Sentence examples for in a digressive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rubalcaba, one of the greatest virtuosos of jazz piano at the moment, played in a digressive outpouring.

He spoke in a digressive, choked rasp often while the audience was still clapping or hooting, so as if to himself with various hats pulled low over his eyes.

It is phrases like these that led a writer for New York magazine to describe the principles as "written in a digressive, self-serious style that reads as if Ayn Rand and Deepak Chopra had collaborated on a line of fortune cookies".

Her discussion of the mechanical chess player suffers by comparison with Tom Standage's more detailed account of the automaton in a recently published book; here, and again in a digressive and unoriginal analysis of a fairly obscure work by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, it is reasonable to assume that a short work required a little extra padding to bring it up a marketable size.

According to Mazzeo, Montgomery's biographies, which draw a picture of the subject's character and incorporate autobiographical material, are written in a "digressive though not unengaging manner".

Contributor David Warfield writes about the local film scene in a digressive and idiosyncratic style that seeks to inform filmmakers, as well as film consumers.

What's in a Surname? is in part a social history of surnames in general, in part a digressive meditation on their meanings (in local politics, in social hierarchy, in fiction), and in part a history of the people who have been interested in them – beginning with William Camden, the 16th-century researcher "whose findings on surnames would not be greatly enhanced for centuries afterwards".

Bill Bryson invites us in for a digressive ramble through the history of domestic life.

Marías avoids a straightforward delivery in favor of a digressive narrative that moves back and forth in time.

Alain Ronce-Grillet once said that Hamlet would not be a great play if it were written today: in other words, a digressive five-act verse-drama about a putative revenge killing would seem a quaint throwback if produced by a living writer.

Directed by Robert Kane Pappas 1 hour 35 minutes; not rated "To Age or Not to Age," Robert Kane Pappas's documentary about scientific experiments in life extension, makes a digressive, disorganized hash of a fascinating topic.