excursus
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Especially trying is Book Six’s 400-plus page excursus into Hitler and the etiology of the Third Reich.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Following an excursus into the world of poststructuralist theory at Yale and in Paris, he switched his field to political science and received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s government department.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
There are graph-like illustrations, circles, arrows, number lines, maps and even an irrelevant excursus about an outmoded text editor called Kedit.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
At the start of the novel “A Heart So White,” from 1992, the mysterious suicide of a newlywed is followed by an excursus on the nature of marital intimacy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2016
The construction is almost as severe; and the movement is unbroken from beginning to end, without excursus or digression.
From The Nabob, Volume 1 by George Burnham Ives
His process involves a series of sketches, long textual excursuses and model-making with his team.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020
BECKER, W. A.—Gallus: or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus; with notes and excursuses illustrative of the manners and customs of the Romans.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
An edition covering the period from Solon to 403, with new notes and excursuses, was published by J. M. Mitchell and M. O. B. Caspari in 1907.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
His commentaries, and especially some of the longer excursuses, contain numerous contributions to the philosophy of religion.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
M. Cosquin in his Contes populaires de Lorraine, the storehouse of "storiology," has elaborate excursuses in this class of tales attached to his Nos. x. and xx.
From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various
