Instead, Cruz launched into a prepared digression on the American soldiers captured and released by Iran before addressing the actual question—with another digression.
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This digression can be a creative pleasure for an audience.
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That might seem like a digression, but it really isn't.
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It's a master class in digression as a narrative device.
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A short, but necessary, digression on 38 Studios and Jen MacLean.
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How does this digression about microagressions fit into your larger point?
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I'd like to see more digression around those kinds of choices.
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Almost every object or locale in Bronze sparks a miniature flashback or digression.
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This historical digression, though interesting and well researched, seems shoehorned into the book.
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The logic of those conditions is clear, but not worth the digression here.
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It has been, at best, a tangent and, at worst, an unwanted digression.
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The article then goes off on a long digression about Trump's various business undertakings.
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ROBERTA SMITH In the middle of a digression about her boyfriend, Catherine Cohen burped.
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Trump's digression about the chocolate cake is what has received the most attention this morning.
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For those unacquainted with Perry's personal history and work, a brief digression may be helpful.
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He gave sometimes meandering answers to voters and reporters, occasionally cutting himself off mid-digression.
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These other topics are to some extent a digression from the main topic of cyberwarfare.
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Even a digression about the catacombs in an Italian monastery includes some Jell-O symbolism.
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This, however, was a digression into the fact that Bill befriended a billionaire real-estate mogul.
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The writing in "Once Upon a Time" has paragraphs of all sorts — digression, voice-over, description.
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Old photographs and a short digression into explorations by Ernest Shackleton and Frank Wild are wonderful.
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Virtual reality's inherent grandeur is invention in story; a digression of theatre, not onscreen, but within screen.
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It's worth a digression to note the similar elements to the victories of Presidents Trump and Erdoğan.
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Think of Bilal as the mysterious figure at the gate between neo-soul contemplation and jazz digression.
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This is a family memoir with many footnotes and a long digression on Thomas Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow.
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In the '90s, this makes way for a digression about President Clinton's strained relationship with the gay community.
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I know that might be a little bit of a digression, but I just thought it was neat.
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With Stevens recording a clutch of Christmas music every year for a decade, digression and repetition were inevitable.
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To make my point, I'll need to make a short but dense digression into information theory's humble beginnings.
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The Manual's lengthy digression on the lyrical content of Rick Astley's by now-classic single is well worth reading.
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Let me take a slight digression with another superhero team, the X-Men, to explain my broader concern here.
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But outside of his brief digression on collusion, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Manafort and Cohen barely seemed to register.
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Even minor characters are run through mazes of back story and digression that add little appreciable dimension to the plot.
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A subplot about butt augmentation is a bad misfire, both scolding and flippant; a digression into Jamie's marriage is dull.
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At one point, after a lengthy historical digression, he pulled himself up short: "I know I'm just filibustering," he said.
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He accepted my own interruptions of his monologues with good humor and often delight at the prospect of a new digression.
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That set off an unprompted 127-word digression into the kind of coverage he was getting from CNN, Fox News, and NBC.
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But part of the magic in the music is that its predetermined structures give way, unpredictably, to various sorts of spontaneous digression.
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A digression: There was some speculation in the comments about Gennadi and Sofia being K.G.B. plants, faking their defections to gain access.
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Nilay Patel: That's really the answer I'm hoping for here, is a long digression on Annie Leibovitz yelling at the Pixel team.
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When Soper announces that "the meaning of music-making is obvious to everyone," the trio interrupts her with a trembling, misterioso digression.
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Like Ashbery's poetry, digression and whimsy are surface readings of a deeply felt exploration, a chance-taking and a wrestling with larger entropy.
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Exhibit A: His speech included both instructions on how to rebel against one's parents, as well as a lengthy digression on the Magna Carta.
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Whether a progression or digression, this year's Material is tremendously different from last year's, which featured standard distribution and more space to spread out.
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Among the most interesting tangents is the recurrent digression into Cooper's prominence among Black communities, and the preponderance of his ideas in hip-hop.
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The reporter took a remarkably long digression to describe the 'wench' of a doctor who, he noted, was undoubtedly at fault for McCoy's death.
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One essay here is titled "The Point of Tangency: On Digression," and one way to describe this collection is as a series of tangents.
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In February, recounting a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump raised eyebrows with a digression on the appearance of the Chinese president's aides.
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A digression early in "The Irishman" depicts the headline-grabbing slaying of the gangster Albert Anastasia in a New York hotel barbershop in 1957.
