| 单词 | digressive |
| 例句 | Another digressive rip arrived in “Cardiovascular,” a piece from the new album built around a pounding-triplet pulse, meant to evoke pulmonary actions. Music Review: Steve Coleman and Five Elements at the Stone 2013-04-24T22:09:59Z At the heart of the debate was a pointed belief that jazz had been stretched to its limits, or somehow diluted, by the digressive forces of free jazz and fusion. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z "As a gallimaufry of the funny, technical-scientific and deadly earnest, Red Plenty ranks as one of the strangest books ever written on the Soviet Union . . . an eccentric delight; absorbing, pleasingly digressive and superbly written." Critical eye 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Meaning plays hide-and-seek with montage in “The Thoughts That Once We Had,” Thom Andersen’s deeply personal, cheekily digressive dance through most of movie history. Review: ‘The Thoughts That Once We Had,’ a Cinematic Flight 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, Collins allows Charlie almost 300 meandering, digressive pages before he begins his tale. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z Indeed we might describe Dickey’s method exactly as he describes hers: Her style is endlessly digressive — she opens up the discussions, moves further outward, interrupts others, and contradicts herself. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Advertisement “There are absolutely times when the book is mystifying and unbelievably digressive, and you have no idea what’s coming next,” he said. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The pianist Robert Glasper pitches his tent at the junction of coolheaded logic and digressive caprice. Review: The Robert Glasper Trio Presents Moody Covers at the Village Vanguard 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Twice, we’re treated to a digressive, informational “Brief History” of minor characters. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z This digressive chunk about Natalie does what Smith does at her best, which is to double back on her reader’s behalf to illustrate anew for us the danger of a mind that’s been made up. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z For the most part, Ms. Laughlin is a negotiator in this band’s songs, a slightly faded center of attention delivering steady affirmations, while around her things get digressive. Music Review: Rumbling and Rambling Amid a Blistering Storm 2011-04-22T21:35:06Z “There’s an incredibly beautiful, digressive, poetic sensibility to Bolaño that we realized we needed to let back in the room,” Mr. Bockley said. ‘2666,’ a Most Difficult Novel, Takes the Stage 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Widespread Panic’s only digressive tendencies hinge on the urgent guitar solos that unfurl at least once in every tune. Music Review: Widespread Panic at Radio City Music Hall 2010-07-25T21:43:00Z There are some thrilling digressive set pieces involving the strange adventures of other characters, a specialty of Mr. Grossman’s. Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The Sea Inside is shorter and in some ways a more digressive book than Leviathan, but bears a clear family resemblance. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z The style will be familiar to the author's many fans: digressive and endlessly adorned, with an alert ear for the shocking pun. Travel books for your Christmas wish list 2010-12-18T00:08:01Z X is a comically, absurdly and finally maddeningly digressive narrator, a human Internet of hyperlinks that lead everywhere but have no real purpose. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking In the first half, especially, Mr. Dodin emphasizes the dilatory and digressive. Review: In ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ the Myopia of an Aristocratic Family 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z But as adverts go, it is spectacularly digressive. Sandi Toksvig – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:15Z “The Passage” is elaborate and digressive enough to pause for a full explanation of how this man landed on death row. Books of The Times: Life After Apocalypse in Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? 2010-06-06T21:22:00Z At nearly 400 pages, “The Passenger” reads at times like a thriller, albeit a digressive, metaphysical one. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Good Place’ and ‘Heston’s Fantastical Food’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z His diaries—quirky, digressive, indiscreet—chronicle his attempts to build cultural relations in a police state filled with fear, corruption and red tape. Love story 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Talk is constrained; thought is ungovernably spacious and digressive. The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore. Week two: dialogue 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z At times, it was as if you could see his digressive impulses straining under his shirt collar. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z This is far from a line-item history of English etiquette, since Hitchings digressively muses on many related topics, such as table manners, which are, he writes, “a means of managing disgust.” ‘Sorry!’ a guide through the thicket of English manners 2013-12-24T21:28:22Z The more I reflected on Hungary’s autocratic turn, the more I was haunted by something Mr. Török mentioned during our digressive conversation in May. