Sentence examples for an excursus from inspiring English sources

Then again, how can one resist a book that offers both an excursus on Thomas Carlyle's prose and a paean to the "gloppy glory" of beef stew?

At the start of the novel "A Heart So White," from 1992, the mysterious suicide of a newlywed is followed by an excursus on the nature of marital intimacy.

After an excursus about how eugenics was an unsavoury offshoot of Malthus's theory, Pearce explores trends in population growth around the world, highlighting the falling birth rates in China, Australia, South Africa and most of Europe (on present trends, by 2100 Germany will have fewer natives than Berlin has today) and providing evidence that developing countries are following suit.

The Court concedes as much, ante, at 9, 12 17, yet it inexplicably interrupts its analysis with a recitation of the parties' arguments concerning, and an excursus on the complexity and consequences of answering, that admittedly irrelevant threshold question, ante, at 9 12.

The fourth in a series of five catalogues, this volume's sections have a more extensive treatment, featuring imperial costume and regalia, their importance in coin designs; the coordination, control, and methods of coin production; and an excursus on the main issues of the years around 1204.

An example is "the scholars who [base their claims upon] proofs" (hakhmei ha-ra'ayot), which is found in an excursus upon psychology, which we shall scrutinize below.

So she makes Saltaire, near Bradford – less a village than a little Venice in yellow stone – the pretext for an interesting excursus on how this industrial utopia exemplified the way working-class women moved out of the factory in the middle of the 19th century and into the home, becoming poorer cousins of the bourgeois "Angel of the House".

It would have been an appropriate excursus to amnesty.

Is this book, written hectically and in the first person as though spoken by the poet himself, an autobiographical excursus or not?

"On the Missionary Trail" uses their report, finally published in 1840, for an armchair excursus through the lesser byways of Western expansion.

His chapter on the "pornographic ideal" also contains an interesting excursus on the great art collections taking shape at the time, one of which, belonging to the Earl of Arundel, included drawings by Giulio, though apparently not the ones reproduced and studied in this book, for the interests of the earl and his lady lay elsewhere.