Sentences with phrase «a digression»

Musk described the report as «misleading and misanthropic,» saying his comments were a «brief digression.»

There should also be a list of agenda items that get distributed to everyone involved, and ideally a specific amount of time alotted to cover each one to partially preempt digressions.

But that's a digression.

I make this research digression to make the point that real long - term investing success rests more on investment discipline and company - specific research than it does on compelling stories or themes.

Good for you believers, you kept the argument going and trounced the poor digression.

For the sake of argumentative consistency and focus, Maimonides dismisses many powerful emotional passages as philosophically irrelevant digressions.

These are just two of many examples of what appear to be digressions.

Yet, perhaps for this very reason, he can be prone to lengthy digressions and at times he can appear repetitious as he is at pains to show the relevance and impact of his seminal insights on the whole of Catholic theology.

However, this strategy risks not only repetition but also digression.

He's developing an argument about the significance of the doctrine of the resurrection by discussing the logical consequence of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going on a very typical Pauline digression almost as if he's overcome by joy at the positive truth and has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).

It is not, as James Hester argues, a digression from the narrative that brings the reader back to the conflict that might have gotten lost in the irenic settlement of 2.9 - 10.33 The conflict is a negative illustration following what has up to this point been a positive illustration of unity in the circumcision free gospel.

For the reader, the value in this fixation on Rembrandt's relationship to Rubens is that it leads to a historical digression on the conditions surrounding the Dutch revolt from Spain, in which Rubens's father played a minor diplomatic role.

But I'm happy to address the digression.

PR 248.24 - 30 is essentially a digression, which could have been composed when the fourth category was introduced, or later, but it is not likely part of III.2.2 because of its mention of «physical feeling».

Very few are in favor of this an that is a sign that our digression in the painful realities of a PC world are almost over.

He doesn't do that, but He does provide evidences, but we must seek if we are to find truth) Anyway, what I was saying before the digression was, it can easily be argued that the Bible was simply a book set in a real place like the Ilead, but Joseph Smith could not have traveled back in time and given the Maya knowledge of Jesus.

Once again I beg my readers» indulgences in this rather lengthy digression into theology.

It will aid us to estimate what it is worth intellectually, if at this point I make a short digression.

Panentheists of the Whiteheadian and Hartshornean variety have much to offer at this junction (since a very explicit effort is made to reconcile classical theism and pantheism), but considering that position would be a digression from our purpose here.

Alice Walker, in a pithy essay titled «One Child of One's Own,» called her single daughter a «meaningful digression,» and that's right in many ways; if she had borne five children, she probably wouldn't have been writing many books.

At times, Nadar's excessive prose frustrates, reaching a comic climax in his digression on «dynamography, chronography, desnigraphy, hypography, calorigraphy — all the graphies,» apropos of absolutely nothing in an entry on «The New President of the French Society of Photography.»

While activities such as Grace's are relatively independent of Vatican policies — and hence this section could be seen as a digression from the author's theme — the Knights are headquartered in the Vatican and have connections with powerful members of the hierarchy like O'Connor and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston.

I don't like to digress since I don't think we have exhausted the discussion on the subject matter; however, due to the heavy digression on this blog, I would like to address the following statement that has been presented here:

On the rhetorical plane, no textual irregularities that suggest, and eventually prove, the existence of one or many insertions, such as digressions, unwarranted topical shifts, or grammatical irregularities, appear in Process 40.

This is not false, but a digression.

This digression about the cell is relevant because of the confusion and contrary views of the intrinsic value of the fertilized human ovum.

Most, however, see such a journey not as a progression but as a recession or a digression.

I would like to conclude this digression into the history of ideas with the following words which Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1888:

Fallacy Spotter might have called Sam out on an appeal to the people fallacy for this digression.

I know of particular references in the Bible to the first sin, but my interpretations of them would lead to digressions.

I don't think this is as much a progression / digression as just a spectrum of views within the faith itself.

This is a generalization, but I'm seeing a progression (or digression)... a movement from within to without the church.

At the word of the God he casts his net as if to catch the idea of purpose; for nature herself finds many means of frightening the inquirer, and distracts him by many a digression.

In addition, Graeco - Roman writers were well aware of the possibilities provided by the ecthes is, or carefully planned digression (I Corinthians 13 is an example).

There is much digression in both.

But when you're spending $ 26 million and building Windy City's largest craft brewery with one project manager, an engineer and a local construction crew, you're allowed a few digressions.

Most of the food I eat is raw, but amazing desserts like the Chez Panisse Almond Tart make me welcome the occasional digression... even if it's only a mouthwatering fantasy at this moment.

Oh gosh, I could live on baguette and smelly French cheese... Sorry, digression... Focus, Mel, focus!

The Cook's Cottage A blogger from Pune, Maharashtra, delivers spirited, thoughtful traditional Indian recipes, with occasional digressions into global cuisine, packaged food, and culinary economics.

Before we get to these crostini, a little digression: So Zach sings in a choir.

This is a long digression with little to do about the Grizzlies.

Digression over.

Sorry guys for the digression I just had to take this load off my chest.

That said, I believe the Panthers offense is due for a major digression — even with the return of star wide receiver, Kelvin Benjamin.

A quick digression: in the last several seasons, Chelsea has seen the departure of Čech, Lampard, and Drogba, among others, depriving the squad not only of experience but of leadership.

He is renowned around the channel for the opulence of his wardrobe, the breadth of his vocabulary and the frequency of his unrehearsed digressions.

A brief digression: Every team has preseason goals, and most of those goals involve getting into postseason play.

A digression: Adrian has to be played ahead of Hart.

In furtherance to my above digressions, Kroenke has been using Le Prof technical and tactical management know how to cover himself from his lack his not financially investment heavily in the club as Le Prof has consistently delivered Champions League football to Arsenal for 19 consecutive seasons but last season when his technical and tactical nouns to get another CL spot for Arsenal deserted him.

Well Professor, if you only asked I could have told you with large pointspreads there is an unbalanced digression when it comes to «off lines».