[105] It is one of Dr Owen’s best controversial treatises, being exhaustive, and yet not marked by that discursiveness which is the fault of some of his writings, and bringing into play some of his greatest excellencies as a writer, — his remarkable exegetical talent, his intimate knowledge of Scripture, and mastery of the stores of ecclesiastical history. ❋ Unknown (1965)
Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. ❋ Seth Abramson (2011)
Ambiguity, discursiveness, leaving you with the feeling that you know less at the end than you did at the beginning -- these are the hallmarks of the films of David Lynch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Through your practice you truly see your mind for what it is and become familiar with the vast landscape of emotions, fantasies, and discursiveness that runs through your head all day. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Some will call it eccentric in its discursiveness: a better word would be concentric. ❋ Tim Radford (2010)
It cuts through discursiveness and conceptualization to tell you this is the word you need to use, this is the paint stroke, the turn of your wrist, the perfect next chord. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The music surrounding this sentiment is gorgeous, a languid ballad in which piano and guitar flirt with a jazzy discursiveness that erupts at various points with a whiplash intensity. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But I think the poem by Bunting actually reinforces your remarks on the problems with discursiveness, rather than illustrating the values of experiential-figurative language. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Another way it manifests is a heavy level of discursiveness that keeps us from focusing on the object of our meditation; when our mind is constantly wandering off, our energy is scattered. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
In peaceful abiding we use the present moment as a reference point for relating to our mind and overcoming its discursiveness. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
"With the grindhouse phenom cranking up, it seemed like the perfect time to check in with him and, with his inexhaustible discursiveness and characteristically bawdy wordplay, Kaufman gave a rousing defense of independent cinema, and a critique of the zombie culture that has the mainstream media, who so often ignore him, suddenly scrambling for his phone number." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps fortunately, Darwin does not always stick to this exacting standard of non-discursiveness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With a nineteenth-century novelist's discursiveness and reach, Coe gives us a meditation on the consequences of terrorism, an examination of the post-9/11 political zeitgeist (beneath Britain's apathy one character senses "a terrible, seething frustration"), a satire of everything from book reviewers to modern parenting, and a contemporary version of Anthony Powell's sprawling masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, which he has acknowledged as a model. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Then it is that the intelligent executive type, capable of concentration upon a complex idea once it is grasped, and resisting discursiveness as a drag on efficiency, comes into action. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Sandman is a story about stories, a collection of digressions, a celebration of discursiveness, and The Kindly Ones shines brightest when Gaiman lets go of the plot's thread to pursue another story. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2005)
The [concept] of the [arts] operates as a discursive [construct]. ❋ Lebanesegov (2021)