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When the keyboardist Kris Bowers performed his song "#TheProtestor" in Harlem two years ago, it featured a bracing topical digression by the vocalist Chris Turner.
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There's even a lengthy digression for the tale of Martin's previous, fateful posting aboard the Ill Wind, whose namers clearly never heard of an omen.
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Just when lessons from the past seem to be building toward a point about ISIS or globalization, he layers on another digression about Dostoyevsky or Ataturk.
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"I'll use the paper pictures from here on, because I just have given it my best shot," Belichick added after a lengthy digression about the NFL's communications system.
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FIFA 2000 took the predominantly electronic slant of those versions and added a brief digression into pop, which in successive years would gradually gain more of a foothold.
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" She started off by saying, "Trump had his bodyguard take a dismissal letter, complete with a totally normal digression on how the president didn't collude with Russia, okay?!
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We think that we know, reading a novel, what a "digression" is—a swerve from the main action—because we think we know what the main action is.
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When he excuses yet another digression by saying that "so many of today's stories are and must be of this plural, sprawling kind", it sounds like special pleading.
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Andersen's penchant for scene-setting and digression can push the running time of some stories toward the one-hour mark ("The Little Mermaid") and beyond ("The Snow Queen").
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But the uranium digression, among countless other recent policy statements, demonstrates his bob-and-weave approach: the appearance of continued communication being more important than what's actually being said.
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The statement is pretty long (due to a digression in the middle in which Trump rambles about how awesome Trump University is and how no one should be suing it).
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The brief digression into being wrong about energy was immediately followed by a repetition of the idea that the country is suffering a disastrous outflow of jobs to foreign countries.
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He traces the history of the modern American left to show where, in his view, it lost its way, and how that digression prepared the way for the populist right.
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In a recent episode — the podcast is releasing a summer mini-season while working on a more expansive Season 2 — her opening monologue leaps into a digression about her life story.
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Forced to confront arguably the biggest surrender of his presidency, Mr. Trump did what he often does after a loss: respond with distraction, digression and entertainment, through a fog of words.
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There is, however, a haunting digression, a dog who might be a subject in Pavlov's lab is encouraged by celestial beings to throw off its electrodes and find freedom by the sea.
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One can even hear echoes in Donald Trump's recent speech to the United Nations: His long digression on the evils of socialism seems drawn from the heated rhetoric of ads gone by.
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He delivered a lengthy digression on the State of the Union address, noting that Democrats sat on their hands as he ticked off one measure of success for the country after another.
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But, while this is a blog about Louis Tomlinson's tweet and the new, edgy career that gave rise to it, these details feel like a digression from the real thrust of things.
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But that's precisely the sort of digression in which a book can indulge that can become ungainly -- as the film does for the first hour or so -- when fashioned into a theatrical blockbuster.
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" When he had finished, an obviously worked-up Mr. Obama apologized for the digression, saying that as he neared the end of his presidency, he felt entitled to go "on these occasional rants.
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He'd be saddened by the digression that these conversations and debates have taken, and also saddened that we're so disoriented in the world," Cindy McCain said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union.
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Williams's fear of rhetorical indulgence prohibited reflective insight, essayistic digression, and relief of any kind from the regime of methodical close description—the journey from Kansas, the Colorado weather, the endless slaughter of buffalo.
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Every so often, a performer drifts or rushes into an apparent digression, as when one, who self-identifies as a "sex educator," pulls out a few of his flogging whips and begins twirling them.
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In another stream of consciousness digression, Trump suddenly started pondering his prospects in his own re-election race, wondering what a bad showing in November would portend for his hopes of a second term.
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That could mean a digression into the courts, which I don't think the Democrats want given they're already fighting for the Mueller grand jury materials and Don McGahn's testimony in that very same venue.
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Yet one wonders how Paley came to decide that the fictional imagination, which loves digression, inconsistency, and the beauty of the trivial, could no longer help her say what she wanted to about the world.
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She also nimbly leaps from personal stories to big-picture analysis, including a damning digression about Picasso, whom she calls a misogynist, citing both his own statements and an affair with a 17-year-old.
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Entering Thursday evening, Mr. Biden had subsisted as a peculiar kind of favorite: 76 and rusty, his speeches heavier on curious digression than stirring crescendo, unapologetic about his affection for a bygone era of comity.
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Douthat: That digression is illustrative, though: It's clearly easier to make a case against this administration on its mix of dishonesty, turpitude and chaos than it is to argue against a 3.8 percent unemployment rate.
