This novel, like its predecessor, is overstuffed, packed with incident and narrators and digressions within digressions.
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Spanberger had little patience for what she saw as digressions.
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Coens' digressions, and frustrated by their total disinterest in wrapping up
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As always, the best part of the franchise is the digressions.
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Between the stories of the composers, Mr Swafford slips in many interesting digressions.
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After these temporal and geographic digressions, the film settles down in contemporary Paris.
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I longed for the idiosyncrasies, false notes, and digressions of an actual interview.
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But even allowing for Haddish's hilarious digressions, "Nobody's Fool" is a baggy movie.
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Though when the plot thickens with storied digressions, the narrative tends to flag.
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The books are filled with the narrator's morose digressions and word-defining asides.
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To keep their act feeling fresh, they added seemingly improvised asides and digressions.
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But when the digressions are more engaging than the main story, something's fatally wrong.
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With 10 hours, you can have entire episodes that are digressions or back story.
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The misstatements and digressions hardly disappeared when Mr. Biden set foot in South Carolina.
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Then I must be careful to add, Please ignore my crazy digressions, my playful revisions.
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Yet the works by Jess's friends and contemporaries feel like digressions from a central narrative.
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Benjamin's gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.
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You were talking about how you came across all these digressions in the course of research.
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At typical drama length, this series might have been bogged down with plot digressions and expansions.
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And yet the quirks of anonymous online reviews—typos, digressions, outbursts—also give them a certain authority.
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But what if an entire life were merely a collection of digressions, a slalom of such swerves?
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There are occasional bad puns and tortured metaphors, as well as periodic digressions that seem like padding.
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He also offered digressions on the positive things he said his administration was accomplishing, including the economy.
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Despite its digressions — and there are many like this — "Identity Unknown" is also a deeply personal book.
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In conversation, Chapman's delightfully open and friendly, prone to thoughtful digressions and constantly adding qualifiers to his thoughts.
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There are also a few digressions that explain the history of major Serbian waves of immigration to America.
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And this might be tiresome if the digressions weren't so good, so fully realized and meticulously, skillfully rendered.
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The story is a lyrical portrait of postwar United States, with digressions on the supernatural and space travel.
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The powerful aspects of the content are thus offset by detours and digressions that could have been excised.
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The relevant facts in these digressions point to a brick apocalypse that dates back as far as 733.
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In other words, Trump's digressions and rambles are much easier to follow in person thanks to subtle cues.
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Along the way, there have been some hilariously petty digressions, which Nguyen, untrained in the law, has handled patiently.
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In the middle of one of his many digressions, Woods asked a question from the side of his mouth.
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I wanted to write a great big, overstuffed book that was filled with things and filled with mad digressions.
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One with a swerving plot line, wild narrative digressions and an unpredictable lead, center stage at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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There are no exotic herbs or other sorts of digressions; it's one part organic ham, one part organic beef.
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There are digressions and some wonderful visual fillips — beautifully curved trees and noble stone statues lined up like soldiers.
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He also simplified Díaz's dense, flowery writing, which is filled with long digressions ranging from footnotes to entire chapters.
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Or as if the essayistic digressions that marbled "My Struggle" had been cleaved off to stand on their own.
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When he's speaking off the cuff, his rambling remarks can be full of digressions and hard-to-follow tangents.
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It was tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts, with few of the digressions that typically make headlines after Trump events.
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What she called ''codas, afterthoughts, parentheticals, digressions, qualifications'' were often attempts to get at saying something the exact right way.
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The momentum suffers from the narrative's overpopulation; and Slezkine falls into digressions about the Exodus, Armageddon and repressed memory theory.
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The pace precludes boredom, and the loss of Kushner's digressions about American history won't be felt too keenly by French viewers.
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But how he comes to it, and what he experiences along the way, takes any number of digressions and double-backs.
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Theories have ranged from it being a simple clock, to baroque digressions about how it was gifted to humanity by aliens.
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Despite the deconstruction, the form Gilman adopts — with its digressions and asides, potted histories and accidental anachronisms — is still pretty hokey.
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As Mr. Michele spins out his epic, with all its artistic digressions and excess and emotion, he could use one, too.
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In its entertaining narrative, full of postmodern digressions, a young professor tries to write a biography of his political activist mother.
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But listen to the second disc, which contains three extra-long group digressions, and you'll find yourself prowling through new territory.
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And Mr. Cuomo's frequent digressions, which can often come across as self-absorbed or corny, now capture an everyman's emotional unease.
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The two narratives begin all tangled up, alternating paragraphs, before separating out into chapter-long digressions about the two heroes' lives.
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Yet this intriguing story would have benefited from a stronger editorial hand that might have restrained the author's many distracting digressions.
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I used the word eccentric before to describe his storytelling style, and it includes delightful digressions into his own life experiences.
