| But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. |
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| His characters live untidy lives and often fall into digressive daydreams, so troubled are their souls. |
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| In his strange digressive and allusive biography of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God. |
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| Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony. |
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| Unfortunately, the result is a digressive book of little practical political use to those able to respond tangibly to famine. |
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| You could end up in a frame of mind, a digressive meditation on the dislocation of people or cultures, or you could end up in prison. |
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| What good prose needs, and all too often lacks, is the syntactic dislocation, the rhythmical shifts that only these digressive devices can offer. |
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| However, their more spacey and digressive numbers too often recall a basement-jam band. |
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| He is known to be difficult, because of his love of the Latinate, and his non-linear, digressive, even symphonic, narrative style. |
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| Since 2001, the trend in market share development for the Community industry is even digressive. |
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| As the price per kg is digressive with weight, the rise in Sernam's price per kilo has therefore also been more marked than that of the market. |
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| Maintenance and operating costs in central and eastern European countries may be covered in the start-up phase and in a digressive manner. |
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| Financing of the measure is intended to be temporary and digressive in the maximum level of aid paid. |
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| Since the aid only covers the financial costs of these measures it should be digressive. |
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| It is also accepted that operating aid should be exceptional, temporary and digressive. |
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| Aid will be payable on a flat-rate basis, and digressive for a maximum period of 5 years. |
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| This number is digressive for applications that share software components, hardware, etc. |
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| The above track is marked by a compelling series of track-long drum rolls and fills and a frugal bassline, and is abetted by digressive but nifty keys and fulgent chimes. |
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| The proposed distribution of seats in the European Parliament is based on the principle of digressive proportionality. |
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| Then again, that's a polemical way of describing a work that is essentially digressive in nature, elusive in meaning and more entertaining than it has any right to be. |
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| Thirdly, several other conditions applicable under points 76-83 of the RAG do not seem to be clearly met: in particular, there are doubts whether the measure is sufficiently digressive in time and effectively limited in time. |
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| Establishment of a ceiling and a digressive system. |
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| An endlessly digressive gabber, Schmaltz is a man who'll tell you that a sense of humor means more than intellect and who'll try to gain admittance to a New York speakeasy with his Zenith Elks Club card. |
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| If the intent is ever faintly preachy, this is fluffily camouflaged by the playful chattiness and digressive lateral lunges of his benign, free-associative technique. |
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| The new system applies a digressive school model, according to which during the first two years of their curriculum students must spend 3 days in a company and two days in school per week. |
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| No explanation has been provided by this exporter why this obviously digressive development of the Community industry's free market share after 2000 should not be considered as negative. |
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| In this respect, it should also be noted that, contrary to aid under Article 4 and 5, aid under Article 7 is not subject to a financial maximum and is not required to be digressive. |
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| Along with the de-coupling of aid and digressive subsidy payments, it is likely that crosscompliance will impact substantially on the associated control regimes. |
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| Commission's reply: The Commission has negotiated a new digressive fee structure with the EIB for the management of the Guarantee fund for external actions, on a commercial basis. |
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| In his introduction, he admits to the digressive, unthematic nature of the collection. |
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| As a talky, digressive, and also topic-ridden book, it has none of the feeling of sly inexorability that propels a reader of the early novels toward the promised end. |
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