digression

How To Use digression In A Sentence

• We get an extended mental digression from him on how to emotionally distance oneself from crying people.
• This prompts a digression, as I recall that I once threw a party at a flat I'd recently taken possession of - but before the arrival of my furniture.
• The "swoops, the spirals, the digressions and the reiterations" so characteristic of oral narrative are all there in the novel.
• Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches.
• Every one of these embarrassing digressions from a pure focus on gun rights drives away more and more people who don’t agree with the position being pandered to. The Volokh Conspiracy » NRA Convention report
• What lifted the book above the level of conventional historical fiction were its regular metafictional digressions. The Times Literary Supplement
• The book is so full of events, meanderings, digressions, legends, conversations, and adventures, that a patient reader will never find his interest exhausted.
• And feel free to move this post to the "Open Thread", as it is quite a digression from the original topic. A mammalian fossil takes wing
• This leads King into an extended digression on Michelangelo's use of nudity, including the evidence that the artist had studied dissected corpses in great detail.
• Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.