Sentence examples for in a digression from inspiring English sources

At one point, in a digression on theatregoing in New York, Bernhard wanders onto the subject of current Broadway shows.

In a digression on Richard Gere and "American Gigolo," his repetitions, including multiple admiring references to Gere's "beauty" and "blankness," feel less like conscious minimalism than bad editing.

Or, as he suggested later in a digression on poverty in India, go through life with the indignity of not having a toilet.

Francis Ford Coppola described Trump as a "really practical person", in a digression chiefly notable for the revelation that the pair had been at the same military school.

The trouble is that Serge's praise for the Bolsheviks is often embedded in a digression or implicitly contradicts other statements: it was an issue on which he was obviously in two minds.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum did appear familiar with the self-employment tax, but lost himself in a digression over its history, and never said whether he would support halving it.

Mr. Sebald -- who was born in Germany in 1944, and who has taught at the University of East Anglia in England since 1970 -- uses the same anomalous technique in this volume as he has in his last three books, combining fiction, reportage, photographs and travel writing in a digression-filled narrative that has the resonant texture of a memoir.

Virtual reality's inherent grandeur is invention in story; a digression of theatre, not onscreen, but within screen.

The dictionary-definition samplers are actually, in this way, a digression from the other major project that Parker has been working on – in response to a request from the British Library to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta on 15 June this year.

It's typical of him, too, that the most stirring bit of swashbuckling in this whole rambunctious novel should occur in what is essentially a digression.

Now, let us retain that active image in the theatrically receptive corner of our minds, with individual variations, while we make a digression in response to a familiar, easily anticipated political argument.