excursus

Especially trying is Book Six’s 400-plus page excursus into Hitler and the etiology of the Third Reich.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018

Following an excursus into the world of poststructuralist theory at Yale and in Paris, he switched his field to political science and received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s government department.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018

There are graph-like illustrations, circles, arrows, number lines, maps and even an irrelevant excursus about an outmoded text editor called Kedit.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017

At the start of the novel “A Heart So White,” from 1992, the mysterious suicide of a newlywed is followed by an excursus on the nature of marital intimacy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2016

This pugnacious atmosphere of parry and riposte must first of all be allowed for and understood in all the satiric excursus of Martin in America.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

His process involves a series of sketches, long textual excursuses and model-making with his team.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks with notes and excursuses.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

M. Cosquin, in his "Contes populaires de Lorraine," the storehouse of "storiology," has elaborate excursuses in this class of tales attached to his Nos. x. and xx.

From Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

An edition covering the period from Solon to 403, with new notes and excursuses, was published by J. M. Mitchell and M. O. B. Caspari in 1907.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

M. Cosquin in his Contes populaires de Lorraine, the storehouse of "storiology," has elaborate excursuses in this class of tales attached to his Nos. x. and xx.

From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various