Sentence examples for digressive from inspiring English sources

The commentary is a large and digressive work, including a long preface, a verse-by-verse commentary, and several digressions, in which Ibn Tibbon introduces a philosophical subject or explains a related verse in Genesis, Jeremiah, Psalms, Proverbs, or the Song of Songs.

The Telegraph man even managed to get in another digressive swipe, bringing up again the first night of Cause Celebre, starring Anne-Marie Duff, when the Independent's "old timer" slept all the way through the performance.

Even when Joyce goes down (yet another) digressive rabbit hole, you love being along for the ride.

His poems are endlessly digressive and there are often echoes of other poets in his writings, though these always come lightly at the reader, as though they were scents on the breeze.Lowell wrote in strict formal measures; some of his last books consisted of entire sequences of sonnets.

Alive with his magpie-like intelligence, punctuated by humorous asides and digressive interludes, they are as much a running commentary on the practices and preoccupations of a poet at the height of his own creative powers as they are an exposition of the works of another.

An admirer of "Tristram Shandy", Lawrence Sterne's digressive 18th-century masterpiece, Mr Bradbury adopts many of its shaggy-dog characteristics.

But Mr Critchley's snippets are too short or digressive for sustained reflection and argument.He nags at 20th-century English-speaking philosophers for approaching death obliquely, although he has earlier cited with apparent approval La Rochefoucauld's remark that you cannot stare at death or the sun directly.

Penguin/Allen Lane; £20Hiding in this long-winded and digressive book are some important thoughts about the changing nature of warfare and the state.