Word: digressional
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To the 9½ million soap followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or...
Digression: A parallel presents itself. Seven years ago for a period of a month and a half, a certain unknown freshman mounted a certain unknown pinnacle in the Yard each evening at 5:20 p.m. to bellow the finest Tarzan yell this side of the Equator. W.C. Burriss Young '55...
Morgan went into a digression about international corporatism as the greatest enemy to individual freedoms, and said he would not defend corporate rights even though they are legally defined just the same as individual rights: "No Supreme Court is ever going to convince me that a corporation is an individual...
In a prose style that combines rich digression with bitter clarity, she told how Stalin played a sadistic game of cat and mouse with her and her husband.
(Their comic expressions are worth a digression--Or two if you have got the time for it: For a laugh they will goggle or grimace or ogle The girls or they will pantomime for it.)