Sentences with phrase «other digressions»

Other digressions are less successful, including a whole chapter - long interview with neurologist Oliver Sachs.

Not exact matches

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.

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A quick digression: When I was in high school and we were learning about the principles of flight, we used Microsoft Flight Simulator to model lift, drag, and some other ideas I have since forgotten.

He indulges in melodrama and other genre digressions until his film is as unhinged as a misfire by Brian De Palma.

Screenwriter Kelley Sane generally does an effective job of balancing the various characters and their respective storylines, though there's certainly no denying that some of these subplots are far more interesting than others (ie there's a seemingly pointless digression concerning an illicit relationship between two young Arabs, the relevance of which isn't made clear until the film's final moments).

There are times when «Louder Than Bombs» struggles from a few too many plot contrivances, some better resolved than others, including a time - wasting digression involving Conrad's infidelity and an overabundance of discussions about just how much Isabelle really wanted to leave her globe - trotting life behind to be with her family.

Having indulged me in a seeming digression to this point, you deserve an explanation, and it is this: I was thinking of Mini the other day, and it reminded me of the Kinks.

But given to a kind of declaration - then - digression pattern of delivery, Berners - Lee didn't get many of his other thoughts over with such grace to the audience, which strained to catch his asides in the pell - mell rush of his commentary from the podium.

Citing influences that range from Henry James to 17th century author Thomas Browne, among others, his signature style is comprised of long, clause - filled introspections and digressions.

Perhaps most important were W.G. Sebald's enigmatic «prose fictions» — particularly «Rings Of Saturn» — that likewise hover between genres, make play with unreliability, and fold in on other forms: traveler's tale, antiquarian digression, and memoir.

At other points it comes off like a hyperbolic and unfocused blog entry, with occasional moments of insight buried amid strange digressions about the glories of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, or how Eric Clapton's music is overrated.

Digression aside, games have taken great strides to cater to different kinds of people, much like other mediums expanded.

The film participates in this ethos, simply observing the housemates as they interact with each other, often in fascinating digressions that illustrate Laing's thesis at the time that «madness,» while painful, could sometimes have creative and socially positive outcomes.

(One could further qualify those statements with respect to holograph wills and some other rules about disposition on death, but one resists the digression.)

A good Posnerian digression is worth many a volume by other writers.