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Both are narrowly focused, idiosyncratic and wonderfully digressive. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z There are moments when the slapstick becomes slapdash – it's debatable whether the digressive improvisations based on Ghostbusters and The Lion King are really necessary, and the whole concept may be too cloying for some. Hamlet the Clown?Prince ? review 2011-03-09T19:45:00Z And Mr. Mitchell has also absorbed some of the digressive and contrapuntal strategies associated with Mr. Berne, who was in the audience. Music Review: Matt Mitchell, With Trio, at Greenwich House 2012-08-10T21:26:44Z Acting gurus have been mocked for generations, but improv class is fresher territory, though the stand-up comic Todd Barry once finished a digressive bit by jokingly advertising his Upright Citizens Brigade class on riffing. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z Its digressive structure keeps returning to the 10 but covers a lot of ground, interweaving their story with insights about racial injustice in education or in the unequal application of the death penalty, for instance. It Started With a Kiss. Then Film Scholars Found More. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Even if most of his fiction is already forgotten, his polished, digressive essays — models of mandarin prose — deserve to attract new readers. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The other is a self-consciously digressive meditation on the iconography of the Hollywood western.” DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z And setting such digressive thoughts to music brings rewards: It’s often hilarious to hear the performers give the same weight to every “um” and “ah” as they do to more significant words. Theater Review: ‘Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-23T03:00:48Z But we caught a breeze on a digressive walk around Lady Bird Lake on the edge of downtown. This Is Lupita Nyong’o. Hollywood, Please Keep Up. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The source of this digressive, wending approach and his unwillingness to play by the rules seems, to this reviewer at least, a resistance born of integrity. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Lyrically, there are fewer thistles and minarets and palanquins — and, musically, less digressive excess — than once made up the Decemberists’ trademark style. New Releases From the Decemberists, Hanni El Khatib and Duane Eubanks 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Ambient burbling underscores his digressive rumination on life, love, memory and the imagination. Daniel Kitson – review 2013-05-20T17:05:47Z The movie shows the most heart when the group gets hyped up together, going into long, digressive riffs punctuated with jokes and dance moves, channeling the wholesome playfulness that has kept the franchise so popular. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Review: Superfly’s Revenge 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z This is not a book that wears its knowledge lightly, and the trail is sometimes meandering, littered with digressive pathways and citations. Attempting the Impossible: A Thoughtful Meditation on Technology 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace is best remembered for writing "Infinite Jest," a sprawling 1,079-page opus full of ironic wit and dynamic, digressive prose. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z But even with the lulls and digressive cul-de-sacs, "The Madwoman in the Volvo" is bracing in its witty sociological commentary and its refusal to accept clichéd notions of biology as destiny. 'The Madwoman in the Volvo' offers a comic romp through a midlife crisis 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z It's been variously described as disjointed, digressive, discursive and a "stoopid masterpiece". The best theatre for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z In the years since, his digressive, minimally marketed sets at clubs across the country have often been derailed by hecklers—and, occasionally, by Chappelle himself. Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. Confront a Changing World 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z The Magliozzis indulged in digressive, free-for-all conversations with listeners, who didn’t seem to mind playing the constant straight man or woman to two insatiable clowns in exchange for a soupcon of practical advice. Tom Magliozzi, half of the irreverent ‘Car Talk’ duo that made auto repair fun, dies Drawing on recordings of stage appearances, television interviews with MTV and Charlie Rose, and other videotaped conversations, this documentary is as digressive and, miraculously, as coherent as the monologues that are its principal inspiration. | 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Visiting an Ordinarily Unique Artist 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z Those wits are gone in “The Life of Saul Bellow,” a dry, digressive and oddly stunted biography that seems to have been written less on autopilot than on autofill. Review: Zachary Leader’s ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z “The Idiot,” a hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book, is in many ways the embodiment of this essay. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipman’s sensibility, by contrast, is expansive and digressive, attracted to loftiness and sweep. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z This very much benefited from being more focused and less digressive than the TV plays, and its refusal to find neat narrative solutions pointed the way ahead for Loach’s film work. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Until then, “A Score to Settle” takes a strange, intermittently violent and digressive trip alongside a dying man of dubious mental clarity — in other words, the kind of role that’s bang in Cage’s wheelhouse. ‘A Score to Settle’ Review: Vengeance Is Fine 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But the stories are presented in the subdued, digressive, naturalistic style that is Mr. Swanberg’s hallmark. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z Through all of this, Carmichael’s in complete control of his digressive mind. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z A seated Mr. Corbett often delivered a seemingly straightforward joke that meandered into a digressive monologue. Ronnie Corbett, One of ‘The Two Ronnies,’ Dies at 85 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z This digressive, rhapsodic, trancelike approach illuminates the diverse body of music on “10 Years Solo Live,” a new boxed set culled from a decade of European concert recordings, released initially on eight LPs. Jazz Listings for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Her reminiscences are presented like chunks of diary, but instantly seem so real, you barely notice their digressive qualities. Overlooked classics: Dalva by Jim Harrison 2012-05-17T11:33:44Z You also have the springboard for this wide-ranging, digressive, lyrical, meditative, repetitive and deeply considered book by poet Stanley Plumly. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Immortal Evening’ by Stanley Plumly A personal essayist reporting on his anthropological fieldwork on corruption and hypocrisy, he combines the digressively meditative style of performance artist Spalding Gray with the gadfly relentlessness of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Trump as theater: Mike Daisey's one-man show, 'The Trump Card,' delves into the Donald phenomenon 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z An emphasis on strong plot and the rejection of fiction's digressive powers seems to be the order of the day. Has plot driven out other kinds of story? 2011-07-14T14:49:52Z In this digressive, scathingly funny novel, a middle-aged Spanish man, Joan-Marc Miró-Puig, records the story of his catastrophic first marriage to Helen, an alcoholic from Montana. New Books by Imbolo Mbue, Krys Lee, Gonzalo Torné and Lisa McInerney 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Harvey’s wonderfully digressive narrative is interspersed with news clippings, playbills, land surveys and daguerreotypes, as if to periodically certify that all of this madness is really true. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Though Washburn’s life was certainly interesting, these sections feel digressive and not well integrated. ‘The Sanctity of Space’ Review: Such Great Heights 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z You may not know her name, but Berlant is influential in comedy circles, and her digressive style stands for everything that a scripted autobiographical play doesn’t. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z But once you start to ride with the rapturous, gorgeous, digressive symphony of images and words and music in this film it's completely absorbing and unlike anything you've ever seen. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z Yet, oddly, Ray still felt that the story was “overlong and digressive”—so stubborn are some editors, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. Postscript: Thom Jones 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z If occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right. Review | A hilarious novel about family, death, madness — and math 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z As if in an unwholesome soap opera, McDonagh ranges freely about the city, and Herzog allows his movie a good deal of digressive, episodic rein. Film review: Bad Lieutenant 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z A talky, digressive piece, this anti-death penalty broadside is infused with a jittery hyperactive energy as Loach sought to overcome the staid traditions of television drama. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A long and digressive introduction contains sections of polemic and political generalisation that suggest a rising, multi-tasking writer stretching his opinions a little too thinly. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z The other vocal numbers, including a version of Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday” enunciated by Mr. King, feel similarly digressive, beside the point. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z The tone is talky and digressive; few real characters emerge; one feels lashed to the mast after only 50 pages or so. Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z His style is insistent, combative, digressive, and the conversation occupies more than four hours. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z “True” was released on a label founded in part by Chris Taylor, of the digressive indie rock group Grizzly Bear. Music Review: Solange at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-12-13T23:06:41Z “Atlanta” has always been a digressive series that gets where it’s going by the back roads. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z They sound great, for one thing: concise and focused, with most of the digressive sonic elements folded into the fabric of the songs. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z Ask him a question and his answers tend towards the digressive: long, profane monologues that change subject mid-sentence. Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"' 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Dreyer himself is a charming, chatty narrator with a soft spot for both digressive footnotes and name-dropping. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In 30 brief essays James goes on to tell us — in his most digressive, conversational manner — about the books he’s discovered or returned to quite probably for the last time. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z It can be as serendipitously digressive as his podcasts, or as alienatingly middlebrow as his Wagner documentary, or as mildly informative as QI. Stephen Fry Live 2010-09-22T00:33:00Z In the right hands, the meditative, digressive style can work well. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z She’s sharp and digressive, neurotic and funny, bristling with rigor and wit. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The book’s subtitle, “Anatomy of an Obsession,” nods to Robert Burton’s “The Anatomy of Melancholy,” so it’s no surprise that Bostridge is similarly digressive, learned and idiosyncratic. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Along with his digressive style, this made Sahl the patron saint of alt comedy, but he was no niche artist. There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z “It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane. But it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism,” A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Portlandia’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z By the end of the novel, you may be thinking good riddance - to Nora and her halting, digressive, precious way of thinking. A novel about obsessive love, lies and video 2013-04-29T13:01:34Z "Last Week Tonight" retains its shape, structure and edge, and the freewheeling lunacy Oliver's digressive rants and sly digs are somehow augmented by the lack of in-house laughter to punctuate them. "Saturday Night Live at Home" shows us the honesty in live comedy without an audience 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z She is also relentlessly digressive — one of the truest signs of robust self-regard. ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z His writing is transfixing from page to page, filled with digressive meditations on small talk and social protest, superheroes, terrorism, the art world, and the status of being marginal. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The incidental and the digressive weave throughout the movie in a wide range of touches. Review: “The Old Man and the Gun” Is a Peak in Robert Redford’s Career 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z His style is extremely digressive, each episode a kind of fractal speculation. Serial, one year on: web sleuths keep making discoveries in Adnan Syed's case 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s dramatic, for sure, but in a measured, nuanced, knotty way, like a long, complex sentence with many digressive clauses and a logic sometimes hard to follow. Art Review: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography 2012-09-20T22:48:21Z Her answers tend to be long and digressive, peppered with “hmm” and “interesting”. Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'There have to be consequences for disrespecting women sexually' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Extracting a taut arc of story from Melville’s notoriously digressive text posed another challenge. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z I thank that last category for leading me to Ross Gay’s “Inciting Joy,” a charmingly digressive collection of essays in which the poet ponders life in all its delicious complexity. Fill out your Summer Book Bingo card with these audiobooks 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The plot is mostly conversation, much of it digressive. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on Earth imagined in clear-eyed 'Mountaintop' 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z People love her, adore her work and simply can’t get enough of her digressive awards speeches. Emmys 2023: Drama power rankings 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Filmgoers who ventured outside the reassuring familiarity of an old-school action flick like “Top Gun: Maverick” were likely to feel bombarded with stories that felt bloated, digressive and almost pathologically discombobulated. Perspective | When it comes to this year’s Oscar movies, more is more 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Waltz’s gift for playing not just brilliant but digressive bad guys pays off here. Review | ‘The Consultant’: A deliciously creepy star turn for Christoph Waltz 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Quite honestly, by the time this muddled, overcrowded, tiresomely digressive trip finally crashes like so many post-binge hangovers, Chazelle’s point has gotten lost in a self-indulgent, manically erratic shuffle. Review | ‘Babylon’ is a lavish yet unfocused valentine to Hollywood’s heyday 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Its narrator is typical and its digressive structure representative. A newish David Foster Wallace novella prompts the question: What made him great? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z 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. Review | In Sheila Heti’s ‘Pure Colour,’ the plot is just an excuse for philosophical musings 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “Licorice Pizza,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy, digressive valentine to the San Fernando Valley of his 1970s youth, was far more beloved by reviewers than by the people who bought tickets. Perspective | This year’s Oscar nominations made the art-vs.-popularity divide murkier than ever 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z I approached TV making like it was a novel and really enjoyed the visual world of “Top of the Lake” and the expansiveness of being able to move into digressive stories and things like that. 'The Power of the Dog' topped the Oscar nominations. We asked Jane Campion how it feels 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z This is where the docuseries’s casual, occasionally digressive vibe is most effective, and also where his gender analysis falters most conspicuously. Review | In ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby,’ W. Kamau Bell proves we need to go beyond separating the art from the artist 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z For the most part, though, “The French Dispatch” keeps things on an attractive but shallow surface, with Anderson tossing out inside references like so many candied chestnuts in self-conscious and digressive vignettes. Review | ‘The French Dispatch’ is pretty and playful but with little genuine curiosity 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Spread out over nine episodes, “Maya” is a sprawling affair with intricately worked out action and a digressive plot. New Netflix animated show 'Maya and the Three' has a grand design 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A master of seasoning the driest minutiae with plenty of expressive sauce, he was entirely up to the challenge presented by Wallace’s cerebral, endlessly digressive epic. Do long reads put you to sleep? Audiobooks can be the key to forbidding literature 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The dense work is admirably summarized by Tresch, who calls it "punishingly digressive and lopsided" and "a glorious mess." Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The book alternates between ride alongs with a friend who collects illicit Freon for safe destruction and digressive chapters on the cultural history of refrigeration—a story of narrowly averted disaster. Exploring Black Sci-Fi, Learning through Color, the Cost of Cooling, and Other New Books 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z His engaging, if digressive, meditation ponders how nature’s coding is digital for intergenerational instructions in DNA, but analogue, in brains and nervous systems, for real-time operations. The engines of the Internet, digital nature, and colour from shrimp to cyborg: Books in brief 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z His speech was strong, moving and intelligent — and devoid of any digressive rants about windmills or mockery of disabled people. Joe Biden seizes the spotlight with a simple argument: Vote for me, I'm not a sociopath 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s defining what this film’s going to be: a collection of fascinating characters and digressive conversations, framed a bit more realistically than in “Pulp Fiction.” Review: In 'Cut Throat City' RZA puts a thoughtful, personal spin on action 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z We’ve learned to accept the word salad – rambling, digressive, inarticulate, salted with evasions, distortions and lies – we’re served whenever Trump comes to the table. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's eloquence in the face of arrogance is a master class | Francine Prose 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z A chip off the old block, he hits the same unsubtle notes as the president and hones and perfects his message: shorter, sharper, less digressive and potentially more deadly. Family values: why Trump's children are key to his re-election campaign 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a cheerfully digressive book, organized into chapters that each tackle some fundamental property of the Internet. Review | Inside the unnerving world of Silicon Valley — and how it invaded cyberspace 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Holtz is a wiry man with a lined face, a Brooklyn accent—he grew up in Sheepshead Bay—and a digressive speaking style that his colleagues like to josh about. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The richly digressive plot defies easy recapitulation, but a dream cast evokes our fascination and compassion, never reducing the characters to obvious villainy, or conversely, tin-plaster saintliness. Theater in L.A. this week: Mike Birbiglia, 'Department of Dreams' and more 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z But it’s also a wildly digressive attempt to comprehend the animals themselves. Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Delbanco considered Melville more of a New Yorker than any other American writer, so much so that reading the endlessly digressive Melville is “like strolling, or browsing, on a city street.” Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The title is a giveaway, but these charming, digressive “essayettes,” in the manner of Montaigne, surprise and challenge more than a reader might expect. