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).
It is not a digression from the rigorous training they've received, he says.
And the story, though a digression from the present purpose, was well worth the telling.
One of the pleasures that they offer is of digression from a central narrative.
The only real digression from protocol came from Dorothy, when she refused to return to a shelter.
The hard fact of it was that ornithopters, machines with flapping wings, were a digression from the path that led to the airplane".
But the most haunting moment came with a digression from the musical depiction of emotions, or affects, to the depiction of objects and events.
"My whole life since," the narrator says, "has merely been a digression from those days, which now hang over me like a quarrel that will never be resolved".
This is not the average Cannes promotional interview, more a free-associating digression from someone who's not, strictly speaking, the average film-maker.
His remarks, a long, impassioned digression from his usual stump speech, were not planned, catching even his aides off guard.