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His account of his life is interspersed with essaylike digressions on the history of photography and the image saturation of digital culture.
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In June, Mr. Trump's closest confidants implored him to stick to a teleprompter, end his freestyle digressions and focus on his message.
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The digressions and flashbacks rest on a familiar sequence: a crisis is followed by an attempt at sobriety and, usually, a relapse.
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It is built to accommodate digressions about Thanksgiving and Santería as well as opportunistic punch lines about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
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Mr. Jimenez, a writer-performer who moved to Brooklyn when he was 9, segues seamlessly between reminiscences and digressions, English and Spanish.
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For a book so lush, filled with humor and philosophical digressions, perhaps some of this can be lost on the younger reader.
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Odd digressions into science fiction, Hollywood history, and feminist revenge fantasies combined to make this the show's most ambitious and emotionally resonant season.
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The EP's only colorful moments are its interstitial "ms800" pieces, sub-minute digressions that sound like demonstrations of the titular synth's unique sound.
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There are all kinds of digressions in each chapter, some of which feel more like information dumps than components of a cohesive narrative.
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It's fitfully funny, occasionally sad, and fond of long digressions that seemingly have nothing to do with anything — but might be the whole point.
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I was supposed to be teaching tenses and vocabulary, but the women wanted to talk about their lives, and mostly I permitted the digressions.
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He would have to stick to a teleprompter and end his freestyle digressions and insults, like his repeated attacks on a Hispanic federal judge.
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The movie also dispenses with many of the book's digressions into scientific theory and the mysteries of the universe, which, apparently, really were unfilmable.
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Despite small digressions outside the prison walls (including one to speak with a murder victim's mother), "Q Ball" feels superficial, its positivity somewhat forced.
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There's much to absorb throughout "The Spy Behind Home Plate," and sometimes details speed by too fast or digressions go on a bit long.
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The text is freighted with a history of the pharaohs and digressions on Hermeticism and Rosicrucianism that take us away from the main theme.
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But the combination of her Black Lives Matter endorsement with digressions that seemed an affront to abortion opponents worried some evangelical writers — and InterVarsity supporters.
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General Arrepentiase in particular blows my head off with its internal digressions of the beat, and the ridiculous screeching robot in the second half. 8.
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Aside from substantial digressions for Jesus and Paul, each chapter is devoted to one or two apostles, and divided between passages of history and journalism.
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And it ended with Trump giving a speech in Charleston, West Virginia, that turned into an orgy of pointless digressions and threats to unravel NATO.
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Impeachment still came up, and Mr. Pence handled it in his usual low-key but relentlessly on-message manner, without the president's digressions or dramatics.
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There were no attacks on the media; no especially flamboyant claims or personal jabs; and few significant digressions from the prepared text of his speech.
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The software had a harder time dealing with digressions on sensitive topics like immigration or racism, because the data couldn't mimic effectively that kind of speechifying.
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They don't matter all that much as characters; what matters is Chris Bachelder's clean, precise prose, and the rambling philosophical digressions that punctuate the men's rituals.
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In Freudenberger's hands, long scientific digressions — about the search for the Higgs boson, the existence of dark matter, the collisions of black holes — never feel unnecessary.
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The novel would have benefited from some rigorous editing — there are digressions about business travails, V-2 rockets and "Gravity's Rainbow" that are tedious and superfluous.
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But when Victor Hugo's novel itself, not one of its many adaptations, was really popular in America, it was both beloved and widely mocked for its digressions.
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They got him to flip-flop on immigration, and never stepped in to stop him when he went on weird digressions about the size of his penis.
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In one of the book's more interesting digressions, Ms Ehrenreich argues that the idea of self-mastery is misguided since it stems from a misreading of biology.
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There's a numbing sameness to the casual bloodshed here that makes the viewer almost long for the relative calm of the first film's lengthy pop culture digressions.
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The musical thinks nothing of condensing chapters of exposition or philosophical debate into a single quatrain or unambiguous confrontation; encyclopedic digressions and whole episodes are thrown out.
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She does not allow herself the indulgence of any outlandish sorrow, and so it is often during those scientific digressions that we feel her loss most acutely.
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The 1,500-year-old Talmud is a meandering text including interpretations of biblical Halakha, or Jewish law, ethics and narratives full of digressions and arguments among rabbis.
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Instead, he used a jazzy rhythm and spoke quickly, in bursts of stammering digressions that mixed repurposed Yiddish with rhetorical turns of phrases that aimed for literary pleasures.
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Its digressions and tangents would easily fill up a television season or two, and the movie, directed by Jon M. Chu, can feel a bit rushed and cramped.
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There are elegiac songs about nature and the passage of time (scored by Raymond Bokhour) and gently comic digressions from the main story, drawn from Irving's other writing.
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"The Mosquito" suffers from the necessary myopia of the genre (in addition to some florid writing, repetition, and digressions through blockbuster movies and the Western Civ highlight reel).
