digressive
Example Sentences
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Wildly digressive, buzzing with literary allusions and telling its story as a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, the book has some of the mad, restless energy of Sellers himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
During our digressive conversation, I learn, not surprisingly, that pretty much anybody who’s anybody resides in Clooney’s phone contact list.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 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
However, it appears that the 79-year-old president mixed up the two men when telling one of his digressive stories, this time about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025
A rule which, strictly speaking, is not outraged by the digressive exclamations of Camo�ns.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
