Sentence examples for that digression from inspiring English sources

"Crazy, Stupid, Love" takes its time, understanding that digression can be more important, and more satisfying, than relentless forward momentum.

I often quote the line from Laurence Sterne that "digression is the sunshine of narrative".

That digression led naturally to Apollonius of Tyana, Hannibal, the Punic Wars, the fact that when you go to Tunisia it's mainly Roman rather than Carthaginian ruins that you see, and how that landscape invariably evokes Federico Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria".

But let's get back to that digression.

Regrettable as that digression was, it might have been worth it had we learned anything from it; but we did not.

With that digression aside, The Huffington Post and parent company AOL have a joint exclusive clip from "Smurfs: The Lost Village," in which the little blue critters try to find an uncharted land before the evil wizard Gargamel does.

Bancroft complained that "digressions multiply and go nowhere", and that even the restaurant menus, though interesting, are historically dubious".

It was full of digressions; there were digressions that led to other digressions, and there were digressions within digressions.

He confessed that the digression was irrelevant but was nevertheless his personal favorite.

Less dismissively, McDowell 1976: 174 suggests that the Digression serves "a purpose which, in a modern book, might be served by footnotes or an appendix".

These objectives are 'gross' expansion targets which do not form an upper limit but mean that the digression of the feed-in tariffs is more dynamic if more biomass plants are installed than foreseen.