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But at a rally in Roanoke Monday, he was back to his more typical off-the-cuff and bombastic mode, eschewing a teleprompter and going on endless digressions.
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The antihero stuff proceeds on such a well-worn track because the digressions that initially seem like pointless ways to fill time ultimately start to take over the show.
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The book spans two continents, nearly a century, two converging story lines — each dangling digressions like an overtrimmed Christmas tree — and runs to around 900 pages of dense prose.
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He sifts through his life in associative digressions, encompassing case studies of patients, family memories, and the fates of those caught up in the atrocities of the twentieth century.
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Nevertheless, her narration, like that of her siblings, is weighed down by repetitions, long descriptions and digressions — on food, mainly — and a cloying sensibility that may alienate some readers.
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"I am interested in understanding how she and I are relatives," the narrator says in one of her better digressions, and one answer she contemplates is: in Minkowski spacetime.
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Mr. del Paso's sprawling novels were based in history and rife with digressions, allusions and metaphors stacked on metaphors; his sentences could stretch on for a page or more.
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His testimony also triggered repeated interventions by the prosecution and the federal judge to stop with the digressions and keep his responses from devolving into a stand-up act.
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All the while, Kohler reflects on that life in a series of digressions as he struggles to write the preface to his magnum opus, a study of Nazi Germany.
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He spoke with no notes, and his rambling digressions, of which there were many, were hard to follow for anyone who was not well versed in the Sonny Vaccaro story.
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Digressions. Mix-ups. Mistakes. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has a choppy speaking style that could undermine his message at a time when he needs to attract more voters and donors.
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Lively digressions on Alexander's adventures in a diving bell, or on the development of Greco-Roman torture instruments, are entertaining, even if they deviate somewhat from the author's central theme.
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Camp Cope takes these lyrical digressions, winds them tightly around bright suburban indie rock for as long as they will run, and then picks the threads until they're frayed out.
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Wary, perhaps, of taxing readers' patience, he finishes his tour in three hundred pages, resisting what must have been an overwhelming urge to interrupt the narrative with disco-graphical digressions.
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As "Creatures" unfolds, Van Meter subverts narrative expectations by making long and frequent digressions away from the compelling present, pre-wedding story line, to reveal either the past or future.
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Early on, there is a shooting, but who has been shot — and how and why and by whom — only gets revealed over the course of the film's mostly entertaining digressions.
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Sometimes he offers sympathetic digressions from his own experience, like the tale of an African-American soldier in World War I or a discussion of the rape of female soldiers.
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On matters fraught and frivolous, Senate allies have coaxed Judge Gorsuch to the safest of verbal cul-de-sacs, eager to defuse Democratic lines of attack with whimsy and digressions.
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The gargantuan yet well-ordered text brims with lucid annotations, extended quotations from rare source materials, fascinating paraphrases, provocative formulations and philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms and experimental theses.
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As someone who never made it through the second season's endless digressions, I've only watched a handful of episodes here and there up to Agent Cooper's visit to the Black Lodge.
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Game by game, set by set, this match — a product of the author's imagination, not of the historical record — advances, with asides and digressions that reveal Mr. Enrigue's presence and purpose.
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He was relaxed, cheery and remarkably willing to take any number of digressions in our conversation, which ended up a little like one of his albums: Winding, informative and thought-provoking.
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Each planet is a densely knotted level, a miniature open world with winding linear paths and significant side digressions that unravel only as you progress in player skill and character ability.
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He takes extensive notes on the sideline in color-coded pens, quotes the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and is prone to lengthy digressions about the chemistry of the human brain.
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"Saaho," written and directed by Sujeeth, has a dense and confusing opening hour, with extended digressions and too many characters introduced by metaphorical (and in once case literal) cracks of lightning.
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Cynical and sometimes venomous, Paul's rants and digressions — employed to forestall a critical family discussion — commandeer so much screen time that you wish he'd choke on his so-called Thumbelina carrots.
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This occasionally results in awkward transitions of the "Oh, and that reminds me" sort, and for some out-of-nowhere digressions of a kind that would have pleased the elder Pliny.
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In other words, Trump's digressions and rambles — or, as he says, when "the back of the sentence reverts to the front" — are much easier to follow in person thanks to subtle cues.
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There are entries on smoothies and weird encounters at the liquor store, digressions on selfies, yoga, and capitalism, a reference to the TV show " Search Party " and the real-estate app Zillow.
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Having this kind of compass gives both writer and reader latitude to enjoy Martin's numerous digressions and discursive wanderings with the security of knowing that everything is somehow connected to that question.
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Problematic relies on a tried-and-true format: Introduce the topic; interview a principle guest; open it up for discussion; wrap it up; pepper with jokes, digressions, and comedy sketches to taste.
