discursiveness

[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 1965

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 Seth Abramson 2011

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 Seth Abramson 2011

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' 2010

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 2010

Some will call it eccentric in its discursiveness: a better word would be concentric.

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review Tim Radford 2010

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 2010

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.

Susan Piver: 3 Reasons to Meditate 2010

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 2009

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 2007