Sentences with phrase «with digressions»

So all they can do is objurgate, obfuscate, try to get you off track with digressions, and use hyperbole to spew «comebacks to your objections.»

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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.

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

But when you're spending $ 26 million and building Windy City's largest craft brewery with one project manager, an engineer and a local construction crew, you're allowed a few digressions.

The Cook's Cottage A blogger from Pune, Maharashtra, delivers spirited, thoughtful traditional Indian recipes, with occasional digressions into global cuisine, packaged food, and culinary economics.

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

That said, I believe the Panthers offense is due for a major digression — even with the return of star wide receiver, Kelvin Benjamin.

Well Professor, if you only asked I could have told you with large pointspreads there is an unbalanced digression when it comes to «off lines».

[A Digression: The official name of this method is called «bedtime fading with response cost».

As a consequence it lacks immediacy or flair; whole entries are turgid or bogged down with lengthy digressions, and overall it feels padded out rather than judiciously edited.

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.

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

But even here he undermines his narrative with flabby, repetitious writing and pedantic digressions.

most of the time, I find myself stumbling through my front door around 8 or 9 p.m., bone - tired from my day, with a hungry cat, husband, and self to feed (before we get into it: Yes, I'm a feminist; yes, my husband often handles the cooking; yes, this is a digression from the point of this piece).

If you see that the topic for the conversation with the girl was chosen unsuccessfully, just change it, without special explanation or lyrical digressions.

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.

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.

It is overlong, overproduced, overscaled and crammed with too many plots, subplots and digressions.

Although it's worth reserving judgment on the disposition and spirit of Under the Dome until we've seen at least a handful of episodes, it's fair to say that the pilot embraces the material's pulpier elements, with none of Lost's nerdy digression or philosophical trolling.

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.»

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.

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).

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

With all the winning digressions and character moments that came before, it can be hard to forget that everything that...

Spectacular and eccentric details fill the frame, and unlike many similar labour intensive enterprises, Fantastic Mr Fox is riven with narrative digressions, single - serving side characters and brilliant throw - away details.

Digression aside, we're not done with what BLE 2017 has to offer.

But with the nonlinear narrative structure and digressions into the personal life of the defense lawyer Michael Nyqvist, the audience is left feeling disoriented at times and quite frankly, even bored.

While this is a true story, including digressions with the twin literary titans of the era in Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West), who were also edited by Perkins, we are witness to the evolution of the friendship between Perkins and Wolfe with a sense of discovery not hampered by any particular expected milestones.

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).

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

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.

Tommy Wiseau got a Twitter account this week to coincide with the release of James Franco's The Disaster Artist, and while it's not as filled with the bewildering digressions one might expect from the creator of The Room, it's still a joy to have him swimming through the digital swamp with us.

The film, which combines hypnotic digressions into visual poetry with bellicose wit and the youthful energy of abandon and excess, won her a Special Jury award for her directing approach at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier in the year.

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.

Small digression: during Schumacher's world championships with Benetton, rivals suspected traction - control - based foul play, but it was actually the compliant dampers that soothed wheelspin.

But given to a kind of declaration - then - digression pattern of delivery, Berners - Lee didn't get many of his other thoughts over with such grace to the audience, which strained to catch his asides in the pell - mell rush of his commentary from the podium.

I have to fundamentally disagree with the reviewer who writes «unfortunately, Smith's subplots are more interesting than the main mystery and the key character gets bogged down in too many philosophical digressions».

- Clare Morrall, author of the Booker Prize finalist Astonishing Splashes of Colour «The characters are portrayed with empathy and care, but the suspense over Jing's fate is lost in too many narrative digressions and an ending that falls flat.»

King deftly establishes this world with many fascinating digressions, including a brief look at the development of existentialism, and implies that the Paris of No Exit was the perfect killing ground for the bold, amoral, brilliant, selfish (and possibly insane) Marcel Petiot.

I'm always getting «flagged» in «make your blog better» programs for using too complex of a sentence format; my (excessive) fondness for semicolons is probably a big part of it, taken with the parenthetical digressions.

But before we slide into a whole new digression of cats in clothes, we'll leave you with what may be the cutest thing you'll see all day: kittens on a slide.

Perhaps most important were W.G. Sebald's enigmatic «prose fictions» — particularly «Rings Of Saturn» — that likewise hover between genres, make play with unreliability, and fold in on other forms: traveler's tale, antiquarian digression, and memoir.

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fWith its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fwith the facts, writing more fiction than fact.

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.

«I originally started this review with a fairly lengthy recap of Nintendo's many past digressions culminating with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which wasn't just a bad game, but also an inexcusably horrid business decision that severely burnt loyal Nintendo fans, even the ones who were too ignorant to realize it.

But despite its outright lack of aesthetic charisma, Gran Turismo 6 triumphs thanks to its relentless obsession with the finer details, an ever - peerless handling model, and a very welcome selection of enjoyable side digressions.

The boxes and title screens bore the legend «A Hideo Kojima Game», the codecs were filled with ever - more digressions on his various obsessions, and by the later entries he'd be inserting himself as a character.