parenthetic

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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."

From Time Magazine Archive

Returning from this parenthetic remark, we are concerned here chiefly to remember that, as said at the outset, there existed thirty years ago, no tenable theory about the genesis of living things.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

The style is somewhat too pompous, being more that of the orator than of the historian, and containing long and parenthetic periods.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

The most admirable discourses from the merely literary point of view on taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses, with some parenthetic reference to the matter in hand, are not criticism.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George