Mr. Parnham has incurred the wrath of Judge Carol G. Davies, who has sustained dozens of objections from prosecutors for asking what they considered meandering, irrelevant and digressive questions.
He has an earthy streak and a digressive manner of thought, but he issues orders commandingly.
Bill Bryson invites us in for a digressive ramble through the history of domestic life.
"I caught so much shit," he told me, during a digressive moment in our Sinatra interview.
Marías avoids a straightforward delivery in favor of a digressive narrative that moves back and forth in time.
Mr. Rubalcaba, one of the greatest virtuosos of jazz piano at the moment, played in a digressive outpouring.
The principal source of the plot was a digressive episode in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (Part I, 1605), which was translated into English by Richard Shelton in 1612.
He joins metaphors for his twin subjects more easily than he does the subjects themselves; but we have a digressive good time watching him try.
In different regions, the shadow price of carbon dioxide presents a digressive tendency among eastern, central, and western areas, with divergent gaps between and within areas.
In Hiroshima he wrote his first novel, inspired by The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a digressive 11th-century diary by a lady-in-waiting at the court.
Five years ago, I relegated my own dismissal of Piketty's work to a digressive footnote at the end of Chapter 12 of my history of supply-side economics, Econoclasts.
