discursively

Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?

But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.

It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.

Barring a few passages where a thematic point is too explicitly made, Lansley writes believable dialogue; his scenes unfold discursively, taking interesting, meandering paths even to expected ends.

She flourishes best, discursively, when she has the upper hand and a very solid line from which she will not be required to deviate.