Sentence examples for there was a digression from inspiring English sources

Right, Jared?" There was a digression, in which he told the crowd what a nice young man Kushner was; he had a Harvard degree and he was in the real-estate business.

There was a another misinformed digression into the Northwestern union case during which Cowherd tried to claim that the likely no vote by the players means the players support Cowherd's position (uh, no, it doesn't).

There's a long digression about the Hapsburg prince Rudolf, whose suicide led to his cousin Ferdinand eventually inheriting the reins of the empire.

There's a funny digression about trying out as a contestant in the pilot of an ill-conceived reality show called "Any Idiot Can Write a Book".

There is a long digression on Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine, the first mechanical computer, as if this were a clue to the operation of the Turk.

There is a pointless digression about the Kama Sutra and a strange speculation about a meeting that can never have taken place.

There is a long digression about nearby Netley Abbey, a medieval ruin long prized by local aesthetes for its dripping atmospheres (you sense the melodramatic Hoare of earlier books reasserting himself).

Suddenly Eeyore becomes Christopher Robin Selff begins speaking twice as fast and three times as intelligently, and there is a nice digression on the mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châletet, Voltaire's collaborator and lover, who introduced the ideas of Isaac Newton to a somewhat reluctant France with her translation of his Principia.

There is a consistent digression from the expected position of the band gap by 20 nm, in the same direction as in the Figs. 3 and 4. Having more stacks results in stronger reflectivity and a slight narrowing of the bandgap width.

But first, a quick digression... when I was a kid, there was a soft drink called "TEEM".

There are a few misfires, digressions and omissions in this collection.