The phrase "minute digression" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It refers to a brief or minor detour from the main subject or topic of discussion. Example: "The speaker went on a minute digression about her trip to Europe before returning to the main topic of the conference."
It took Horner's field crew three summers to dig it out, and when they broke the bone open a black, gooey substance trickled out — a discovery that led Myhrvold and his friend Lowell Wood on a twenty-minute digression at dinner one night about how, given enough goo and a sufficient number of chicken embryos, they could "make another one".
It took Horner's field crew three summers to dig it out, and when they broke the bone open a black, gooey substance trickled out a discovery that led Myhrvold and his friend Lowell Wood on a twenty-minute digression at dinner one night about how, given enough goo and a sufficient number of chicken embryos, they could "make another one".
"Therefore, in the end, no digression can digress from the subject: in Sterne's novel, digression is impossible".
But I digress (from my digression).
About twenty minutes in, after a noisy and deconstructive digression, those chords return, calming and steadying, reminding you of the trip you're on.
There is much digression and a bit of pontificating.
Speaking on the eve of the film's London premiere, Bose launches into a five-minute discourse, rich in digressions and asides.
It returned a minute or two later, followed by more hard braking and a digression by Mr. Swig on the need to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of a vehicle in its ninth decade.
Though the home side gradually settled, the first half was so riddled with digression and repetition that it resembled a deliberately dire game of Just a Minute.
Mr. Kerry answered most questions, at least eventually, and often after an adventurous digression (a request to name his domestic policy advisers produced a five-minute discussion of his health care plan).
(Dargis) * 'TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY' (R, 91 minutes) Michael Winterbottom both confirms and refutes the assumption that Laurence Sterne's 18th-century masterpiece of digression could never be made into a movie by making a movie about the making of such a movie.
