or not Douglas's "digressions" are permissible, such renderings as he illustrates involve no more latitude than is sanctioned by the schoolboy's Latin Grammar. ❋ Flora Ross Amos (N/A)

Attempting to explain it as one continuous narrative from beginning to end, they have been compelled to consider numerous passages as "digressions," "parentheses," or "episodes," etc. ❋ Unknown (1913)

(And where the narrative slows to a crawl for tedious, mostly subtitled digressions on the intricacies of partisan politics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In its crowd-pleasing style of separating weighty chapters with brief "digressions," and its topicality in focusing on an issue that affects virtually everyone living in the virtual world, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another option is to come out of the party and continue the fight against the Lavalin scam and the 'digressions' of the party from the strictly Left-wing path. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* It was long, well thought out and you used the cool lengthy italicized "digressions" masterfully. ❋ Devil_fingers (2008)

Tarantino has lifted quite a few of Truffaut's tropes from Shoot the Piano Player (such as digressions in the narrative to develop supporting characters through absurd but observantly funny dialogue or action), but gone on to put his own personal stamp on it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"[Elephants] are the only animals that can't jump... but [I digress]. Back to [Physics]..." ❋ Bertha (2003)

My [girlfiend] [jerked] me off so bad that I digressed [all over her face]. ❋ Ozzy4_ever (2011)

[I'm not sure] what [digressing] even means... It's because you're [fucking stupid]. ❋ The Digressor (2019)

They were having a rollicking discussion when he suddenly veered off topic. This was made all the more obvious by [scooting] his chair over just a tish ([titch], [skosh], trifle) and announcing that he was now inside the Circle of Digression. ❋ Mcveym+mitchellc (2011)

Man1: [Yes yes] I know I'm a [slacker] and an asshole, but I digress. We need to come up with a plan now. ([bad example] sorry) George was doing so well with getting his grades up but he's digressed into that bad behavior of drinking and partying all night and not doing any work. ❋ Cloudsgrl (2010)

I want to see some [Pokemon] game glitches. I'll check YouTube. (One hour [passes]) Why am I listening to "[You Spin Me Round] (Like a Record)"? YouTube digression, I guess. ❋ Nikki Delfino (2011)

They were having a rollicking discussion when he suddenly veered off topic. He made this all the more obvious by [scooting] his chair over just a [titch] and announcing that he was stepping into The Circle of Digression. Sometimes referred to by [insiders] as the COD. ❋ Mcveym+mitchellc (2011)

[I beg to digress], [mate]! ❋ PLASMAchicken (2021)

[Ha], [you suck]! [Ah, but i digress, i really do]. ❋ El_Scorcho (2003)

While many rightly complain about [voter suppression], the loss of an election may be more attributed to [voter digression], in the form of voter abstinence or the [siphoning] off of votes by fringe candidates. Voters often do not realize they are in effect denying those most closely aligned with their political views the right to vote, since voting is a collective process that can only be won by a majority or plurality. ❋ Mlhiss (2020)