discursiveness

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?

That the new season of “Problem Areas” centers on education issues is a useful strategy for containing Cenac’s antic tangents and absurdist discursiveness.

The discursiveness of the drama compounds the sluggishness of the plot.

But these sharp insights are undermined by the book’s exceeding discursiveness.

At the same time, “Westworld” stays true to an ongoing discursiveness that both exalts in and cautions against the creation of artificially conscious beings.