digressive
Example Sentences
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The long, digressive rural idyll “NN” follows a sophisticated city dweller’s return to the village of his childhood country house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
But while the bloody rites of the original Euripides are at the heart of the tale, this version is so relentlessly digressive and irreverent that it plays more like parody than tragedy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Reporting on this impact is far more helpful than digressive debates over the exact meaning of the word "fascist."
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2025
It’s only the surface of a far weirder, digressive production whose obsession is not with the real world but what is underneath.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2024
Exasperating as Crabbe's style sometimes is, he seldom bores—never indeed except in his rare passages of digressive reflection.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
