digressionary

In journalistic terms, "Rebel Armies" is a digressionary sidebar story rather than front-page news.

Lena is the more crucial role, for "Boesman and Lena" is to a large extent her digressionary monologue.

This State Theater of Lithuania production is earnest in its eagerness to be unconventional and unerring in its ability to be digressionary.

The play itself (at the Cucaracha Theater) is a shaggy-dog comedy, the kind of digressionary journey where one flies to Japan solely to catch a freighter to China.

The other day, as we do every summer, my family drove to tiny Waconah Park in Pittsfield, Mass. (Consider this digressionary anecdote the review's seventh inning stretch.)

In the easygoing first act, Mr. Shanley has fun not only with Aldo's digressionary narration and the men's buddy relationship but also with a pair of female characters at a neighborhood lunchonette.

Especially in the second half of the long first act, when the numbers are digressionary and arrive in no particular order, the show seems to spin its wheels while waiting for whatever major plot development will bring on intermission.

Mr. Mardirosian has a clever way with self-revealing dialogue and a keen eye for apt detail, even when he is digressionary, as in his casual reference to 47th Street Photo as "that place on 45th Street."