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discursively



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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024

But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.

From Salon ● May 9, 2022

It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2019

And his thoughts no longer wandered discursively about him, as on his morning ride along the quays: they fell like fine mists one upon the other in his imagination and formed his melancholy.

From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus




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