Sentences with phrase «digression in»

But this is a digression in a debate that assumes known values for many unknowns going in, as most climate debates do.

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 %».

They were part of a digression in a talk I gave to the 1970 Exeter conference on children's literature, and if I'd realised then what a powder - keg I was throwing my fag - end of thought into I would have kept my trap shut.

The digression in this nation is startling.

According to Fyhri, the agitation towards the lycra - men represents a digression in the discussion concerning bicycle politics.

There is much digression in both.

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.

At times, the levity and constant digressions in lengthy and frequent footnotes, are plain irritating.

The weirdness, though, comes courtesy of some wild digressions in the plot.

Overall, however, these are minor digressions in an otherwise wonderful drama that benefits immeasurably if you beat down any inclination towards cynicism.

Melotti encapsulated a sort of «musical abstraction» in the field of the figurative arts: «Slowly music has ensnared me, disciplining me with its laws, distractions and digressions in a balanced discourse».

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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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Continuing with your rather odd digression (and worrying failure to grasp the point), but happy to move onto something more light - hearted, the terminology of the British Isles outside of international rugby, that is what they are still called is (quaintly and elegantly, in my opinion) rife with curiosities arising from our colourful history.

Here's a short digression: Notes or no notes, maintaining eye contact can be difficult for those who were raised in cultures that have different views on eye contact than we do in Western society and especially in the USA.

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.

But where the first film's sex scenes, however tame in the grand scheme of things, were integral to setting the terms and tone of the relationship under scrutiny, by this point they're mostly just (very) attractive digressions, while the once - tremulously mentioned Red Room of Pain has become merely another indulgent facility at Casa Grey, not to mention a handy spare bedroom in the event of a soon - resolved marital squabble.

Throwing all known facts into the pot, Strong even finds time for Salinger's burgeoning Buddhist belief in nearly self - parodic digressions featuring a swami (Bernard White) armed with mouthfuls of screenwriterly wisdom.

The film is at it's best when it indulges in it's little digressions and oddities (Vaughn tearing a car apart with his bare hands, Fred Melamed's cameo as a snooty prison guard, Don Johnson's monologues, etc.) Some of the brutality is a bit much, but it's thankfully brief.

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.

At times, A.P. Bio struggles to build a bridge between what's happening in Jack's classroom and the rest of Whitlock, but the performances in the B - plots are so uniformly strong, they practically justify these digressions all on their own.

The premiere is so full of digressions that the plot eventually begins to feel like the real digression, yet by the end of it there's a clear structure in place for how David will be dealing with the Shadow King.

The director's verbal digressions (he's as much a motormouth as his characters are) usually serve purely to establish character depth, most notably in the gratuity debate in Reservoir Dogs (in his next life, Mr. Pink was reincarnated as a mediocre waiter) and the foot massage debate in Pulp Fiction which concludes with the meta - aside, «C'm on, let's get into character.»

(In a pointless digression, Amy Ryan plays his separated wife.)

Working from a well - paced screenplay with many digressions but never a wasted moment, Lady Bird is brought to life by a cast that appears fully engaged in every nuance.

Its seeming digressions aren't really digressions at all, in that they all spin out of Östlund's unifying thesis on public space and personal responsibility.

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

The storyline - involving flashbacks and digressions a-plenty as Kronk reminisces on how everything in his life went to pot - generally comes off as series of loosely - connected episodes rather than a cohesive whole, with the emphasis placed on Kronk's various misadventures (including a long stretch in which Kronk must confront a competing camp counselor).

Anyway, suffice it to say that Sacks is not only no Frank Sinatra or John Wayne, he's not even much of a Billy Pilgrim, and while his blankness complements the passivity of the character (and Vonnegut's essentially fatalistic view of life), it creates a serious charisma vacuum that, in the novel, is filled by the narrator's generous philosophical digressions.

From there, Unlocked follows a routine digression of double and triple crosses as Alice becomes embroiled in a biological attack.

digressions and circumlocutions; the hand - gestures, head - shakes, eye - blinks; the splintered syntax and mispronunciations - under - pressure when he gets flustered... At least you can tell (unlike certain modern politicians one could name) that he's actually thinking as he talks, sifting through evidence and debate tactics and talking points in his head, not just going blank and letting his lips flap.

Frequent digressions to a pair of subplots that eventually pay dividends (an Aussie soap producer in the prologue, a train - obsessed pervert in the body (Geoffrey Rush and Edward Herrmann, respectively)-RRB-, and one that doesn't (Julia Duffy doing her best Joan Rivers), hamstring the momentum of Intolerable Cruelty, miring its little vitriols in sentimentality and farce.

Worse, nobody involved seems to trust the material, so each potentially witty or endearing moment gets drowned in a sea of lazy scatology (possible nadir: Marano appears to have pooped her pants) and quirky digressions.

You can see the Tarantino touch in his pop - culture references, entertaining dialogue digressions, and inspired celeb guest spots (Tony Curtis, Frank Gorshin, John Saxon), but his real contribution is the way he connects to the characters and draws on their backstories while they search for their kidnapped colleague (George Eads).

In this case it's an amateur production, a play within a play that we only get in glimpses of rehearsals interrupted by disagreements and digressionIn this case it's an amateur production, a play within a play that we only get in glimpses of rehearsals interrupted by disagreements and digressionin glimpses of rehearsals interrupted by disagreements and digressions.

We never learn how he got into trouble, but in one of the film's many digressions, we see him make a quick trip to Amsterdam in order to buy a diamond for his fetching girlfriend (Penelope Cruz).

Prince Avalanche has been preceded in the media by the kind of mood music that suggests that it is the film in which director David Gordon Green retreats / recovers from the commercial, stoner - comedy digressions of Your Highness and Pineapple Express to the artistic purity of his well - reviewed first films, George Washington and All the Real Girls.