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Told in patient, psychologically complex prose, "Sight" combines the narrator's thoughts about her mother, who died several years earlier, and remembrances of her grandmother, a psychoanalyst, with relevant digressions about scientific history.
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In it, Bolaño enfolds the adventures of Jan, Remo and José Arco — along with Jan's sci-fi letters and digressions — into a rich and wry second narrative, packed with enigmatic, funny allusion.
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Baseball is a peculiar sport, filled with dozens of climactic anticlimaxes, and wide pockets of time for digressions into movies or politics or, in Keith's case, deeply felt opinions about uniform design.
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And while Mr. Bannon described the president as "maniacally focused" on fulfilling his campaign promises, Mr. Trump often loses focus, as he did during numerous digressions from his scripted remarks on Friday.
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And while her story takes a few meandering digressions, that's only natural, considering the gleefully reckless way she and David careered through their 20s, without much thought given to a future career.
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The trunk does not yield much, but family and friends offer recollections: their revisions, obfuscations, and digressions illustrate Oe's abiding interest in the elusiveness of personal and national memory in postwar Japan.
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If Mr. Trump strained to project a presidential air, stifling digressions and generally staying on script, the spectacle also laid bare the simmering tensions that have overtaken an already long-polarized building.
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The film is divided into chapters, each detailing an "incident", alongside digressions on art, dessert wines and Nazi architecture, and supplemented by animation, video essays and footage from Mr von Trier's previous films.
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I ask no less than four times over two hours, tolerating digressions and caveats that for each person it is a little different, or that I probably don't have the same supplements abroad.
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"Cusset never lets her intellectual digressions slow the tempo of her staccato prose, the music of which Fagan's translation faithfully preserves," Ayten Tartici writes, reviewing the book alongside two other recent French novels.
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Years later, their relationship has ruptured but still forms the emotional core of the novel, which brims with "cadenced digressions and lyrical love letters" to dance and London itself, Holly Bass wrote here.
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Mr. Younger's direction is focused and sometimes disarming — scenes that at first seem like slice-of-life digressions, such as a postaccident surprise birthday party for the protagonist, lead to unexpected mini-epiphanies.
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The sweeping force of the text is reminiscent at times of the Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wadji Mouawad's most vital plays, and like Mr. Mouawad, Mr. Melquiot is occasionally given to drawn-out digressions.
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In other words, this might be a case of pop history repeating itself—and further proof that for boundary-pushing artists, digressions into traditional red-white-and-blue patriotism isn't exactly a selling point.
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Ellis runs a no-nonsense courtroom, admonishing lawyers to keep their arguments brief, but he's also known for off-the-cuff jokes and digressions about his years as a lawyer and as a judge.
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There are surges and digressions, including a caterwauling duet between drums and tenor, before the bracing last few minutes — a climactic resolution in which Mr. Malaby rightly seems to be screaming through his horn.
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Her face framed in full nun's habit and filling the screen almost edge to edge, she answered viewers' questions at a leisurely, sigh-punctuated pace that accommodated the long digressions that became her trademark.
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War and Peace towered above all other novels for Russians during World War II, and it inspired Stalingrad and Life and Fate, with their extended family of protagonists and their philosophical and historical digressions.
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It was also almost completely incoherent, a political word salad consisting of a series of digressions that ended with a plea for parents to leave the "record player" on so their children hear words.
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Tutuola's novels are all relatively short, but they contain the kinds of subplots, side quests, and digressions typical of epics such as The Odyssey, or Arthurian legends, or, yes, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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The film peters out after wandering around with its characters for much too long, throwing in some minor digressions about the semi-related Russian "troll farm" scandal and Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference.
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He structures this story as a series of chapter-length digressions on themes—his conversion to Judaism, his search for his white ancestors, the crops that slaves farmed—rather than as a straightforward, historical narrative.
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In "Flights," she added, Ms. Tokarczuk "flies us through a galaxy of departures and arrivals, stories and digressions, all the while exploring matters close to the contemporary and human predicament — where only plastic escapes mortality."
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My aim was to present a rounded portrait of the women — and to encourage digressions and discussions that would provide a more nuanced profile than the kind of caricatures pundits and social media often supply.
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He is an affable man who smiles readily, listens empathetically, speaks with long, engaging digressions that invariably circle around to arrive at a sharp point, and enjoys close friendships with many people around the world.
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The books, written in a tone that's both arch and despairing, with constant digressions that discuss (among other things) correct usage of language, grammar and slang, are probably as close to Nabokov as children's literature gets.
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In the same interview, Reid, the former aide to the commerce secretary under Bill Clinton, said Trump has proven time and again to be unpredictably successful despite his digressions, which poses a challenge to Hillary Clinton.
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" Though the Smog Veil box aims to liberate Laughner's image from the dark cloud of death-tripping, it's hard to shake the eerie vibes, particularly on his final recordings on the set's last disc, "Nocturnal Digressions.
