The King came down from Mecca and talked discursively. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The angels do not need to think conceptually and discursively. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
He was walking slowly, after his habit, and thinking discursively. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
Now we have to figure out what to do about the discursively impoverished. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: Disrupting Democracy] Reference
It seems more like an emergent function of what works discursively online. From Wordnik.com. [I’m Obsessed With You Because You’re Irrelevant] Reference
We have internalized these messages and constantly replay them discursively. From Wordnik.com. [Slut Shaming Comes To Twitter: #youknowurahoeif] Reference
And so he spoke, discursively and disconnectedly, a little heedless of his listener as wise old men will. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
This was achieved by discursively commandeering nonofficial versions of the story into the official text. From Wordnik.com. ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference
Philosophy thus secularizes its theological ambitions and becomes discursively cosmopolitan in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
On the other, it is discursively reconstituted through the body, to a new science of the physiology of looking. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
Indeed, that he is able to read postmodernist texts closely and discursively testifies to their intelligibility. From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
It is discursively formed - and discursive formations, the forms of human knowledge, are partial and unstable' p. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Strohm (ed), Middle English (Oxford, 2007)] Reference
Here was a man who told her the history of his lifetime, not discursively, but in fragments dropped here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Meredith extolled the intellect, which works discursively; Coleridge extolled the reason, which apprehends intuitively. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
But through his inward turn he discursively reproduced the very disconnection on which the phantasmagoria was predicated. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
What Crowley heard as "ranting" and "haranguing" could have been simply the way a Harvard professor talks -- discursively. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: The Professor, the Policeman, and the Judge] Reference
Let us look discursively about the city of New York at various periods of her career since the opening of the present century. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Equiano — whether considered in terms of gender or ethnicity or both — is by this point a discursively volatile problematic. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference
If Wordsworth's imagination is a projective lamp, it is discursively homologous with the one lighting up modernity's magic lantern. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Gothic Romance as Visual Technology] Reference
He was frequently but mildly and discursively in love, and sometimes he thought of that girl who had given him a yellow-green apple. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
To engage with artworks discursively is to bring generalisations about a work to bear, placing it in a wider context of associations. From Wordnik.com. [Gadamer's Aesthetics] Reference
And they allowed it to happen because China has stepped up its rhetoric lately and Ma, unlike Chen, refuses to confront China discursively. From Wordnik.com. [The US Speaks on Taiwan] Reference
Let us discursively range over Europe, in further addition to the evidence, which, in respect of Russia, has already been assigned; and, as with regard to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
South Africa is, or should be, is still being negotiated through lived experience and discursively through the media and other forms of public discourse . From Wordnik.com. [Speech at a Sponsors Of Sports Dinner] Reference
From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he lived an idle and self-indulgent life, reading discursively, but not studying the prescribed course. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Only those rules can be considered legitimate to which all concerned parties can freely agree on the basis of universal, discursively applicable, commonly shared reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Equality] Reference
As Said has explicated, the modern orientalist performs a vital function for imperialism by discursively mastering and dominating those peoples and regions under its scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece'] Reference
It would be vain to philosophize upon the triangle, that is, to reflect on it discursively; I should get no further than the definition with which I had been obliged to set out. From Wordnik.com. [Blowing Hot and Cold] Reference
"I know Eastbourne from the inside," said Joe discursively. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning Spear] Reference
He offered the detective a cigar, and kept him for a while, chatting discursively. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories] Reference
"Captain C-- knows this river like his own pocket," I concluded discursively, trying to get on terms. From Wordnik.com. [Some Reminiscences] Reference
Manning leaned forward on the table, talking discursively on the probable brilliance of their married life. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
We chatted discursively and rather volubly for more than an hour; yet we did not touch on anything very serious or profound. From Wordnik.com. [David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales] Reference
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