parenthetic

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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."

From Time Magazine Archive

She had come back to another, which was one of her own; her own were so closely connected that Densher's were at best but parenthetic.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

He injured the melody also by casting into the middle of it, like stones into a clear water, rough parenthetic sounds to suit his parenthetic phrases.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Thus Sally in a parenthetic voice— "... and that she really isn't such a very great humbug after all!"

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend