Sentence examples for major digression from from inspiring English sources

In our earlier writing, we conceptualised a critical juncture as requiring the presence of at least three key elements: political upheaval, a major digression from previous policy and lasting impact (Logan et al. 2013).

Yet everybody knows that there is truth in what I'm saying: Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time.

There had been one minor digression from this carefully plotted course--the part of Rosalind in a high school production of "As You Like It".

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.

Anyway, that's a digression from a digression, which is good going for paragraph one.

Les Misérables begins with a digression from a digression (thus resembling Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, which a few years earlier had begun with a digression, too).

It is not a digression from the rigorous training they've received, he says.

And the story, though a digression from the present purpose, was well worth the telling.

One of the pleasures that they offer is of digression from a central narrative.

The only real digression from protocol came from Dorothy, when she refused to return to a shelter.

The hard fact of it was that ornithopters, machines with flapping wings, were a digression from the path that led to the airplane".