| If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen. |
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| A bumpy discursiveness was always his method's mark, even his forte, but here it shows excessive wobble. |
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| The friend then hastened to assure me that Romney was, beyond all that discursiveness, a decisive leader. |
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| We experience the possibility of living a life in which we aren't continuously bombarded by emotions, discursiveness and concepts about the nature of things. |
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| Our mind needs to be stable, free from distraction and discursiveness. |
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| Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places. |
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| They were as compact as his college work had been Sternian in its discursiveness. |
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| Humboldt had taken immense pains to discipline his inclination to discursiveness, which often gave his writing a certain lack of logical coherence. |
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| The new genre, reacting against the articulate tirades of Classical tragedy, would draw on pantomime and tableaux or inarticulate speech rather than on eloquent discursiveness. |
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| Directed by David Galligan and minimally designed with a revolving door and pink velvet rope, the show could be structurally tighter, but Mr. Jordan's excitable discursiveness is part of his charm. |
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| Writers as differently motivated as Wolfgang Koeppen, Milan Kundera and Saul Bellow have ratified Musil's belief that the discursiveness of the essayistic novel can render more faithfully the contingent nature of modern life. |
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