discursive

How To Use discursive In A Sentence

• 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: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
• 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.
• But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Our mind needs to be stable, free from distraction and discursiveness.
• 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. The Fiery Furnaces, 'Going Away' From Excess
• [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. Life of Dr Owen
• 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. Lodro Rinzler: The Buddhist Gentleman: How to Buy Nice Clothes
• If we're trying to be completely concept-free, with no discursiveness at all, it's just not going to happen.
• 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. Sing Along With David Lynch on 'Dark Night of the Soul'
• What emerges might not be as overt as anger, jealousy or desire; it might be a subtle undercurrent of discursiveness.