excursus

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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

Beyond this ground of certainty, we may indulge in a little excursus into lingual affinities of wide range.

From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John