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He answered my questions lucidly and even embellished his answers with long, digressive stories. I was groped by a man called “Mary”: The world changes but not the Catholic Church 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The novel’s digressive path, with detours becoming main roads and main roads detours, mirrors the writing of it. Marlon James shares truths though the fantasy of new novel 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In fact, the digressive and paper-thin plot is just plain weird. Review: Did Carlos Santana ever imagine this? The Troubies get raucous with 'Santana Claus' 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z They named the podcast “ZigZag” because they knew it would wend its digressive way from blockchain to entrepreneurship to their personal lives and back again. They Left Public Radio to Try Their Fortunes on the Blockchain 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Also, strangely digressive dialogue about certain family members’ enormous, uh, endowments doesn’t quite measure up. Review: It's nowhere near as good as 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' but if you like fart jokes ... 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z 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. Castle Rock is the perfect excuse to start watching Haven on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z And this haphazard collection of setups, stunts and gags has that same scattershot, digressive energy. Review | ‘Tag’ is a fun yet forgettable bromantic comedy with a nimble cast 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But in the local business community, and among officials in neighboring localities, she is regarded as well-meaning but digressive, removed from the hard work of local governance. Opinion | Justin Wilson for Alexandria mayor 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and Honoré's intellectually capacious script doesn't treat these references as digressive or ornamental. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Auden and Christopher Isherwood, and Honoré’s intellectually capacious script doesn’t treat these references as digressive or ornamental. Cannes: Passion and politics merge in the exquisite doomed romances of 'Ash Is Purest White,' 'Cold War' 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Other memories will follow — anecdotes, personal asides, funny or sad little stories within the story — and it can all seem digressive, until the methodical obsessiveness of Murnane’s self-interrogation becomes clear. Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z There are echoes of WG Sebald and Rachel Cusk in this thoughtful, digressive style that swirls together the historical and the personal, but Greengrass’s questing intellect and elegant prose are all her own. Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z If, occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right. ‘The Last Equation of Isaac Severy’: a fun mystery about family, madness and math 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Perl knows so much about the leading lights of Calder’s era, he can be a bit digressive. Four new biographies introduce us to remarkable people 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s not just that he lives on Twitter, he embodies it: digressive, petty, trivial, poisonous and self-aggrandising. Maybe Trump is a kind of cry for help from the Earth, a human flare | Frankie Boyle 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z When a country parson published the first two volumes of the rollicking, digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in 1759, it quickly became a publishing sensation. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Ferguson’s latest book is an idiosyncratic and digressive examination of Scandinavia’s history and culture that combines personal recollections with sometimes rambling conversations with authors, critics and artists, often conducted in cafes over beer and aquavit. Scholar offers insights into what makes Scandinavians tick 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But it’s also digressive; we jump from scientists researching rats in the early 20th century to an exterminator making house calls. The director of this movie about rats has some novel ideas about Trump and filmmaking 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Trump sometimes says nothing while creating the appearance of a statement, littering sentences with inflated adjectives, muddled grammar and digressive clauses that derail whatever meaning his sentence started out with. Smoke and mirrors: how Trump manipulates the media and opponents 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In person, as on social media, Apple comes across as an instant best friend: warm, chatty and comically digressive. The MVP of NFL Moms 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Like his National Book Award-nominated novel “An Unnecessary Woman”, “The Angel of History” is digressive and daring, presenting the existential drama of a single human life. Rabih Alameddine’s new novel explores the ordeal of remembering 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z That character he presents — a kind of whacked-out philosopher who never met a digressive opine he didn't like — has also been on reality shows including, in a turn resonant of late, "Celebrity Apprentice." Gary Busey on Gary Busey: A conversation about his first role on the stage 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Ruminative, digressive, lyrical, funny, sad, sometimes borderline lunatic, these posthumously collected journalistic pieces have all the hallmarks