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But much of what he says is speculative, digressive or maddeningly obvious.

One problem is the digressive nature of debate.

From this point she makes a long series of exotic and digressive excursions on the periphery.

When this chaotic, digressive sensibility works it's because the author has a sharp and playful eye.

The other is a self-consciously digressive meditation on the iconography of the Hollywood western.

These accounts may seem digressive, and they come on the whole from other historians rather than from primary documents.

One name is missing, if the reader can stand a digressive annotation to the annotator.

Unstructured reality, after all, has a way of being incoherent, digressive and tedious.

One result is that home tapes are at best uneven, dull and digressive with a spice of interesting moments.

The amendments introduced are intended to ensure that the Community contribution is not digressive, as originally proposed.

They are an introduction to and an excuse for the second plot - the retrospective and digressive one.

The only weaknesses result from unfortunate conformities to the noir formula and a digressive first act.

And when the movie takes a digressive tour of an enormous mortuary, the metaphor seems pushy.

His style is digressive and colloquial, vesting minimal action in the present frame of the narrative.

Even now it's a problem, as some of the current forums at nytimes.com can be so unruly and digressive that they've lost their intended value.

Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.

A light-hearted history of the vice-presidency, "an altogether amusing, digressive account"

The book is divided into three major sections, orderly but interconnected by Greene's digressive, companionable voice.

But Kaiser's own status as inside media maven also draws him into the digressive settling of grudges.

Rita's responses may be to the pedagogical point, but they are bright enough to create another point, an original one, not necessarily digressive.

Her lessons are whimsical and digressive.

The brothers tend to be a little too digressive and clever for a couple of guys whose stress levels ought to be through the roof.

A huge, digressive, learned, personal, often fascinating book defending Rembrandt's genius, as if it needed defending.

He riffs, and these dizzying monologues can often be recognized, when they finally hit home, as digressive spirals.

And his casual, digressive observations, staples of the brick-walled club circuit, are hardly revolutionary.