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excursus

[ek-skur-suhs] / ɛkˈskɜr səs /


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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

I have no doubt that the comparison of Gil Blas and Don Quixote has often been made, and it would be rather an excursus here.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

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

His commentaries, and especially some of the longer excursuses, contain numerous contributions to the philosophy of religion.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

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




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