Word: digressional
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TO ALL YOU POOR, unenlightened souls who still believe that the best expression of the English language is that style set by such medievalists as D.H. Lawrence and Kingsley Amis, prepare yourselves for a somewhat astonishing revelation. That is, if enlightenment is still a viable concept in this hyper-relativistic...
The crowd seemed to forgive his earlier digression, rising to louder applause than the candidate himself received.
Quietly, Lear recedes as the band of vocal editors suggests fresh definitions: "sensual," "off the nest," "reborn," "glamourized," "well maintained." "Too much like automobiles," trills Lear, shooting across the room like a small comet. At 65, she's delicately handsome: 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs., with a taut dancer...
The source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but...
To that end, as well as for the furtherance of my complete education, I have been engaged in particularly rigorous fieldwork of late which has prevented me from engaging myself fully with the coursework in your class. I should like to interject that my particular digression into this field has...