And radio is not the ideal medium for Grossman's philosophical digressions.

The overly complicated plot line is often interrupted by philosophical digressions; sometimes the book reads more like a fictionalized treatise on love than a novel.

Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace contains frequent philosophical digressions on the philosophy of war (and broader metaphysical speculations derived from Christianity and from Tolstoy's observations of the Napoleonic Wars).

With philosophical digressions and detailed descriptions of households, court life and the Siberian landscape, the authors of the sequel have tried to imitate the sweep of the original.

It is not, for instance, usually appropriate to begin a paper on an apoptotic signaling pathway with a philosophical digression into the nature of Death.

Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary follows each brief entry with a footnote (often five or six times the length of the main text) in which saints, historical figures, and other topics are used as examples for philosophical digression.

They are closely reasoned, competently written and carefully premised on Supreme Court precedents, with few of the rhetorical flourishes or philosophical digressions found in the opinions of Judge Bork.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme in the philosophical digressions.

There was no time for philosophical digression.

In a philosophical digression, Mr. Grove wrote, "I think Microsoft and Intel have special responsibilities toward the PC industry."