But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. From Wordnik.com. [“The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Some will call it eccentric in its discursiveness: a better word would be concentric. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review] Reference
If so, you must allow me a measure of discursiveness, as the subject is most wonderful!. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
The poem's discursiveness and large number of derived elements suggest a hasty composition. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
These considerations account in part for De Quincey's discursiveness, but perhaps not wholly. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Perhaps fortunately, Darwin does not always stick to this exacting standard of non-discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
There is no faltering, no hesitation, no discursiveness; the arrow flies swiftly and fatally to the mark. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Roy Emerson sometimes found Rupert's discursiveness exasperating; he never seemed in a hurry to get to the point. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost from the Grand Banks]
It is not that there is more discursiveness actually present in our minds, it is just that we never noticed it before. From Wordnik.com. [General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Three: Point Seven] Reference
In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In peaceful abiding we use the present moment as a reference point for relating to our mind and overcoming its discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche - How to Work with Obstacles] Reference
Possibly the apparent discursiveness may be only the preliminary journeying by which we are to secure some new and startling view of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But though we are tolerant of discursiveness where it affects only the flow of the story, we like it less where it disturbs the flow of the style. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
It does not weary the reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea' and 'nay' of life. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
It cuts through discursiveness and conceptualization to tell you this is the word you need to use, this is the paint stroke, the turn of your wrist, the perfect next chord. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Piver: 3 Reasons to Meditate] Reference
I have used my privilege of discursiveness to step aside from. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
Sterne's sentiment and discursiveness found several feeble imitators. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
But the inspired discursiveness of Mr. Conrad is not to be imitated here. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on My Books] Reference
Such discursiveness was justified by the tradition and by the inherent nature of satire. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
I will not go into the details of that voyage here, much as I am given to discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
For discursiveness, for repetition, for sheer inanity, I suppose it has never been equaled. From Wordnik.com. [A Man of Mark] Reference
Two other stories were used by the speaker, about the length and discursiveness of his talk. From Wordnik.com. [Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way] Reference
But if we frown on such discursiveness, he proudly shows us that the hundred lines are all in rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala] Reference
He followed it up with atmospheric discursiveness that would have worn away an editor's blue pencil. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Made Good] Reference
And this feeling harassed him, increasing the natural discursiveness and inconsequence of his speech. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
English spirit is towards discursiveness and variety, the new French movement is rather towards exhaustiveness. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
But there persists about it a curious discursiveness that reflects upon the power and value of the initial impetus. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
It was familiar without being common - place, free without discursiveness, and it always had in it the note of distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Above all I think it's an audacious experiment, in that it tries hard to prioritize the discursiveness of smell over language. From Wordnik.com. [Now Smell This] Reference
She held a hair-pin between her lips, and a woman can always say exactly what she means when a hairpin prevents discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Stowaway Girl] Reference
All his acquaintances asked after his "nebulous discursiveness" or his "blatant self-sufficiency," and this made him miserable. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference
The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Under this pressure the valet told all he knew about his master's departure, with very little loss of time by reason of discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
O, to match this man's embracing discursiveness! his ardour, his complacent energy, the full strong sound he brought out of all subjects!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
It demands gusto rather than strict method, discursiveness rather than concision, abundance of matter rather than mere neatness of design. From Wordnik.com. [Modern American Prose Selections] Reference
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