Amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A digressive allusion to the day of the week. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"" Forgive me while I go into digressive madness, '' he says. From Wordnik.com. [King Of The Canon] Reference
He pushes the edge, with his digressive and voluminous style. From Wordnik.com. [Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You] Reference
Their speech is vague and digressive; their dress is eccentric. From Wordnik.com. [Is Everybody Crazy?] Reference
In the right hands, the meditative, digressive style can work well. From Wordnik.com. [Heartbreak by Craig Raine] Reference
Guest knows how way leads on to way — how digressive life itself can be. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times: Poetry Chronicle] Reference
His speech is so wonderfully digressive and complicated that it reeks of Homer. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
"Cohen mines a wealth of family history in this funny, angry, digressive memoir.". From Wordnik.com. [Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen: Book summary] Reference
You just have to be incredibly patient with my digressive yammering to get to it. From Wordnik.com. [Toast:] Reference
It was almost twice as long and had a lot of what I think of as digressive material. From Wordnik.com. [The Writing Obsession] Reference
In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, — and at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
The work is episodical and digressive, but in a more extensive way than Shandy; the episodes in. 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
Topics like the self-testing of blood-sugar levels by diabetics, for instance, seem digressive. From Wordnik.com. [Help, I Need Somebody] Reference
Even before the fatwa, he was easily distracted, compulsively digressive, and always in a hurry. From Wordnik.com. [Almost Shaped] Reference
That sort of allusive, digressive style is extremely hard to do without becoming fey or annoying. From Wordnik.com. [Why your favorite author's like pesto] Reference
It can disorient at times, but the associative or digressive approach is the right one for the task. From Wordnik.com. [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference
But we do have some digressive ones in which Ophelia and the panda go to the moon, for example. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Crocodile] Reference
Each time, Armitage passed on the information as digressive chitchat to a prominent Washington reporter. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: How Is Richard Armitage's Story Dishonest? Let's Count the Many Ways] Reference
Better that, quoth I, than dissipating the mind on such digressive and misleading quibbles as he raised. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
It certainly is what my mother used to call a shaggy-dog story, digressive to a sometimes irritating degree. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Nouveau Riche] Reference
The investigation seemed absurdly digressive, considering the many vital projects currently on his calendar. From Wordnik.com. [Garden of Beasts]
It's a long digressive tale that begins with the birth of the title character -- and pretty much ends there. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram Shandy] Reference
ELM: Peter, I very much liked "The Lost" too, though its narrative style was a touch to digressive for my taste. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: "And How Was The Weather In Łodź?"] Reference
I'm thinking out loud, and my thought processes are over-focused, repetitive, and digressive (if that's a word). From Wordnik.com. [Catch all, Part 1] Reference
These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Descriptions of materials are often incomplete, sketchy in comparison to the rest of the contents, and digressive. 7. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Dante labels his Commedia “digressive,” while typically the medieval commentator ringed his text with marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The discussion is digressive and overly credulous of literary and semi-historical sources, while scanting archeology. From Wordnik.com. [Return to the Hyatt] Reference
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