A digression into irrelevant details. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Many novels contain what I call the digression-into-theme. From Wordnik.com. [The authority to comment] Reference
But all this is what they call a digression; it has nothing to do with the dragon's teeth I am now narrating. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
Warning: all this post is a digression from the topic!. From Wordnik.com. [Page 2] Reference
The reason for this historic digression is that Jordan has made an interesting discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Perfect timing] Reference
Particularly by that wee digression from the source text (the whole mother not dying thing). From Wordnik.com. [I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!] Reference
And feel free to move this post to the "Open Thread", as it is quite a digression from the original topic. From Wordnik.com. [A mammalian fossil takes wing] Reference
Whereas much literary fiction wallows in digression, here every scrap of information propels the story forward. From Wordnik.com. [Books in Brief] Reference
The digression is a lengthy one; but even now a further step must be taken. From Wordnik.com. ['Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers] Reference
I hope the reader will pardon this digression, which is not without interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
I like the idea of digression, escaping the portrait, even though it was the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Evening Class] Reference
This leads him into a tiresome digression, which is intended to explain the nature of contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
And, a repeatedly used tool of theirs is the art of "digression". From Wordnik.com. [How To Piss Away The Moral High Ground] Reference
Can it really be called a digression if you never regress?). From Wordnik.com. [Ask And Ye Shall Receive] Reference
Further, it matches to some degree the "digression" in the rondo-forms. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition] Reference
It appears I'm not capable of selecting "digression" instead of "ingression" in my spell-check. From Wordnik.com. [News: Main section | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This is a long digression, but it could not be avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Allow a bit of a digression for an analogy, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [Tom's Top SEMA Pick] Reference
But this is a digression -- let me bring to the wind again. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
But to return from this long digression of the early newspaper press of. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Before proceeding, it seems desirable to introduce an historical digression. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Surely the digression on noses which the author allows himself is suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But the galley of monotyped composition has been waiting during this digression. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
This observation tempts us into a digression, and we shall yield to the temptation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
One more point and then I will finish this rather long but very necessary digression. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
But -- after this rather foolish and wholly unnecessary digression -- to return to Lamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Surely! we reply; and though it will necessitate a digression, we touch upon the question. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
I rambled on from digression to digression without grasping the real humor of the author. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
“Das Komödienhaus” (pp. 185-210) to write a digression on “Walking behind a maid.”. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Any breaking down of this order indicates a mistake in the union, or a digression from duty. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The novel tells one story, without digression or sub-plot, for 500 pages? perhaps 150,000 words. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
Once more, "a truce to digression," let us see what the ancient cemetery of the Innocents was like. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
A digression on this subject, in order that the record may be made clear, will probably not be unwelcome. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
It was approaching this delectable land, then, that we left our young heroes, when making this digression. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
We may now continue our account of the fermentation which we were studying when we made this last digression. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Be not impatient, beloved reader; for this digression brings me naturally to the next thing we saw at Novgorod. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
But we will quit this digression, and speak of the man who occupied the chair, and who was very far from sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Constantinople by the Crusaders, was to favour us with a digression on the insolence of the postilions in Roumelia?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
This digression on Parseval airships has anticipated events somewhat, and a return must now be made to earlier days. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
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