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

This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard

Mrs. Memorall interjected, with a parenthetic glance at the mirror.

From The Greater Inclination by Wharton, Edith

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