She gave a discursive explanation that left them more confused. From LearnThat.org.
Drawing on Ian Hacking's work, Haslanger has referred to this as "discursive" construction. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Metaphysics] Reference
So it seems the adjective the NYT should have used was not "discursive" but "prevaricative". From Wordnik.com. [In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain.] Reference
There's no room for that kind of discursive, descriptive run-on on the Web, where. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
If you just want to talk about "discursive" design because that is what you are writing a book about, then just do it. From Wordnik.com. Reference
We all work on different types of design that are changing constantly, so I guess you could say we are all "discursive". From Wordnik.com. Reference
I mildly call the discussion "discursive," though it would be fair in one or two instances to dub the piece frankly a medley. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Michaelmas, and the New Year, and there hold a kind of discursive symposium on such themes as then and there present themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
The album title speaks to some broader point about how Carey wants to tell his own story and create his own landscape (he describes the trumpet as a "discursive" instrument). From Wordnik.com. [East Bay Express] Reference
This evening, as usual, the conversation was discursive. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
To our taste the story is too discursive and long-winded. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Hence there was no discursive or collative knowledge in Him. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
It is scarcely necessary after that to add that it is discursive. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
Baron Hübner is a more genial, discursive, and garrulous traveller. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Gent., in the extremely flowery and discursive preface to his version of. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
For the author's mind is, in the best sense of the word, a discursive one. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Some lessons might be discursive blind alleys, making their hard choices even harder. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain And The Pig Trough] Reference
No discursive process intervenes; one simply knows the phenomenon as it is experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
I have no better justification to offer than that it appeared to suit their discursive tenor. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Hawthorne and Poe, had a tendency toward a diffuse, almost discursive style, which is not much in vogue now. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Much discursive reading is not only injurious to the faculty of memory, but may be positively destructive of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Any apology for the unwarrantable length of this discursive despatch, would, of course, only make matters worse. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850] Reference
It was long, filling the paper to inch-wide margins on four sides, and written in a discursive, unhurried style. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Review] Reference
Numerous amendments were proposed, much discursive talk was indulged in, and many motions to adjourn were voted down. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
As our symposium proceeded, O'Halloran grew more and more eloquent, more discursive, more learned, more enthusiastic. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Crowley, a young Colgate graduate who worked on Nixon's tiny retirement staff, kept a diary of his discursive remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Now More Than Ever] Reference
Who is more discursive than the Autocrat, the Czar of table-talkers; and whose productions are more charming or wiser?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Interconnectedness is a feature of this book, providing not only one of its central themes but also its discursive method. From Wordnik.com. [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference
As thematically rich as it is dramatically discursive, "Two Trains Running" isn't organized around any single dramatic event. From Wordnik.com. [Of Prophets And Profits] Reference
Probably it contained the substance of his thesis, which, like most papers of the time, must have been very wordy and discursive. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
There must be powerful analytic and discursive ability, combined with a commensurate reach of constructive and imaginative capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
A large parrot was making discursive comment on the whole affair, while a little lame dog seemed to be the most interested spectator. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
The intrepid prosaic logic of Spencer, the discursive boldness of Buckle, the rigid dogmatism of Draper are all engaged in this endeavor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Obj. 2: Further, the knowledge of Christ's soul was in a measure comparative and discursive, which cannot be said of the angelic knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
In it, Moretti forgoes plot to go one on one with the audience, constructing a film that's as personal as a diary, as smart and discursive as an essay. From Wordnik.com. [A Droll Diarist] Reference
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