Sentence examples for digression what from inspiring English sources

(Digression: What is it about remarkable records being broken this year only three years after they were set?

Thus the book is one long digression — exactly what Marozzi rightly considers Herodotus' "Histories" themselves.

This may seem like a digression, but digressions are just what make a walk in the woods interesting.

The Burley Cross residents also share a dangerous weakness for digression, deferral and what one letter-writer calls the "gratuitous outpouring of hysterical waffle".

Thus the Digression shows us what is ethically at stake in the often abstruse debates found elsewhere in the Theaetetus.

"He felt like a digression that had forgotten from what it digressed" is a typical utterance here.

For example, in the middle of the first story the narrator asks 'Do you know what a digression is?' then takes up a paragraph explaining the answer.

In one of her zany digressions, Luella asks Felicity what plays she has seen.

What made "Digressions" a relevant footnote to television history was less its inherent wit than that Rooney's near-invisible accomplice was a one-time Borscht Belt actor named Palmer Williams.

Motherhood is becoming a mid-life digression.We are seeing what Ron Lestaeghe, a Belgian demographer, calls the "second demographic transition".

The presence of the latter shouldn't put the less committed reader off: Abdurraqib is blessed with a keen eye for a particularly telling fact, and what seems like digression invariably turns out to make a wider point about music or culture.