| Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places. |
| 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. |
| Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow. |
| In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. |
| Two other stories were used by the speaker, about the length and discursiveness of his talk. |
| His works are full of graceful and suggestive thought, but occasionally suffer from length and discursiveness. |
