Sentence examples for a large digression from inspiring English sources

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Lucretius's second book deals mostly with atomic motion and compounds, with a large digression inspired by the diversity of life the Earth supports, and so seems to be a book about life.

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The commentary is a large and digressive work, including a long preface, a verse-by-verse commentary, and several digressions, in which Ibn Tibbon introduces a philosophical subject or explains a related verse in Genesis, Jeremiah, Psalms, Proverbs, or the Song of Songs.

(A brief digression on the subject of iguanas Last year, Florida cops pulled over a car that was apparently being driven by a large green and orange iguana. They found an extremely drunken man beneath the lizard. Lantigua told me that it was a local variation on DUI&151Driving Under the Iguana).

I'll come back to that, but first a bit of a digression.

Poised for action at a grand piano, he disrupted an expectant stillness with a turbulent digression.

Anyway, that's a digression from a digression, which is good going for paragraph one.

Les Misérables begins with a digression from a digression (thus resembling Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, which a few years earlier had begun with a digression, too).

Before proceeding further, we make a digression to an auxiliary consideration.

A quick digression.

Allow me a little digression.

This deference hypersensitivity is a pitiful digression.

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