Sentences with phrase «digression about»

Mason compares some of the rules to those about the use of signatures on rubber stamps, with a lengthy digression about the use of seals in Japanese law and practice.

Any digression about the reason why I'm asking the question could appear as a way of not answering....

When he asked Crichton why he thought he knew better than every single expert and governmental body to have examined the field, Crichton's response was a long and meandering digression about the history of the study — not a defense of his own presumptuous anti-intellectualism.

Or a brief digression about the technique of actors when reading Romeo and Juliet or Death of a Salesman?

Somehow a conversation about moving on this week's show turns into a digression about sippy cups where Evan shares why he needs them.

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

Sunny's Nights is a warm - hearted book, bogged down only by the decline in interest when Sultan pursues any of the multiple digressions about his own biography — not completely uninteresting but still a drop - off from the mercurial Sunny Balzano.

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.

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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).

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

Steve: And one of the great things about the book is that it goes off on a lot of digressions as you just did, because you really do need a background in the entire history of physics, to a certain degree, to understand string theory, even at a relatively rudimentary level.

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 has a sagelike quality, spinning yarns about a woman on trial for murdering her husband or invoking Euclid to make moral sense of how to handle the Confederate delegation en route to Washington, using these ostensible digressions to illuminate truths he presents as self - evident.

The film's greatest influence came through the screenplay, by Rafelson and Carole Eastman; it allowed detours and digressions, cared more about behavior than plot, ended in a way and tone that could not have been guessed from its beginning.

Martin, Billy, and Hans go on the run from Charlie and his goons, but the plot is more about its delightful digressions than its through line.

But then, it's my head we're talking about, so I'm probably inclined to think my digressions and free - associations are interesting, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much time mucking about with them.

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.

As a teacher, I know that the cafeteria can be a place of chaos, of social digression, a place teachers fear when they pick up their class and hear about all the bad things that have happened.

Digressions are the hallmark — Wait, you're telling me I never told you about the time your grandmother's brother Geista showed up in a long black limo to the wedding and your aunt thought he was in the Mafia?

I mean the author has to take a whole chapter's worth of digression to just natter on about the common aspects of life in Nantucket.

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto a $ 1.5 million Helen Frankenthaler painting during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts — as well as a digression into the life of Hassel, a Danish writer of pulp combat fiction who drove a German Panzer tank during the war.

The paper also makes a bit of a digression in pointing out the erroneous and irresponsible assertion by Dick Lindzen that «about 98 % of the natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapour and stratiform clouds withCO2 contributing less than 2 %».

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

That was a completely goofy digression, but, tell us more about the practice that you have today.

It sounds nice, and then we had a digression from this table to a reload for beers and then I remember something about ping pong.

Fascinating digression — but what about the original questions: can one have symbolic damages in an era of proportionality, and do the costs of running the court system form a legitimate part of a calculation of proportionality?

He also talked about the library experience as an analogue of «being alone at play in the presence of the mother,» and also mentioned that «digression is the sunshine of narrative».

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