Sentence examples for detailed digression from inspiring English sources

This was clear in her detailed digression about the Halloween costumes she has worn through the years.

When the song's narrator takes refuge in an empty charcoal burner's hut in the song "Rast" ("Rest"), Mr. Bostridge goes into a detailed digression about charcoal, telling us the temperatures at which wood and charcoal burn and reproducing a chart showing the shift in power sources used in England from 1561 to 1859.

We agree that understanding the salient differences among the various study conditions is important, but we feel that a detailed digression on these issues in our own manuscript would (1) require too much space and (2) detract from our main point, which is the presentation of a general framework for gating.

Marta led with passion - it was like a chat with a clever lecturer, rich in detail, digression and sharp analyses.

There are lengthy digressions in which he aired his remarkably detailed knowledge of legal procedures, financial manipulations, or industrial processes, but at its best his style is remarkably graphic, fast-moving and tersely epigrammatic but richly studded with sarcasm, wit, and psychological observation.

Analyzing the proper composition of the dish, including a thoughtful digression about whether potatoes belong in the pan (her family likes them but they are probably not traditional), Sonia methodically detailed the laborious salting, frying, draining, whisking, straining and baking that was required.

Rather, imagination is displayed in nonfictional prose in the fanciful invention of decorative details, in digressions practiced as an art and assuming a character of pleasant nonchalance, in establishing a familiar contact with the reader through wit and humour.

Your main message will just get lost in a tangled thicket of unnecessary details and digressions.

For it does not proceed by narrative so much as digression, detail, sudden glimpse and brief dialogue.

Hugo's form, predicated on length, on digression and detail, is a deliberate accretion of overlapping examples: his scenes are all variations on the same theme.

But I digress (from my digression).