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How to use discursive in a sentence

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I believe that we can understand ceremony as a cosmogony in both discursive and performative senses.
For painting, always a discursive medium, to address the visual language of the computer is a cultural inevitability.
Even more commonly the function is a discursive and indecisive meander through various fields of learning for its own sake.
The editors invite submissions for a new online edited collection exploring discursive, visual, and other communicative features.
The circumstantially imposed corrections refer to the discursive move toward offering impartial, even detached, moral judgment.
The nature of her talent is resoundingly dramatic, distinctly different from the more discursive male laureates.
His discursive poetry touches many factors, thus transforming a linear story into a mosaic of elements.
It's in keeping with the rest of this discursive, stimulating book that Kermode leaves the reader with such a provocative, rhetorical question.
Divisions between illicit and licit discursive morality conditioned everyday discursive practices via offensive and exclusionary practices.
The instrumental and vocal processing is discursive, chatty, and rarely applied to any truly engaging effect.
Occasionally, however, the poet rises above his discursive fray long enough to interrogate the nature of the dispute.
At the heart of the discursive storms around voice and voicelessness, therefore, are African women.
Thus at a more discursive level, the brigade aims to change public perceptions of menstruation.
The discourse analysis undertaken to answer these questions was informed by discursive social psychology.
Discipline, in Foucauldian theory, is a discursive framework by which activity is organised so that 'the correct training' of individuals occurs.
Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive.
There is now a considerable body of theoretical and discursive work on biography as an artistic form.
The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion.
Not all of which moves towards discursive literacy, nor is it meant to be captured solely by semiotics of language and linguistic systems.
Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive.
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Fox-hunting is not the theme, but the conversation is loud, animated, and discursive.
They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience.
I fear that trying to be conversational I have only managed to be unduly discursive.
The old lady began to seem to him a thought too discursive, if not hilarious.
The utterance of that name seemed to recall her from the discursive babble.
If a writing of this kind be not flexible, unpretending, discursive, it has no right to be at all.
It appeared from his discursive answer that she had not much of a name one way or another.
Maldonado was double-handed, either syllogistic or discursive.
For the author's mind is, in the best sense of the word, a discursive one.
In the terminology of Hamilton it is the nomology of discursive thought.
I had not got far into it, when I judged from her looks that she was thinking in a discursive way of me, rather than of what I said.
As a rule, her conversation, though pleasing, was discursive and lacked central motive, but one morning she had genuine news to impart.
The amount of discursive detail in this version is moderate.
Again, let the required nature be the discursive power of the mind.
It was not discursive, not versatile, not apt to generalise.
With one such illustration we conclude this discursive fragment.
Fourth, the Sufis, who do not seek knowledge by ratiocination or discursive thinking, but by purgation of their inner being and the purifying of their dispositions.
Because some audience members are poets who might equally have been giving the talk, the effect is to dialogize poetics itself, to render it as a contested discursive space.
It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space.
During this discursive address Silas had continued motionless in his previous attitude, leaning his elbows on his knees, and pressing his hands against his head.
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