Sentence examples for a major digression from inspiring English sources
In our earlier writing, we conceptualised a critical juncture as requiring the presence of at least three key elements: political upheaval, a major digression from previous policy and lasting impact (Logan et al. 2013).
Yet everybody knows that there is truth in what I'm saying: Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time.
You never know when a sub-plot or other digression will turn into a major theme of your story, or even spin off into a story of its own.
In his digression on the pentekontaetia his aim is to explain the growth of Athenian power, and such a treaty, and the fact that the Delian allies were not released from their obligations after it, would have marked a major step in the Athenian ascendancy.
I'll come back to that, but first a bit of a digression.
The dictionary-definition samplers are actually, in this way, a digression from the other major project that Parker has been working on – in response to a request from the British Library to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta on 15 June this year.
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.
