Sentences with phrase «of digression»

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 notion of anamnesis, or recollection, is foregrounded in several of the Dialogues, and serves as a kind of digression in a number of others.

First a bit of a digression for the benefit of those of you who've never played one of these types of games before.

Well, there is a lot of digression in here.

Nevertheless, the film focuses its concentration of Betty - Anne's journey, so perhaps this would have been too much of a digression from the aim of Conviction.

The graphical rendering of the numbers creates an impression of a digression that doesn't «feel» as great to me as they conclude.

Anyway, enough of the digression and on to the subject at hand: the January transfer window (sound the trumpets).

Talk of trolling in an interview earmarked to discuss the former GP's bid to be re-elected chair of the Health Select Committee marks something of a digression.

As much as I loved Inglourious Basterds, that film was a series of digressions from the main plot, but this film is actually centered on the story he lays out at the beginning.

I wasn't happy to learn of his digression, but it did make him more human.

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.

A self - described «student in the art of digression,» Jackson holds an AB in studio art from Stanford University and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University.

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.

Looking on 25 years of production, would you «sum up» your œuvre as a succession of digressions, evasive actions with a lack of focus and stability?

If a point is to be found, it is lost in a sea of digressions, irrelevant anecdotes, and useless banter.

The screenplay of «Beetlejuice, «by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren, is so full of digressions, asides and great, undisguised hunks of exposition that there is no room for the development of smooth plot or individual personalities.

There are the kinds of digressions and repetition that one would expect from a master storyteller, the asides adding to the story's interest rather than detracting from it.

But the narrative proves too episodic, and when you move into the final section — with all of its digressions — it just grows stale.

Take It Out In Trade plays like a cross between Russ Meyer and John Waters, full of digressions — at three separate points throughout the film, the main character takes himself on a «vacation» that consist of peeping at naked women through potted plants in front of posters for various far - flung locales — and extensive full - frontal nudity and simulated sex.

My meandering and half - complete run, full of digressions and doubling back, feels as meaningful as the game of a completist, or of a player who skipped the main quest to take a run straight at the end boss with armour and weapons scavenged from the map's darkest corners, or a player who chose to ignore the storyline altogether in favour of unlocking the mysteries of Hyrule's most elusive Shrines, or of a player who simply headed north to see what lay there.

Some of these digressions had been developed specifically for the exhibition by a number of artists and curators, forming a third level.