excursus

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Older readers, however, may feel like Gandalf the Grey when encountering words such as “anyways,” or an excursus into the joys of snail mail.

From Washington Post

There are references to Twitter trolls, a gloss on Putin and dezinformatsiya, and a brief excursus on Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism.

From New York Times

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

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

The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram.

From The New Yorker