discursive

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Some storylines do emerge from the discursive dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

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

Joe Dunthorne’s discursive fourth-generation memoir, “Children of Radium,” unpacks that move, while wandering across Europe and through decades of family lore.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

Its sprawling a-star-is-born anecdotes seem to find their natural form in the towering performer’s 48-plus hours of discursive, disarming and often gloriously off-the-cuff narration.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt