Nestor in a digression tells him how Epopeus was utterly destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus, and the story of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne.

The great interest with which the important events lately occurring at the Sandwich, Marquesas, and Society Islands, have been regarded in America and England, and indeed throughout the world, will, he trusts, justify a few otherwise unwarrantable digressions.

But a truce to these painful digressions: let me return to our houses.

Good taste will only pardon such digressions as bring him towards his end, and show it from a more striking point of view.

Peter), Martin (the Lutherans and the Church of England, named from Martin Luther), and Jack (the Dissenters, who followed John Calvin); but a great part of the book is made up of irrelevant introductions and digressions in which Swift ridicules various absurdities, literary and otherwise, among them the very practice of digressions.

My mind tended to wander, until I reached the dreamlike "49th Digression: Twelve Chapters from an Exposed Life." Here, at last, we follow a singular character through his nightmarish global travels.

However officials and analysts see this as a temporary and seasonal digression. Last October had seen the key policy rate being brought down to a historic low of 3.5 percent by the Bankfo Sentral ng Pilipinas.

In this essay, I argue that Socrates' digression in the Theaetetus, roughly found between 172c-177d, is directly motivated by the following connected moral claims: (I) that moral judgments are city-relative in the sense that what people hold collectively to be, just, for example, is meant for that particular collective only; (I*) that no city looks for an expert for assistance in improving (or overturning) its moral views, e.g., views about justice are considered simply as views about justice; and (II) that no moral concept has an essence ofits own, which entails that no moral concept is objectively true.

The agreement has been seen by experts as a digression from the 2002 Code of Conduct signed by China and the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (Asean), that states disputes in the South China Sea should be handled multilaterally.

For non-specialists his conclusions are also significant, since he convincingly shows how one digression creates confidence in God's grace by interrupting the seemingly inexorable movement toward judgment (7:1-17), and the other helps move the readers from passivity to active engagement as God's witnesses (10:1--11:13).

Plus precisement, l'auteur etudie dans le roman aussi bien les parentheses, les signes typographiques, que la parenthese, c'est-a-dire la digression ou l'incidente qui est si typique de l'ecriture proustienne et dont elle demontre de facon convaincante qu'elle represente une figure de style aussi importante que la metaphore.

This Vital Digression and Obviam Est production debuted at the Edinburgh Festival.

Meandering around on digression after digression, the greatest pleasure of his live sets are not the punchlines, but the journey he takes his audience on to get to them.