Word: digressional
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(Digression on discipline)
Though the plot is infinitely complex, the events are not merely strung out in a loose chain. The plot is always alluding back to patterns it followed earlier, answering questions it asked earlier, and suddenly giving vital purpose to what earlier seemed to be pages of merely pleasant digression.
One sobering digression of the film should especially interest American audiences. Greene interviewed a U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, a major, who had been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous...
By this unwarranted digression.
Unseemly Start. For the Zulus, the bloodbath at Isandhlwana was their greatest triumph in a war they had not sought and could not win. The British offensive, launched in 1879, inexorably rolled on to destroy the most powerful nation that Black Africa ever produced. Author Morris has burdened the story...