"After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it, " she said, adding, almost reflexively, a digression on our culture's preoccupation with weight.

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This seems like a digression, but bear with me.

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Lest such an inquiry be considered a digression from the celebration of wealth that is the World's Billionaires ranking, let me repeat our best reason for keeping such counts: There is a message in the midst of all that money.

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Not long after embarking upon the subject of God and melancholy, for example, Mr. Burton veers into "A Digression of the Nature of Spirits, Bad Angels, or Devils, " which leads into an elaborate taxonomy of evil creatures, including the question of whether some devils "have excrements" or "feel pain if they are hurt, " and whether there can be both good and bad devils.

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So is the 500 a dazzling digression, or confirmation that Fiat is back?

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His life is a vast digression, full of monologues and procrastination.

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Indeed, it's worth a brief digression to underline the findings of the latest survey of Scotland's offshore services industry, published at the weekend by the Scottish government.

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Further explanation requires a historical digression.

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As the tension and the heat inside the overcrowded courtroom built up, Magistrate Desmond Nair made his painstaking way through a summary of the evidence and arguments - with the occasional digression into legal history - without seeming to give prosecution or defence a particular reason for confidence.

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