Sentence examples for a digression on from inspiring English sources
Transferring the September 11th attacks to Argentina is one example; a digression on pandas is another.
In stump speeches back then, he could wander from point to point with little coherent theme or narrative, bouncing, say, from a digression on legislative procedure to one on constitutional analysis, and taking plenty of time to do it.
At one point, in a digression on theatregoing in New York, Bernhard wanders onto the subject of current Broadway shows.
His Iceland story, for example, found space for a digression on elves.
Or, as he suggested later in a digression on poverty in India, go through life with the indignity of not having a toilet.
Like "Malkovich," it's perceptive and funny, and some of its whims — a digression on Darwin, Charlie's fuming tirades — are blithely original.
But once again, he offers a digression, this one on coin-tossing, and concludes, weakly, "I do not by any means defend insider trading and stock manipulation, which are wrong for many other reasons, but I do suggest that they are, in a sense, simply two among many unpredictable factors affecting the price of a stock".
He introduces a lengthy digression on "a character without a name" whose fetish is retarded women.
In a fitting digression on a subject he well understands from writing "The Powers That Be," his book on the media barons, Halberstam illustrates how the Clinton administration was abetted by the television networks in its hear-no-evil, see-no-evil foreign policy.
There were memorable touches, as well: paeans to patriotism that were in the spirit of an evening heavy on national security; a lovely digression on the meaning of freedom that sought to cast it as practically indistinguishable from liberalism; and Obama's own take on "you didn't build that" – "you did that".
We could go off on a whole digression on the notion in the Middle Ages that a woman could come closer to God because she was weak, degraded, quick to bleed, thus resembling the wounded, dying Christ.
