digression
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Now, a brief digression, because I feel strongly about this.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026
The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
But the book’s circuitous, meandering structure, including a major digression about one of Siegfried’s sisters, tests the reader’s patience.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025
Woodward concludes the digression: “I will never forget the intensity of his worry.”
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2024
He showed up as promised, and delivered his panegyric—but in the course of it, he included a decorative digression, as might have been quite normal practice, in praise of the twin demigods Castor and Pollux.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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