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digresses

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Third person singular of digress

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One quibble: Mr Vedral often digresses from the point at hand, so the overall effect tends to be a bit meandering.Mr Vedral's professional interests lie in quantum computing and quantum information science, which use the laws of quantum mechanics respectively to build powerful computers and render codes unbreakable.

Asked a straight question, Gilgun digresses in a manner that you might think evasive or defensive, were his detours not so eye-poppingly forthright.

During these minutes it is as if there is something she wants to say, but daren't, so that her conversation digresses and falters.

In longer conversations, he often redirects the topic away from himself, then energetically digresses.

He frequently digresses in order to visit the great landmarks of India's post-colonial history: the violence of Partition, in 1947, Communist insurgencies, drug- and gunrunning scandals, and the rise of religious extremism and terrorism.

Disease, physical and psychological, is a grim leitmotif of Secrest's book, which digresses often to describe times that were raddled with microbes and melancholy.

He digresses… After night club episode, our hero meets Jack Vanderbrook, Fiance of Emily, who is heir to millions.

To conceal his feelings he digresses on the breeding of bulls, then takes his leave, still feeling the humiliation of having been discarded by the murdered woman.

He digresses to tell about the emotions of the Purilians and they differ from us.

As comically surefooted as Snider is on his recordings, even he can't compete with his stage persona, where he digresses between songs, sometimes at great length, always with great humor.

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The allegory itself was of little importance to him; the famous "Confession" of Nature (one of the characters in the poem) digressed from the narrative for some 3,500 verses, yet it was such digressions that secured the poem's reputation.

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