How to Use digressive in a Sentence

digressive

adjective

• Through all of this, Carmichael’s in complete control of his digressive mind.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• The remarks as delivered don’t seem too far off from one of Trump’s digressive riffs.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
• Waltz’s gift for playing not just brilliant but digressive bad guys pays off here.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• People love her, adore her work and simply can’t get enough of her digressive awards speeches.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• The novel explores the mysteries in a wandering, digressive sort of way, as if to recreate the brain-fog that grips the city in its baffling 20 days.
  — Terrence Rafferty, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Even with a week to come up with more a TV-friendly goal or two, Trump's answer was similarly digressive.
  — TheWeek, 2 July 2020
• The book is a slim, digressive mystery, in which veteran journalists swap anecdotes about the bizarre case of a corpse that had no business turning up in their town.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
• Chatty, digressive, and pedantic, the narrator seems to work through a checklist of issues.
  — Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• As Cora discovers, the journey does not always proceed in a straight line, and the digressive nature of the series can be frustrating.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2021
• The plot is mostly conversation, much of it digressive.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• The World in a Selfie is digressive, the chapters like a series of meditations that touch on various aspects of travel and tourism.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• There are a lot of amazing books about the Troubles, but many of them are impenetrable because there’s a highly digressive style of telling stories about the Troubles.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022
• Once Elon settles into the retreat center, the novel changes gears, becomes more digressive and slips into a pattern.
  — John Hildebrand, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2022
• If, occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• And the film sometimes gets lost in them – for example, the digressive story-within-a-story that plays out in the McDormand/Chalamet combo.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
• That said, Ai’s film becomes more digressive than discursive.
  — Irene Hsu, New Republic, 31 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s speech — low-key, digressive and nearly 90 minutes long — fell flat at times with an otherwise adoring audience.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
• Sporting shoulder-length hair and decked out in a moss green velvet blazer, gingham shirt, and skinny tie, Anderson comes across as unassuming and digressive.
  — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Toyota says these shocks use digressive pistons to balance high-speed stability with low-speed body control.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2022
• In the midst of these scenes, which were recounted almost in real time, Knausgaard offered digressive ruminations on, among other things, the nature of death and the work of various writers and artists.
  — Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2021
• Where the letters in the book are searching and digressive, written without expectation of an answer, the interview is a formal, real-time exchange.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Raven is a natural teacher and an easy, digressive storyteller.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2021
• Both direct and digressive, Heti overlays ethical arguments on the narrative of Mira’s life, which is less interesting than the aims of this book.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• People critical of President Trump say that his fragmented and digressive language is strategic, is used to distract us and keep us off balance.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• The reveal of Diane, which happened in the previous week’s episode, initially felt like a similar piece of digressive nostalgia mining.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• Her novel is digressive without feeling showy, sombre yet never maudlin.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• This early work had a digressive form, perhaps reflecting juxtaposed images in haiku.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• This brilliant but digressive opera was treated to a brilliant but discursive production directed by Daniel Fish.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The four episodes of this final season provided to critics take steps toward what seems to be a definitive conclusion, but through a typically digressive route.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023
• And this haphazard collection of setups, stunts and gags has that same scattershot, digressive energy.
  — Ann Hornaday, kansascity, 14 June 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024