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His speech was intended to showcase the health of the economy, but he veered into an extended digression about his recent address to Congress and accused Democrats of "treason" for refusing to clap at points.
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He took his place in a gathering heavy on gentle applause and precarious digression as Mr. Biden moved through his remarks with a signature medley of "not a joke" interjection and "Barack and I" reminiscences.
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There were some apparent tangents — one promise to wrap up his address drifted into a digression on illness in China — but he also ended with a forceful conclusion about America's strengths and received a standing ovation.
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" During a bizarre digression in North Carolina on Tuesday night, Mr. Trump seemed to accuse America's fighting men and women of plundering the war effort in the Middle East (although a spokeswoman later denied it): "Iraq.
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This William Christie-led period-instrument group often performs Baroque opera when it passes through New York, but here, in a program titled "Music for Marie Antoinette," the ensemble makes a welcome digression into later music.
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Yet, by the time Rowling has gathered all her story lines together and a somnolent Zoë Kravitz, as the slinky Leta Lestrange, is guiding you through another digression, the movie has loosened its grip on you.
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At first I was surprised that a stage actor would be asked for opinions on contemporary painting, but after listening more closely I've concluded that the two planned this digression: Mostel has plenty to say about it.
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These banalities are pit stops where his storming, improvised sentences can regather and refuel; and this becomes painfully obvious when the story is banal, when the story itself is a digression from the heart of the matter.
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In a counterfactual digression, Herzog imagines that a mass exodus from Earth has taken place, and then he spots "some stragglers," a group of orange-robed Buddhist monks ambling about, many of them looking at their phones.
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Like anyone else with a desk job, I spent the majority of my waking hours peering into a computer, typing and tabbing through the days, the web browser a current of digital digression running beneath my work.
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I also don't want to write a review of this console because every time I think about it I end up veering into some digression about the technical specs, which is a ghastly tech review trope to do.
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This powerful digression is ultimately joined to a sorrowful reflection on the July 2011 mass shooting on Norway's Utoya island, where 69 people were shot by a sole gunman, Anders Behring Breivik, pretending to be a police officer.
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After an anti-Republican digression on American political reform, he demands increased support for education, active labour market policies (including job guarantees), greater investment in infrastructure, more action to combat climate change, anti-discrimination policies and fairer taxes.
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It's a groove-gilded warning that the pair aren't about to take anyone's BS, with the latter singing "Ain't nothing with some digression, ain't got no time for your aggression" over a deep, funky bassline and bright, swaggering synths.
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Trump's remarks amounted to a 90-minute digression: from antifa, to his margin of victory in Arizona, to the scourge of fake news, to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to Foxconn, to MS-13 terrorizing Long Island, to nominal GDP growth.
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The hectic, calculated busyness of "Mary Poppins Returns," by contrast, wears you out almost immediately, in part because every throwaway gag and narrative digression has been so vainly contrived to pay off in a flurry of climactic would-be surprises.
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There's even a fascinating digression on how the grooves on the "Evita" LP had to be widened so that when "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" appeared on the radio it would have sufficient volume to compete with the other pop songs.
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This is what happened when a barely planned digression about a fraud case generated a controversy: Mr Trump rambled that the judge ruling against him was conflicted because he was "a Mexican" (actually an American-born son of Mexican parents).
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The book occasionally turns into a digression-filled pastiche, and there are times when it feels like a homework assignment, with an aperçu by Montaigne, say, or a not particularly pertinent Chekhov short story, "The Bet," enlisted for unwilling service.
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Danny Crichton: All right, so before we get into the regular topics, kind of the venture world that we usually talk about, I want to do a digression unto the public markets because in the last 48 hours they've been leading the headlines.
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Early in "Armand V.," we get a digression of forty or fifty pages, as a long footnote fills us in on the early life of one of Armand's university friends, a character who appears once again in the book, but only briefly.
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Readers of contemporary autofiction will recognize the form: plot is relaxed into essay, with room for authorial digression, political and theoretical commentary, and reports on what the author has been reading, along with just enough storytelling to keep the novel moving forward.
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Here, the two strains seem to be in desperate competition, each demanding more and more space until the narrative literally breaks apart, its two autobiographical sections — the first 203 and final 300 pages — separated by a 440-page digression on literature and history.
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His stand-up has long found creative ways to ridicule well-worn expressions ("I can't even begin to tell you; I'll begin to tell you," went one digression), and he delights in playing devil's advocate (see his remarkably persuasive case for Vanilla Ice).
