excursus

• It was an excursus, the chief benefit of which was that it enabled us to reconsider the balance in our relationship, and to come to a decision about how our case at home was to be handled, while Mycroft and Lestrade were assembling data for us. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
• A very good example was on an occasion when the old charge of "Byzantinism" was flung at the present regime, to which he replied, not by a historical excursus or political disquisition, but by humorously deprecating a comparison of the good, kindly, steady-going, hard-working old privy councilors and other state officials of Berlin with fanatics, conspirators, and assassins who played leading parts at Constantinople during the decline of the Eastern Empire. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
• Our comrades are not strong in logic and philosophy With respect to the polemic excursus, of course, I chuckle over them most sympathetically, and then say how naughty they are! —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• I had thought about voicing the Bard relative to this new theological excursus - something along the lines of "I hope someone will lead the new exodus out of this sauna" - but fortunately I restrained myself. —  open source theology - Comments
• This is an excursus on the topic of "How to get kicked out of church." —  ProLifeBlogs

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