"Therefore, in the end, no digression can digress from the subject: in Sterne's novel, digression is impossible".
Soon I had established a private ideal of how phones ought to be arranged, any digression from which -- a Princess phone, say, in a kitchen -- caused me real distress.
Anyway, that's a digression from a digression, which is good going for paragraph one.
The only real digression from protocol came from Dorothy, when she refused to return to a shelter.
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).
His remarks, a long, impassioned digression from his usual stump speech, were not planned, catching even his aides off guard.
Her first digression from abstraction came in 1986, when she choreographed and danced in Lina Wertmüller's production of "Carmen".
In an apparent digression from his prepared remarks, he defended his son against the criticisms of protesters outside the convention.
The way Campbell tells it, however, the past 30 years were but a digression from his first and real love: ventriloquism.
The hard fact of it was that ornithopters, machines with flapping wings, were a digression from the path that led to the airplane".
