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Discover LudwigThe phrase "any digression" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a deviation from the main topic or subject being discussed. Example: "The speaker was very clear and concise, avoiding any digressions in his presentation."
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Soon I had established a private ideal of how phones ought to be arranged, any digression from which -- a Princess phone, say, in a kitchen -- caused me real distress.
His frequent allusions to classical and Biblical myth, his learned excursions into British naval history decorate but do not divert the tale; like Faulkner at his most surging, he seems confident that the underlying story is simple and predetermined enough to survive any digression.
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Matching up across the width of the paper is controlled by cells that react to any lateral digressions as the paper moves along by controlling a lateral-shifting mechanism.
How can we fix this? —Martha, Buffalo, NY A. If you would, Martha, let me start with a digression that isn't intended to make any less of your situation: Difficulties with the in-laws!
But this is a digression.
The thought sets off a digression.
Anyway, that's a digression from a digression, which is good going for paragraph one.
After a digression about a washed-up but popular bullfighter, Hemingway writes: "Well none of that has anything to do with the story and I suppose you think there isn't any story anyway but it sort of moves along in time and anyway there is a lot of dope about high society in it and that is always interesting".
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).
At this point, we must make a digression.
So, a digression --.
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