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To avoid, therefore, all imputation of laying down a rule for posterity, founded only on the authority of ipse dixit --for which, to say the truth, we have not the profoundest veneration--we shall here waive the privilege above contended for, and proceed to lay before the reader the reasons which have induced us to intersperse these several digressive essays in the course of this work.

It would be thrown aside as carelessly, whenever he should choose to earn his bread by some other equally digressive means.

Integration of load limiter and pretensioner to dissipate the impact of collision has fared well for digressive load limiter.

Wikipedia explains a troll in internet slang as 'a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalising tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

Summary: Paintings become magic portals in this digressive, beguiling novel

At times, Odhiambo's grip on description is loose and digressive, foraying into detail that is heavy-handed, but ultimately, it serves to enrich the world of Ogweyo's Cove, where "spotty pearls of sun peak through cracks in the foliage" alongside the rhythm of house music and East African slang like "bones" and "chop chop."

So meandering, so digressive, so diffuse is Swift's book that it's not just a matter of wondering what thesis it might hold, but of wondering just what the book is about.

Apart from the digressive character of direct payments that we have not considered, the biggest disappointment for us is the insufficient pace of the outer convergence of payments.Slovakia has consistently stressed to the European Commission that the countrys farmers expected the European level in direct payments as early as in 2014, she added.

If occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right.

Nick Harkaway's epic, unwieldy, unpredictable new novel is outwardly brainy and pridefully digressive, and the distance it projects from its reader feels excruciatingly deliberate." DAVID CANFIELD

Yet I don't expect to see anything on those pursuits, however brief and digressive, in the pages of AH.

Brilliant but informal, sad yet laugh-out-loud funny, The Friend is a digressive bumblebee of a novel that alights on aging, death, the waning power of literature and the strength of friendship.