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" Though the Smog Veil box aims to liberate Laughner's image from the dark cloud of death-tripping, it's hard to shake the eerie vibes, particularly on his final recordings on the set's last disc, "Nocturnal Digressions.
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She begins her idealistic spiel about the constitution as a "crucible" as if she was still a bright-eyed 15-year-old, but she regularly interrupts herself with the insights and digressions of a 40-something woman.
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In the process of these digressions, the telecom CEO admitted that what his company does amounts to being a neutral, purely transmissive party — which is funny, considering the FCC makes the opposite assertion in its present rules.
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Liberally sprinkling familiar verbal tics like "like" and "um" throughout her chatter, not to mention fractured sentences and digressions, she unfolded the not particularly remarkable story of her youth and teenage years, in often hilariously granular detail.
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The digressions were part of a meandering, more than hourlong speech, interspersed with scripted praise for Mr. Strange and extemporaneous declarations of wonder about the sheer size of the 6-foot-9 senator known as Big Luther.
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Narrated by a poet in a foreign country, the novel and its inflections suggest that feeling itself is almost foreign and hard to pin down; that it has to be outlined with many subclauses, digressions and asides.
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They get their facts from TV shows and various not-strictly-authoritative online sources; they're loose with the details, riff freely, and take long digressions into movies they've seen and self-care tips they've learned in therapy.
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And if you pay the right kind of attention to "Lady Bird" — absorbing its riffs and digressions as well as its melodies, its choral passages along with its solos and duets — you will almost certainly love it.
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After a few minutes of digressions, including one very painful moment where he joked about the #MeToo movement sending him "to my grave" (ha?), I find myself plugged into Belfort's description of his "Straight Line System" for sales.
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That or it's Ben Affleck in voiceover, or it's Bill Simmons over the course of thousands of words, all his digressions down the usual basic-cable cul de sacs merging back, honking, into the main flow of traffic.
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Thomas has a gift for interior monologues that flow steadily and easily, carrying you through a character's mental landscape, full of vivid imagery and digressions that flirt with spinning out of control but never quite go too far.
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Instead ... President Trump introduced a new manifestation of the permanent campaign on his first full day in office when he traveled to the CIA's most hallowed ground to deliver remarks that included rally-style digressions, boasts and inaccuracies.
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In his limited time, Mr. Smith finds room for informative digressions on the biology of lead poisoning, the history of water delivery and the 2001-10 contamination of the Washington, D.C., water system that presaged the Flint disaster.
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What we get instead are hopped-up rants against pussy hats cut with rueful digressions about menopause and marriage, like a dismal cross between a Bari Weiss op-ed and Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck.
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Her resemblance to her mom stunned me, as did the fact that she used language in a way I'd always thought was my thing: She spoke in paragraphs, these long, run-on sentences filled with adjectives, adverbs, and digressions.
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The show is vaguely centered around your enlistment into this organization, with digressions into ritual sacrifice and a bunch of other horror tricks and tropes that I didn't have the computing power to fully process amid all the confusion.
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But it's Mr. Hugo's digressions from portraiture, like the 2018 still-life "Making Pigments, San Agustin Etla" that suggest an alternative sensibility; more of this would offer a searching look at Mexico, rather than indulge in its purported mysteries.
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A tighter show might cut these delicious numbers as digressions, and it's true that Mr. O'Hara's production favors the kind of wild spontaneity you find in his own plays (like "Bootycandy" and "Barbecue") over a more tucked-in approach.
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When we get presentations of the art of non-Western societies, particularly in Schama's episodes, these are digressions from the overall narrative arc, which is the story of the development of European (and to a lesser extent American) art.
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They provided a pleasant melody running through so much chaos jazz, and they implicitly promise us that in a story of a world gone crazy-wayward, full of tangents and digressions, all roads will eventually lead back to Twin Peaks.
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More of a doctoral thesis than a visceral scary movie, its scholarly digressions recall the scene in "Call Me By Your Name" in which Oliver hears the precocious Elio playing Bach on the piano "the way Liszt would have played it".
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It relied on another new wrinkle, thanks to the tree psychic Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright): flashbacks, another TV device the series used to eschew (and one that actually restored an element of the books, their digressions into Westeros history).
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Mayer's poems never do; instead, they stay open — to her, to her populous, flowering world and to the readers who might complete, or imitate, or simply live with them, taking their rough patches and digressions as part of her inviting whole.
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Oyeyemi's worlds tend toward the expansive — robust casts of characters, elaborate plots that unspool gradually, making way for digressions and asides — and the lock-and-key theme is further reflected in the way the stories spiral nimbly toward their conclusions.
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Hilary Mantel should feel no need to prove her historical expertise by now, but she drifts at times too deep into extensive technical descriptions, digressions on how the Tudor nobility feasted or how their king costed the construction of his warships.
