discursive
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He also discovers the unlikeliest of love stories, making the appealingly discursive, touchingly oddball “History” feel like a bent, colorful flower poking out of the pavement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The prolific, award-winning British author’s novels are often plotless, discursive and frustratingly obtuse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Cross John McEnroe with Ratso Rizzo and you’ll have some idea of whom you’ll be spending this long, discursive trip with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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