| There must be some important enabling mechanism for people to be so discursive about things. |
| Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake. |
| In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents. |
| I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses. |
| Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive. |
| The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion. |
