as in tangent
a departure from the subject under consideration
the professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus legend
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After all, these are only minutes-long digressions.
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R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
Tristram relates this tale of woe in a tangle of digressions, punctuated with breathless dashes.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Outside of his core group of devotees, audiences didn’t know what to make of its trippy horror, absurdist humor and often frustrating digressions.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
To sustain that illusion, Corbet also sticks with a conventional, unquestioned naturalism, a straightforward narrative continuity that proceeds as if on tracks and allows for none of the seeming digressions and spontaneity that would make its characters feel real.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
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R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
Tristram relates this tale of woe in a tangle of digressions, punctuated with breathless dashes.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Outside of his core group of devotees, audiences didn’t know what to make of its trippy horror, absurdist humor and often frustrating digressions.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
To sustain that illusion, Corbet also sticks with a conventional, unquestioned naturalism, a straightforward narrative continuity that proceeds as if on tracks and allows for none of the seeming digressions and spontaneity that would make its characters feel real.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Digression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digression. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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