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To be honest, at a certain point I felt a sense of dread each time another society entered the picture; the proliferation of stories began to seem like an endless series of digressions rather than the cumulative construction of an argument.
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And the elements that make a podcast spark — internal conflict, patient world building, conversational digressions — don't translate seamlessly to TV. "There were things we loved about the podcast, but we had to turn it into an ABC show," Mr. Braff said.
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The goal was to show how realistically the software could reproduce a realistic-sounding speech on either a general topic, or a specific statement from a secretary general of the UN, and finally if the software could include digressions on politically sensitive topics.
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Too many detours and digressions, however, made the series less compelling -- and more significantly, reduced the incentive to invest the time and brain power seemingly required to contemplate its various turns, beginning with the reams of analysis and speculation devoted to them.
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You can hear Burroughs' hallucinogens and hipsters in many of the numerous digressions in Gravity's Rainbow, particularly in the last hundred or so pages where Pynchon quotes from Naked Lunch and where, like the rocket, Gravity's Rainbow appears to lurch out of control.
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That's a topic that should by all rights be insufferable, but in Daniels's hands it becomes a compelling exploration of his own sadomasochistic drives and their relationships with his newfound sobriety and struggling writing career (with digressions into the history of Brazilian novels).
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Danois spoke to enough people to compile an oral history, yet he has the good sense and talent to unspool the narrative with brief, well-timed digressions into quirky stories and characters, even if he sometimes appears credulous in passing along others' memories.
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Created by Rude Mechs and produced by Yale Repertory Theater, which commissioned it, "Field Guide" distills 800 pages of text into alt-comedy riffs, surrealist digressions and several scenes in which cardboard set pieces whiz around the stage more or less by themselves.
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Another crucial change in the first episode, discreetly slipped into the dialogue, recasts the entire plot, changing the motive for Hanna's mission from revenge to survival — a switch that lowers the intensity but opens the door for complications, digressions and future seasons.
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Last year, after her three-hour set in Melbourne drew a mixed reaction, Kraviz posted a thorough analysis on Facebook, explaining precisely how she had used mischievous stylistic digressions and jarring tempo shifts to create a "wild, ravy mix" that confounded expectations.
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That would normally be an extremely labor-intensive process, but the team used a technique called dynamic time warping to map the ideal written score to each performance, in which creative liberties and the innate variability of human execution cause digressions from the original.
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One chapter, which starts and ends atop the George Washington Bridge in 1930 and makes a pit stop at the pyramids in Egypt, includes digressions on the start of Dittrich's career, his love of Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" and the record for highest high dive.
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"While 'Bitch' is full of enormous contradictions, bizarre digressions and illogical outbursts, it is also one of the more honest, insightful and witty books on the subject of women to have come along in a while," Karen Lehrman wrote in a review in The Times.
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And Mr. Biden, who arrived late, also went on long digressions, touching on subjects including the Industrial Revolution and the Luddites, and he name-checked former Senate colleagues like Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri and Iowa's John C. Culver.
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A food blogger (Seiko Matsuda) aids him in that search, which means that otherwise pedestrian conversational scenes are enlivened with shots of dishes like fish head curry and digressions on how Pandan leaves are used in Southeast Asian cooking to add flavor and color.
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But it was the former secretary of state who pulled off the more fascinating performance -- taking command of the stage, dominating Trump on a wide array of issues, luring him into ill-advised digressions about the source of his wealth and whether he pays federal taxes.
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In this regard, Older has actually matured as a writer from her earlier works, as the detailed digressions are fewer and far between, but they remain as distracting from her core plot, and take time away from the needed work of fleshing out her characters further.
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Louis pauses the drama for digressions on violence in the village, on how the structures of domination in the playground mirror those in the world at large, even on dental care: I could smell their breath as they got closer, an odor of sour milk, dead animals.
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With his obligatory attacks on the news media, his leisurely digressions into his 2016 election victory, his professions of affection for strongmen like Kim Jong-un of North Korea, and the thumping classic-rock soundtrack, Mr. Trump could have been at one of his political rallies.
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While Lavery's analysis could easily have sustained itself without many of the above philosophical and psychoanalytical digressions, what might be missing from Quaint, Exquisite is a more extensive survey on the way Japonisme penetrated (or failed to seep into) the visual arts, apart from elements of décor.
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But the narrative is warped by Shlaes's determination to establish that the expansion of federal spending amounted to an embrace of socialism, which leads to long digressions about peripheral figures like Tom Hayden, a student activist whose interest in socialism left no apparent fingerprints on public policy.
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Where the book's digressions sometimes bog down are in its more self-reflective moments: Noe the storyteller defending himself against charges (but whose?) of sentimentality and holding forth on the relationship between story and truth, the real and the imagined, and the enriching merits of the arts.
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"We will look out for digressions on the topic of monetary policy to confirm whether the recent sound bites heard on various newswires and from less senior ECB officials, stressing the central bank is in wait and see mode, are also his views," Mizuho said in a note.
