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Definition of digressive in English: digressiveadjective dʌɪˈɡrɛsɪvdaɪˈɡrɛsɪv Characterized by digression; tending to depart from the subject. Example sentencesExamples - As film-making, this final monologue feels slightly clumsy, didactic, even digressive; it certainly dulls the film's effectiveness as satire.
- When he's off, he's digressive, roundabout; his stump speeches sit there; his zingers don't zing.
- There's a whole digressive thread just in that, I think.
- 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.
- What good prose needs, and all too often lacks, is the syntactic dislocation, the rhythmical shifts that only these digressive devices can offer.
- Right now he's sitting on my living room couch, taking a haul off a cigarette after a digressive second attempt at explaining what inspired him to do a show about old people, the upcoming Golden Age.
- Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
- His characters live untidy lives and often fall into digressive daydreams, so troubled are their souls.
- They point to hand-lettered reminiscences in the margins about his digressive rediscovery of the country, which took him from washing dishes in a Sydney hotel to membership of an Aboriginal community near Darwin.
- In his strange digressive and allusive biography of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God.
- The moment one begins to unpack the box though, to explain the simplest text, where it comes from, where it goes, one begins to see the parenthetic and digressive manner of imbrication of text and context.
- 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.
- In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, - and at the same time.
- Unfortunately, the result is a digressive book of little practical political use to those able to respond tangibly to famine.
- Not surprisingly, the result is often uneven and digressive.
- It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
- 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.
- However, their more spacey and digressive numbers too often recall a basement-jam band.
- But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material.
- The narratives vary, however, in the degree to which they are linear and in the extent to which they are digressive or resolved, and in the way events are organised according to the rules of psychological and causal motivation.
Synonyms wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble, orotund, expansive, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive
Derivativesadverbdʌɪˈɡrɛsɪvlidaɪˈɡrɛsɪvli This reader devoted to the great writer therefore appealingly begins with his later work, when he is in full, digressively brilliant voice writing about Paris. Example sentencesExamples - Whether digressively or directly, at a walk or at a run, the motion is on the ground and by foot, putting its weight part by part onto the terrain to be covered.
- Even while he appears to be ambling digressively, he sets a stiff pace; there are few concessions to readers wanting assumptions restated or conclusions underlined.
- As if in homage to eclectic early modern works, he includes a wide range of topics, allowing his narrative to lose focus as he digressively follows biographical and historical threads.
- There are stretches where one of his characters speaks or thinks so digressively and apparently irrelevantly that it can be a chore to keep reading.
noundʌɪˈɡrɛsɪvnəsdaɪˈɡrɛsɪvnəs Yet even discounting the frequent abstractness and digressiveness of his writing style, he remains a somewhat elusive thinker. Example sentencesExamples - For all his digressiveness, he constantly selects and shapes, for he ever desires to maintain control over the emotions that he provokes in his reader.
- It appears to be a specially successful job considering the verbosity and digressiveness of the novel of this writer who, though often brilliant, writes in a highly disorderly way.
- He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness.
- Works such as Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy made digressiveness itself a part of the satire.
Rhymesaggressive, compressive, concessive, degressive, depressive, excessive, expressive, impressive, obsessive, oppressive, possessive, progressive, recessive, regressive, repressive, retrogressive, successive, transgressive Definition of digressive in US English: digressiveadjectivedīˈɡresivdaɪˈɡrɛsɪv Characterized by digression; tending to depart from the subject. Example sentencesExamples - Not surprisingly, the result is often uneven and digressive.
- Unfortunately, the result is a digressive book of little practical political use to those able to respond tangibly to famine.
- It is a digressive process that leaks out intimations of personality and establishes a position for the portrait where it does not remain static but finds a more dialogic approach to psychological portraiture.
- His characters live untidy lives and often fall into digressive daydreams, so troubled are their souls.
- The moment one begins to unpack the box though, to explain the simplest text, where it comes from, where it goes, one begins to see the parenthetic and digressive manner of imbrication of text and context.
- When he's off, he's digressive, roundabout; his stump speeches sit there; his zingers don't zing.
- But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material.
- In his strange digressive and allusive biography of Christ he presents him as the incarnation of the overwhelming mystery of God.
- However, their more spacey and digressive numbers too often recall a basement-jam band.
- They point to hand-lettered reminiscences in the margins about his digressive rediscovery of the country, which took him from washing dishes in a Sydney hotel to membership of an Aboriginal community near Darwin.
- In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, - and at the same time.
- There's a whole digressive thread just in that, I think.
- 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.
- 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.
- What good prose needs, and all too often lacks, is the syntactic dislocation, the rhythmical shifts that only these digressive devices can offer.
- 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.
- As film-making, this final monologue feels slightly clumsy, didactic, even digressive; it certainly dulls the film's effectiveness as satire.
- Right now he's sitting on my living room couch, taking a haul off a cigarette after a digressive second attempt at explaining what inspired him to do a show about old people, the upcoming Golden Age.
- Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
- The narratives vary, however, in the degree to which they are linear and in the extent to which they are digressive or resolved, and in the way events are organised according to the rules of psychological and causal motivation.
Synonyms wordy, loquacious, garrulous, talkative, voluble, orotund, expansive, babbling, blathering, prattling, prating, jabbering, gushing, effusive
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