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To get too deeply into the plot, as usual, would rapidly become a breathless digression about how, actually, yeah, the abusive alien clown who spends a lot of time here delivering sermons and drinking human breast milk has always been a, uh, controversial figure.
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He admits he might be a little partial to Siri, but still argues devices that are solely controlled by the voice make the interaction "weaker" and is a "digression" from all the progress the tech industry has made in graphical user interfaces and contextual systems.
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In a sparkling, unexpected digression—there are many such in this book—he mentions Dick's fascination with the Stalinist show trials, in which the victims were forced to deny what they had believed their whole lives, and to denounce their earlier selves as unrecognizable monsters.
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Once Mitchell began playing with accomplished jazz musicians (Yaffe rightfully goes on a long digression on the career of Jaco Pastorius, the genius bass player who transformed her sound) in her mid-career, all those unresolved chords and swooping vocal lines began to make sense.
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" The tour Noe gives us of the town is full of pleasures: a digression on traveling encyclopedia salesmen; illuminating, often comic descriptions of the social intricacies of church and pub culture; the chemist's shop with its "once flood-swollen and now lifted-in-places linoleum.
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"A Cock and Bull Story", which features film-makers struggling to adapt Lawrence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" (an 18th-century novel so prone to digression that the narrator takes several volumes to reach his own birth), skilfully manoeuvred the problems of adapting a book about writing a book.
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Jordan gets away with these infelicities, paradoxically, because he's a good writer and knows how to pace a story — an uncommon gift these days — and because (also rare) his earnest curiosity about the emotional pulses of his characters isn't buried in sheaves of novelistic analysis or digression.
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After all, this a guy who over the course of our digression-filled and lively conversation would lean closer to my recorder so it would clearly pick up that his face looked "like an elderly man's slow-pitch softball mitt" after eating several footlong hot dogs on tour.
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There is a digression, too, on the Western funeral industry's fixation on "dignity," by which they really mean silence, composure, and repression—this, too, is a moment of genuine feeling, and Doughty shows that though her tone is often light, she has the capacity to move and enrage.
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An apparently typical digression about fraud and the popular vote during a meeting with congressional leaders this week "was greeted with silence, and Mr. Trump was prodded to change the subject by Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, and Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas," according to The New York Times.
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To be sure, it was a welcome digression from Trump's usual barrage of purely ad hominem attacks upon his opponent — a strategy designed to deflect attention from more complex and hard-to-explain issues of genuine substantive importance — but it still managed to steer clear of exhibiting any discernible hints of meaningful thought.
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Critics of the United Nations backed tribunal, which is financed by Lebanon and Western donors, have called the case an unnecessary digression from its mandate, which is to clarify the question of who orchestrated the car bombing that killed Rafik Hariri, a former prime minister of Lebanon, in 2005 in central Beirut.
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I found a long and somewhat puzzling digression on the history of the real Annie Oakley behind Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" less effective — I just didn't get the point, except that when Ethel Merman immortalized the role on Broadway in 1946, the actual Annie had been dead for only 20 years.
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Digression is a common literary technique favored by authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, but outside of the last two entries in the Saints Row franchise (a series Chung name-dropped as keeping a surrealist streak alive in games), it's not something we see much of in either the AAA or indie-gaming space.
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Cutting back and forth in time, while draping every manner of philosophical digression upon the armature of his characters' lives, Mr. Bellow conjured both the busy mental life of his heroes — men who live, quite willfully, in their heads — and their daily, creaturely existence, their hectic encounters with tempestuous women, fast-talking pitchmen, professional jokesters, bumblers, bureaucrats and poseurs.
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The duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman is unlike other radio broadcasts in the sense that where one team might employ a wild card—a play-by-play man prone to curlicues or puns or narcolepsy, say, or a benignly sozzled ex-player given to MC Escher-esque digression—the Yankees employ two of the most relentlessly, intensely weird broadcasters in the sport, at the same time.
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Shameless in repeating the same adjective from one line to the next, incontinent in the accumulation of these same adjectives, capable of opening a sententious digression without managing to close it because the syntax cannot hold up, and panting along in this way for twenty lines, it is mechanical and clumsy in its portrayal of feelings: the characters either quiver, or turn pale, or they wipe away large drops of sweat that run down their brow, they gabble with a voice that no longer has anything human about it, they rise convulsively from a chair and fall back into it, while the author always takes care, obsessively, to repeat that the chair onto which they collapsed again was the same one on which they were sitting a second before.
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