Word: digressional
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In a characteristic Hitler digression of great length Der Führer passionately insisted that last May the President of Czechoslovakia "lied" in saying Germany had mobilized, making this his reason for a Czech mobilization. The fact that last week Germany was fully mobilized and Czechoslovakia had not mobilized, Orator...
The business slump of last fall, (the Roosevelt Recession), had by winter weakened President Roosevelt's hold upon Congress to the slipping point. Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids. But the Recession gave Franklin Roosevelt a reason for...
Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire...
In one digression, Wild assailed the argument of Friedrich Nietzche concerning the "slave morality" of Christians. Saying that there was nothing passive about the Christian religion, Wild added, "to prepare one's own Cross is the most virile form of activity."
When Preacher Lee mounted his pulpit he cried, "This is not a publicity stunt." Photographers' bulbs flashed in his face. "What I mean," he continued, "is that there is a real purpose behind my preaching. If it brings publicity which will bring converts to the faith, then all is...