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With intrusive narrators, slatternly plots, odd punctuation, and long, ambling digressions, books like "Tristram Shandy" and "Joseph Andrews" try the patience of many contemporary readers, and modern efforts to emulate them—Thomas Pynchon's " Mason & Dixon " and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle spring to mind—are frequently greeted with exasperation.
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There are also honkingly dull digressions into the spiritual meaning of becoming a hermit ("In Hindu philosophy, everyone ideally matures into a hermit"), some pseudoscience about solitude and brain function, and an unfortunate comparison with prisoners in solitary confinement, who hardly have the luxury of choosing their solitude.
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Her digressions into texts ranging from Homer and Jung to Peter Jackson's early film "Heavenly Creatures" are often fascinating, but they come to feel like attempts to make the affair stand in for more than what it wants to be, or to provide relief from its ultimate hollowness.
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Instead, Fleischer's zippy pace and Rheese and Wernick's clever story-structure — which starts in the middle of the action, then fills in key details later, often via amusing little digressions — proves both disarming and ingratiating, if only because it shows how the filmmakers respect the audience's savviness about zombie conventions.
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"Vale Lutetia," a long poem in praise of Paris dating from the 1920s, is not without its charms—as when he recalls drifting into a cinema to watch Cecil B. DeMille's first Ten Commandments movie—but it is a shapeless mess, given to digressions and untenable idealizations of the city.
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The script, which Green co-wrote with Howard, is punctuated by thoughtful snippets of Ayanna's poetry, as well as impassioned discussions of everything from the politics of black art to the compartmentalization of women's lives — blunt, disarmingly candid digressions that have the organic feel of conversations caught on the fly.
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We meet Mr. Long — a friend and onetime love interest of Mr. McLemore's who, as we learn in one of the show's most endearing digressions, may be the world's biggest fan of "Brokeback Mountain" — in Episode 22 of the podcast, after we think we have a handle on its major contours.
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The perceived digressions — famously acted out by Pablo Picasso during his 'negro' phase and by Henri Matisse during his fauve, or wild beast, period, are only 20th-century manifestations of patterns of regression going back centuries, according to professor Gombrich in his posthumously published book The Preference for the Primitive (2002).
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There they get at the central issues — Louise's infidelity, spurred by Tom's apparent loss of interest in sex, both aggravated by his failure to find work as a music critic — by talking around them in elaborate circles and branching off in digressions that can be hopefully nostalgic or barbed and passive-aggressive.
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Here as in her previous six novels, it's in part Hadley's unflinching dissection of moments and states of consciousness that makes the Woolf comparisons irresistible, but it's also her commitment to following digressions both mental and philosophical (a debate, for instance, on the ethics of tourism) rather than pushing away at plot.
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The childhood abuse, the alcoholism, the affairs and breakups are the stuff of many a memoir — a genre that, curiously, doesn't figure at all in the numerous digressions on literature that dot the landscape of intentional quotidian banality here, even though "My Struggle" has far more in common with memoir than it does with fiction.
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Today, he's scheduled to debut the record, along with his fashion line Yeezy Season 3, at Madison Square Garden; like everything West does, the whole event will likely be a mix of rococo and just plan cuckoo, full of dramatic digressions and cagey humor and lux sneakers neither you nor I will be able to afford.
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Still, whether it's Hockney's early interest in Whitman and Cavafy, his dabbling in Chinese painting theory or his recent crusade, much debated by art historians, to prove that some old masters furtively used optical devices in their paintings, Cusset never lets her intellectual digressions slow the tempo of her staccato prose, the music of which Fagan's translation faithfully preserves.
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The self-assured pop sprinkled throughout FOTB works as an insurance policy against the album's digressions from the Vampire Weekend formula; any risky experiment (such as the loungey slog of "My Mistake" or the cloying "Married In a Gold Rush," which adopts a country cadence and cloaks it in electro-pop) is accompanied with a more straightforward appeal to listeners' pleasure centers.
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Dates and timestamps situate the entries, which are mostly composed of stream-of-consciousness style digressions, in linear time — though even this choice is afforded critical reflection by the artist: 21998/21999/22015 6.35 P.M. writing down the time at which entries are made is as pointless as recreating the floor plan of each hotel room you stayed in while travelling.
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The question, and the framing of it, was brought up by Times reporters Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman at the very end of the very long interview, and Trump's supposed threats were interspersed with long digressions on other matters: SCHMIDT: Last thing, if Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia — is that a red line?
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Though "The Right Kind of Crazy" is hobbled at times by the author's digressions into management-speak (the reader gets the feeling that he was encouraged to try to extrapolate all-purpose lessons about teamwork and leadership from his experiences), the book offers a gripping account of the Curiosity mission, and some fascinating insights into the engineering principles and analytics involved in pulling off the project.
