Word: digression
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...characters’ crimes and the rapid dissolution of the rewards therein stand as an allegorical base for the Bolsheviks, who took power only six years before “The Golden Calf” was written. Through the use of undesirables and thieves, the authors are free to digress about their dream of capitalism’s return. The introduction of cremation to the USSR during this time allowed people to laugh about death, making it tangible and giving death a strange residue; similarly, capitalist thieves allowed people to laugh about socialism...
...clogged by a slow, three-minute outro with life-support beeps and an awful synth choir. Wondrously bizarre electrojam “Robocop” sounds like a Spector production, and it could have been a year-end roundup highlight if it didn’t digress into a lazy rant against his ex.Vulnerability isn’t new for Kanye, who’s explored self-doubt since “The College Dropout.” But he’s still emotionally opaque—animatronic, even—and it’s worth remembering that...
...digress and “download my anger to make room [in my hard drive] for more anger,” so quoteth former Vice President Al Gore ’69 . Or Robocop. Our sports teams are great this fall season—crew placed well at the Head of the Charles, women’s and men’s soccer are both pushing for an Ivy League championship, and football is poised to crush the Ivy competition—again...
...novel is as much an attack on myopic jingoism as it is an exploration of the deterioration of one man’s mind after exposure to the horrors of genocide.“Senselessness” may be 142 pages of stream-of-consciousness thoughts that inevitably digress, but it is far from senseless. These page-long sentences are a haunting mélange of the voices of alive-yet-dead Indian survivors, a song drilled into the head of the narrator, who is eventually overcome by these ghosts of the past. Moya’s descriptive language captures...
...More phrases that should never be used while speaking in class: “to piggy-back on the last point,” “and yet I digress,” and “with all due respect...