Sentences with phrase «long digressions»

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

That was a long digression, but here's the point: focus on the long term value of the business relationship.

«Less a Review Than a Long Digression On Sam Durant's Show At Blum & Poe.»

It was part of a much longer digression that was truncated, and meant as shorthand for a long discourse on water use, intensity of energy used in water, etc..

Not exact matches

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.

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

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).

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.

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?

But being a long and imperfect form, a novel allows opportunities for digression and experimentation that are different from those available in shorter fiction.

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.