Sentence examples similar to a digressive remark from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Nocturnal Animals" is probably too much of a digressive art-house ensemble to hit voters' soft spots.

According to Mazzeo, Montgomery's biographies, which draw a picture of the subject's character and incorporate autobiographical material, are written in a "digressive though not unengaging manner".

In a ruminative, digressive way, he once remarked that he thought young writers were "taking longer to find out what kinds of writers they are," and he could think of no explanation.