Equally off-putting, if no less well-intentioned, are Mr. Simmons's lengthy digressions on vegetarianism and yoga.

I knew this was going to be a lengthy digression.

Despite its short length, the work includes fairly lengthy digressions, intended to have exemplary value.

The second letter continued the discussion of ethnography and related the history of Spanish involvement, including a lengthy digression on the Nootka Crisis.

The way these threads resurface to create a larger tapestry makes it much easier to enjoy the book's lengthy digressions.

It was addressed to the Parlement of Dijon, and was written largely from a legalistic point of view, though with lengthy digressions, for example on astrology.

Naturally, there were lengthy digressions about the books Beryl had written and the sources of her ideas.

Such glimpses of Custer are decidedly intermittent in Ms. Barnett's book, which is padded with lengthy and often completely gratuitious digressions that take an almost stream-of-consciousness form.

As the themes of the courtly epic had in the meantime become common knowledge for his German listeners, he was able to avoid lengthy explanatory digressions.

He introduces a lengthy digression on "a character without a name" whose fetish is retarded women.