of Wallace’s novels. It’s tennis season, so let’s hear from. . . David Foster Wallace 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z With “Worldwide Underground,” her funky and digressive 2003 album, sales dropped by half again. Erykah Badu, the Godmother of Soul 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z It was a heated exchange, at times cordial, at times digressive, though anything but boring or fruitless. My secret debate with Sam Harris: A revealing 4-hour dialogue on Islam, racism & free-speech hypocrisy 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z His use of quotations is consequently abundant but not digressive, the attribute of a fine narrative technique. How the First Congress overcame huge obstacles to point the way for America 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z I need to stress that the autobiography is really very little about religion, it’s much more these digressive, anecdotal, funny stories. Salon’s Richard Dawkins peace summit: “I am against all religion … I think I’d call myself a lover of truth. I’m intolerant of bullsh*t” 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z In fact, digressive moods may be the most immediate payoff of Whitney’s art. The Persistent Thrills of Abstract Art 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Two months later, the New Yorker published Dr. Freedman’s reply, written in the voice of a comically digressive housewife. Morris Freedman, author and former English Dept. chairman at U-Md., dies 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He’s very much the professor—voluble, digressive, a little distracted. India's 'Plastic Man' Turns Litter Into Paved Roads 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Five years ago, I relegated my own dismissal of Piketty’s work to a digressive footnote at the end of Chapter 12 of my history of supply-side economics, Econoclasts. "Capital's" Corpse Is Getting Unrecognizable 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The series is necessarily streamlined; its story is more linear and less digressive. Game of Thrones Will Probably Catch Up With George R.R. Martin, and That’s Just Fine 2014-03-18T20:24:39Z His book is a sprawling, digressive, exhilarating account of how Von Neumann's machine was constructed, of the people who built it and of what it was used for. Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson – review 2013-03-03T00:02:01Z These remarks, I am fully aware, have been desultory and digressive, but they were designed to be rather suggestive than satisfactory; and experimental knowledge will, I trust, more than compensate you for my conscious deficiencies. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z This accounts for the digressive, irregular, improvisatory manner of his prose. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Sinclair is often described as "digressive", but the term doesn't work, for it suggests a central path from which his divagations occur. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z Rather, it is a kind of tribute to the Hebrew Bible’s editors, who took the legends of their Jewish forebears and wove them into one compelling, if digressive, narrative. Beliefs: A ?Good Book,? Absent God, About the Nature of the Good 2011-04-15T18:10:04Z Thirdly, it is very digressive, distressingly so when you are once interested in the story. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z This index was rendered more useful and indispensable by the very diffuse and digressive style of the work, and by the vast number of its articles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Isabel had not been so digressive and withholding as he had thought. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z He omits everything that demands digressive treatment or collateral statement. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z He devours information and eagerly recycles it, a talker so voluble and digressive that he goes so far as to flag his frequent jaunts off topic. The John Hickenlooper Exception 2011-01-06T14:59:03Z It is in this incidental and digressive way that we get the description of the Gospel in i. 18-ii. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The style is too generally loose, digressive and inexact; dates are seldom given; and discursiveness, verbosity and dogmatism are frequent faults. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z In disclosing this tale to the reader, however, we have no occasion whatever to go through the tedious and digressive process by which M'Lauchlane ultimately arrived at the history of his unfortunate son's fate. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Some description of this singular body, which was, we believe, in a measure unknown to the great mass of the people of the Northern States, will not be deemed digressive at this point. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. In a beautiful, digressive exclamation at the end of the Lusiad, he affords us a striking view of the neglect which he experienced. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Sometimes, and especially in vers libre of an emotional and digressive character, the reader has a hideous fear that he has turned over two pages and got into another poem altogether. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 Exasperating as Crabbe's style sometimes is, he seldom bores—never indeed except in his rare passages of digressive reflection. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In imitation of Sterne is conceived the digressive speculation concerning the door through which at the beginning of the book he is cast into the rude world. