Sentence examples for Such digression from inspiring English sources

"The birds are either capable of tolerating each other for many years, or they aren't," she writes about seagulls during one such digression.

The allegory itself was of little importance to him; the famous "Confession" of Nature (one of the characters in the poem) digressed from the narrative for some 3,500 verses, yet it was such digressions that secured the poem's reputation.

For Eliot, such digressions helped lend the mystery an "intangible human element".

Such digressions make "Red Line" a tantalizing sketchbook of musical doodling and sonic landscapes.

Such digressions amused the rapt crowd, which would have scorned such bar-band style elaborations from a less respected source.

Things That Are has very deliberately lost the plot; it is a book made up entirely of such digressions.

Kozol says that in the past he would skip such digressions, but "now it seems to be the moments of digression I remember with most interest later on".

Such digressions and asides were so enthusiastically used in the 18th century that one satirist wrote a mock dissertation consisting entirely of footnotes.

By the time of the last Collected in 1975, such "digressions" accounted for around two-thirds of the poetry he published between 1916 and 1960.

But such digressions are only minor irritations compared with the many disconnected detours the book takes through the author's holidays with his daughter and his experiences as an amateur bullfighter.

Finding a concealed geometry behind such apparent digressions is one of the main pleasures for hardcore Pynchon fans, but for me, even at 23 and with time on my hands, there were wacky, lurching chapters I could not quite be bothered to work out.