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But that also means that many fans of the musical aren't acquainted with those infamous, lengthy, hundred-page-long digressions that have delighted and frustrated generations of Hugo fans: not the one about the history of the convent where Valjean and Cosette take shelter, not the one about the Battle of Waterloo, and not the one that develops a detailed policy proposal on proper Parisian sewer maintenance.
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Ellis has run a tight courtroom, admonishing lawyers to keep their arguments brief, although the judge himself is prone to digressions and colorful quips — in chastising Asonye for asking leading questions of Pfeiffer on Friday, he told the story of a successful former colleague who never asked leading questions, a lawyer who is now deceased and in the "great litigation land in the sky," the judge said.
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Books this forbiddingly steep need to be entertaining in multiple ways to make them worth the climb, and Moore keeps lobbing treats to urge his readers onward: luscious turns of phrase, unexpected callbacks and internal links, philosophical digressions, Dad jokes, fantastical inventions like the flower resembling a cluster of fairies — the "Puck's Hat" or "Bedlam Jenny" — that is the only food the dead can eat.
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He covers all the major twists and turns of the Maoist regime up to 1989, providing learned, witty digressions on a host of topics from the importance of banquet scenes in Peking opera to what Fang calls the "hallucinatory megalomania in Communist culture," though he readily admits that, like many Chinese intellectuals, he was for years a true believer in Chinese socialism and the greatness of the Chairman.
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Despite being knocked around, White — the author of a previous memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, who estimates he has spent 600 nights of his life camping — still manages to deliver a chatty and entertaining history of self-conscious American attempts to set off into the wild, along with digressions on topics including backpack design, s'mores, 19th-century nervous illnesses, wilderness toilets and the charms of retro camping gear.
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At one point, Donahue allies himself with Dante, another cartographer of the Spirit: my ear turned to the pure song of heaven to the subvocal moans where hell is happening to the digressions of purgatory where each utterance is a spiraling climb of asides Donahue understands that the poet-prophet must be a faithful recorder, listening to the songs, the moans, the spiraling utterances, even if they seem to be mere asides.
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" Because Mr. Touitou, 228, is a gravelly philosopher of bearish proportions, given to lengthy digressions on his pet causes, and because, though he is thoughtful, he can also be fierce, you might, with a nervous twinge, cast your eye down to the dark indigo jeans you are wearing (which you acquired in 20053), or think back to the powder-blue oxford shirt at home in your closet, unshowy but unfailingly appropriate, and think to yourself, "Well … don't they?
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But Smith's capacious art warmly embraces variety, and creates eccentric stylistic families out of disparate inheritances: "English" whimsy sits easily enough alongside "Scottish" postmodernism; the realistic premises of conventional bourgeois fiction (families on holiday, unfaithful spouses, unhappy children, difficult parents) are regularly disrupted by surreal, experimental, or anarchic elements (time travel, ghosts, digressions, adaptations of late Shakespearean romances, and, in "Winter," apparitions such as a floating head and a piece of landscape that hangs over a dining table, visible only to one of the characters).
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" Admittedly, that is not a lot to go on in terms of specifics, but between digressions (including the birth of the universe in Greek mythology and the etymology of the word "muse" as "explore with desire"), the statement does provide one concrete clue: that each work contains "an Axis Mundi," which various cultural traditions interpret as the spiritual link between heaven and earth, but is here defined as "a funnel, a tunnel, a ladder or tree, a line traced […] between actuality, fantasy, and future.
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Each chapter begins with a walk as a sort of compass, claiming an orientation and a position in space: "north on rue de Rennes, past the Fnac, Naf Naf, H&M, right at St Placide and north-east on rue de Vaugirard, past the Institut Catholique where I once taught, keep an eye out for the lovely bookseller in an old butcher's shop … " The way she moves through thoughts and words—unhurried, luxuriating in commonplace detail, digressions and detours developing into the main point—seems to be the textual version of these strolls.
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Mr. Stewart, who now lives in London and whose earlier books cover locales ranging from Madrid to remote parts of Afghanistan, concluded in his research that "the city as we know it today came of age" during the decade sandwiched between the razzle-dazzle of the Roaring Twenties and the grim rumblings of World War II. His book may not be revelatory for many New York aficionados, but its historical digressions, nuggets of forgotten footnotes and the stark contradictions in a city ascendant — but also disproportionately poor, homeless and unemployed — make for riveting reading.
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These citations and digressions, often in lengthy footnotes, can lend the book the feel of a graduate school thesis, and some errors and false impressions creep in: a misleading suggestion that the ICTY one-sidedly prosecuted only Serbs (it did not); the mistaken characterization of a Serbian case against Croatia at the International Court of Justice as involving World War II rather than the more recent conflicts; the incorrect claim that the indictments of Karadzic and his notorious general Ratko Mladic were the first to be handed down by the ICTY.
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