discursiveness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

"May I help you to some mutton?" said Barrington, more amused than put out by his guest's discursiveness.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James