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

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)

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

The most admirable discourses from the merely literary point of view on taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses, with some parenthetic reference to the matter in hand, are not criticism.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George