| In ancient Greek rhetoric, the aposiopesis occasionally takes the form of a pause before a change of subject or a digression. |
| This leads King into an extended digression on Michelangelo's use of nudity, including the evidence that the artist had studied dissected corpses in great detail. |
| The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link. |
| His jokes, his quarrelsomeness and his weakness for digression are a drawback. |
| The plot heats up as lovers change partners, but for long stretches, the author pretty much abandons plot for a digression. |
| But to return from this digression to the general habits of the herring gull. |
