discursiveness
Example Sentences
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It’s a persuasive picture of a working artist, often fretting about money and trying to leverage his connections, and the actor makes the most of Hujar’s amusing, slightly abashed discursiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
That the new season of “Problem Areas” centers on education issues is a useful strategy for containing Cenac’s antic tangents and absurdist discursiveness.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2019
At the same time, “Westworld” stays true to an ongoing discursiveness that both exalts in and cautions against the creation of artificially conscious beings.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018
This discursiveness wouldn’t last, but most of the characterizations would: The sarcastic, neurotic Chandler, too-reasonable Monica, space-cadet Phoebe, and lovelorn Ross are all here, more or less fully formed.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2014
Hence the success of country gentlemen in the House; hence the hearty cheers that follow the rambling discursiveness of bucolic eloquence!
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
