Silvis: "Though Menzel has formulated an interesting narrative structure to contain Hrabal's marvelous excursiveness, and has invented a handful of striking visual solutions for various scenes in the text, the whole seems soulless.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.] Reference
National Assembly a message of American excursiveness, overloaded with details, redolent of order, athirst for conciliation, resignful to the. From Wordnik.com. [Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte] Reference
And happy man is his dole who retains in grave years, and even to grey hairs, enough of green youth's redundant spirits for such excursiveness!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society] Reference
I acquired that habit of dreamy excursiveness into imaginary scenes, and among unreal personages, which is alike inimical to rational pursuits and opposed to spiritual - mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain] Reference
While they were exulting in this elevation and free excursiveness of mental existence, the prostrate crowd were grovelling through a life on a level with the soil where they were at last to find their graves. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance] Reference
To a singular power of self-investigation and an acute observation of the actions of men, he added great affluence of thought and excursiveness of fancy, which render him, in spite of his egotism, a most attractive writer. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
The failure to establish a reliable temporal axis of linearity and the excursiveness of the event horizon of the film's narrative are necessarily symptomatic narrative structures emanating from this epic complex, of which misogyny is but one component. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
Whenever he seated himself in the chair of rhetoric, or gave an edifying homily on prayer, with such eloquence as rendered the father's admiration altogether inexpressible, he applied for a pair of smallclothes; and if, in the excursiveness of his vigorous imagination he travelled anywhere beyond the bounds of common sense, he was certain to secure a pair of shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
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