discursiveness

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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

For some theatergoers, though, Nelson’s extreme discursiveness will feel overstretched; how long do you want to stare at even the loveliest, most industrious ants digging their way through the sand of an ant farm?

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

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

Now, 180 years later, the same engaging discursiveness envelops us in the most successful portions of “Death and Mr. Pickwick,” Stephen Jarvis’s formidably knowledgeable, obsessive riff on all things Pickwick.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2015

The first impression produced by reading these fragments, as they have been arranged by M�ller or Lachmann, is one of extreme desultoriness and discursiveness of treatment.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.