Sentences with phrase «series of digressions»
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.
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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).
It's clear that the movie is at its best within its deliberately - paced first half, as Carpenter does a superb job of cultivating an atmosphere of palpable suspense - with this vibe heightened by a series of tense subplots and digressions (including the now - notorious fate of a little girl looking for an ice cream cone).
I disagree because, as far as I'm concerned, the whole joy of this book, and for that matter the «No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency» series, is the fact that the plot is entirely secondary to the digressions!
Digression is a common literary technique favored by authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, but outside of the last two entries in the Saints Row franchise (a series Chung name - dropped as keeping a surrealist streak alive in games), it's not something we see much of in either the AAA or indie - gaming space.
The third in a series of exhibitions that examine — in various combinations and with some latitude for digression — women, nature and science.
Selections from Rosler's photo series Transitions and Digressions evoke aspects of ordinary life in commercial districts where shop windows provide visions of society we observe but rarely bother to process.