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century But I am growing at once prosy and digressive. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis A rule which, strictly speaking, is not outraged by the digressive exclamations of Camo�ns. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem And then she launched into a digressive and rather vague prospectus of its activities and profits. Stubble Brougham made a great speech on education the other night, but it was so long, tedious, and digressive that he drove everybody away. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) The wild diffusion of the sentiments, and the digressive sallies of imagination, would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II She usually told a digressive story about a lost purse, but hitherto had never succeeded in getting to the point, if there was one. The Bishop's Secret What follows is a natural completion of the whole; and, the digressive exclamation at the end excepted, is exactly similar to the manner in which Homer has concluded the Iliad. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Reginald judiciously steered the course through the most thrilling parts of the narrative, carefully avoiding whatever might have seemed to the boy dull or digressive. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The account by Mr. Bancroft is more elaborate, digressive, dramatic, and declamatory, but not so consecutive or concise as the preceding. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Within twenty-four hours I start from hence, upon rather a digressive excursion; and into which the Baron Von Moll and M. Schlichtegroll have rather coaxed, than reasoned, me. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Nani, author of a history of Venice, which, according to his digressive manner, is the universal history of his times, has noticed this affair. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Mr. Direck became aware of a tall, drooping man with long hair and long digressive legs in still longer white flannel trousers, and a face that was somehow familiar. Mr. Britling Sees It Through In his commentaries he rejected the current digressive and allegorical methods, and steered a middle course between free research on the one hand, and blind adherence to tradition on the other. Chapters on Jewish Literature A shrewd and ironical wisdom, gentle and light-fingered and redolent of evasive sentiment, is evoked from these digressive and wanton pages. One Hundred Best Books And yet, I might add digressively, there is comfort in the saddest situations. The Mystery of Metropolisville My narrative was therefore digressive and only roughly chronological. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography But to explain why Mr Carker reined in his horse quickly, and what he looked at in no small surprise, a few digressive words are necessary. Dombey and Son It would be thrown aside as carelessly, whenever he should choose to earn his bread by some other equally digressive means. House of the Seven Gables In his expansive and digressive fashion he can give his characters—especially the older and the more idiosyncratic among them—a surprising and convincing verisimilitude. One Hundred Best Books Our friends themselves cannot admit This rambling, wild, digressive wit; No—not those very friends, who found Their credit on the self-same ground. Poetical Works They were simply digressive, which was to be expected, as elation befogs one's "goal idea." A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography After this digressive prelude, the reader will be ready to hear me announce that "Fanshawe" was a faint reflection from the young Salem recluse's mind of certain rays thrown across the Atlantic from Abbotsford. A Study of Hawthorne "The form or mode of treatment," he says, "is poetic, fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive, divisive, probative, improbative, and positive of examples." Among My Books Second Series Hence the digressive spirit is not mere wantonness, but in fact the very form and vehicle of their genius. Literary Remains, Volume 1 The length of the poem, however, and its many difficult or digressive passages are apt to repel the beginner unless he have the advantage of an abridged version. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived I was simply voluble and digressive—a natural incident of elation. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography The Poet's editors have also been occasionally led to add digressive notes, to clear up points which had been left by himself either dubious, or obscure. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Such minds are generally chaotic and unorganized, as is revealed in the rambling, involved, interminably parenthetical and digressive character of their conversation. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) In the expression of digressive but earnest notions like these, I could momentarily divert myself from deeper and more painful emotions. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story One other remark upon Scott before I pass on from that line of green volumes which has made me so digressive and so garrulous. Through the Magic Door The wild diffusion of the sentiments and the digressive sallies of imagination would have been compressed and restrained by confinement to rhyme. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 |
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