Sentence examples for long aside from inspiring English sources

A question about his wedding date is answered with a long aside about the Zapatistas, the Mexican rebels who stormed cities and communities in the Chiapas region in an overthrow attempt on Jan . 1 , 1994

While the reference to the world's "spaghettilike structure" attracted some attention from readers in Cairo, more puzzling still was the question of what, exactly, Mr. Morsi intended to say about his role in international diplomacy with his long aside about the 1960s science-fiction fantasy in which apes evolved from man.

A. J. Jacobs, the humorist and the author of the new book "Drop Dead Healthy," said the worst wedding toast he ever heard was from a best man who spoke about the bridegroom for a minute, then went into a long aside about the history of groceries on the Lower East Side and how he once had his photo taken on the lap of Mr. Gristedes.

Our tattoo career didn't last long, aside from writing "You take care of the tattoo, I'll take care of the business" on our friend's arse.

In discussing "Inception," Mr. Nolan occasionally became bogged down in long asides as he explained the intricate rules he devised for its dream world.

Long asides on his own as yet unfulfilled wishes (for a threesome, for more literary accolades) will perhaps test the indulgence of even loyal fans.

But with those assets, Mr. Snyder said, came a stream of requests from the studio to change small but crucial details: Did the film have to interrupt its story with long asides about the origins of Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan?

The same goes for Chowder's snap judgments on figures like Ezra Pound ("a blustering bigot — a humorless jokester — a talentless pasticheur — a confidence man") and Billy Collins ("Charming chirping crack whore"), as well as for his long asides on the difficult lives of Algernon Swinburne, Sara Teasdale, Vachel Lindsay and Louise Bogan.

("The wine-lover alone can discern the body and the bouquet, the alcohol content and the fruitiness, and all these nuances intermingled, where the uninitiated can only make a rough guess at whether it is a Burgundy or a Bordeaux," Bazin wrote before long asides about The Naked Spur and The Man from Laramie).

The long relationship aside, it seems that much about dolphins' senses and communication remains mysterious.

India has long set aside 22.5percentt of college seats to such students.