Anyhow, digressions aside, this guy was completely incapable of performing his job with any degree of skill. |
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However, this general problem of the volume is enlivened by a few apparently illogical digressions and unclassifiable curiosities. |
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Serious readers will value the digressions spread among the condensed descriptions of famous events and brief biographical sketches. |
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Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions. |
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Christopher's digressions into maths and existential questions amplify what is, on one level, a family drama with a whodunnit attached. |
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However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides. |
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Except for a few meandering authorial digressions, the novel maintains a cracking pace from start to finish. |
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He seemed eager to run out the clock as he filled time with digressions and minor details. |
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When read straight through, the narrative digressions take the reader on a meandering path that resembles hypertextual linking. |
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You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks. |
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Scholarly digressions are consigned to helpful appendixes that Roller uses as small seminars for airing points of dispute, as a good many remain. |
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We have always debated these issues freely without the need for such digressions. |
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Therefore he lively mixes chess news with digressions to the world of music, film, art and literature. |
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Go and get yourselves killed with your ethics, with your morals, with your quests for absolutes, with your digressions! |
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King Air operation almost certainly developed into routine practices for the flight crews and were not deliberate digressions. |
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At the same time, it helps to demonstrate that certain digressions from the rules will not be tolerated. |
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This is neither a capricious list nor are its elements surrealist digressions. |
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Brendon's lucid account presents no bill of indictment and plenty of entertaining digressions. |
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Readable: Make sure that the plan has a coherent and logical construction, avoid double meanings and superfluous digressions. |
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The characters' progress full of digressions in which mysteries are never solved is part of the charm of Corto Maltese stories. |
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Much of his poetry is technically weak and diffuse, marred by careless versification, awkward shifts in diction, overblown rhetoric, and homiletic digressions. |
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Each novella in this book unfolds slowly, ambling through expository digressions with confidence. |
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The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture. |
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She's way too excited to tell you about EVERYTHING, and often goes off on wild tangents and digressions just to get out a pretty straightforward tale. |
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As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work. |
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The book is so full of events, meanderings, digressions, legends, conversations, and adventures, that a patient reader will never find his interest exhausted. |
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It would be a shame to leave out some of the delightful asides and digressions that fill the book. |
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This is an authentic confessional, full of self-corrections and digressions and commentary on itself, without ever feeling contrived or artificial. |
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Green spaces are included in this composition, cleverly constructed from an almost scientific logic, and these act as the digressions of a nature that continues to demand its rightful place. |
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His rhymes are jarringly off or disconcertingly exact, and his ragged stanzas vary from lines of one word to lines that meander the length of a paragraph, often interrupted by inapposite digressions. |
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Sallust's narratives were enlivened with speeches, character sketches, and digressions, and, by skillfully blending archaism and innovation, he created a style of classic status. |
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However, don't beat yourself up at the slightest digression, you have the right to please yourself, you just have to know how to manage these digressions over the course of the week. |
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Why ask him to make useless digressions into the humanities? |
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Such digressions could only undermine her credibility and her cooperation with Member States. The mention of a moratorium on the death penalty in the recommendations was inappropriate. |
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Her frequent digressions are more tedious than illustrative. |
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Now in his mid-80s, he is slender and quick, a New York talker, a man of polished anecdotes, long digressions, and strong opinions disguised with smiles. |
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Designed to mimic its theme of cultural overload in its construction, its narrative shape is on the verge of constant collapse under the weight of so many philosophical digressions, colourful anecdotes and other bricolage. |
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Set in a small Tuscan town it puts before us not only the expatriate protagonists but also the town itself, its history, its local residents and their life histories, all interspersed with scholarly digressions. |
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Suspicion is also present for the minuet p.92, even if it is difficult to state that it is not by Weiss, but suspicion because again of stylistic digressions and heavy low basses, not at all in his style. |
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The digressions on France and the charm of French men are all very interesting in this Parliament, but the President-in-Office of the Council must answer in his capacity as such. |
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Sensitive to both the digressions of his own creative process and the sudden appearance of dream images, Danis allows himself be easily led by his intuitions. |
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The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life. |
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The speech is meticulous in details, a common mark of all his extant works, and he goes into long digressions on related matters. |
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Aside from the narrative of the historical events, Polybius also included three books of digressions. |
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The Natural History is generally divided into the organic plants and animals and the inorganic matter, although there are frequent digressions in each section. |
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The work is full of lyrical digressions and autobiographic passages. |
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The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator. |
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Digressions are usually considered a characteristic feature of the antinovel tradition. |
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