Garment dismisses himself as variously a " verbal manic-digressive " and " Chicken Little on speed ."
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But its digressive screenplay lacks focus and momentum and is too oblique to connect many of the dots between its characters and their behavior.
23.
The digressive play-within-a-book is grossly disproportionate to the length of the book, parodying both Sophocles and Freud.
24.
"Nobody's Fool, " the novel, is a digressive, episodic, character-filled book of 547 pages.
25.
Structurally slack and digressive, the film exhibits a seemingly aimless humor and directorial imprecision that actually appear sharper and more effective after repeated viewings.
26.
While under Willis, he wrote a digressive " Memoir " of Menteath, dated from internal evidence to the years 1772 4.
27.
He joins metaphors for his twin subjects more easily than he does the subjects themselves; but we have a digressive good time watching him try.
28.
In any case it gives the book a digressive, wool-gathering style that Cambridge's 19th-century cosmologists would doubtless have loved.
29.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the picture is digressive rather than discursive _ an illustrated history as related by Wilson.
30.
It is a long solid book, purposely digressive, and there is a good deal of hard slogging before we get to the main theme.
