digression

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Now, a brief digression, because I feel strongly about this.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026

That jarring digression will gradually morph into a crucial subplot, allowing Mendonça Filho to build a thematic bridge between then and now.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

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

In the telescope’s view, there’s something more subtle but no less staggering lurking, too, which can best be introduced via a slight sky-watching digression.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

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