excursiveness

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."

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2007

America is not distinguished as a country without religion; on the contrary, it is blamed for the excursiveness of its faith, for the multiplicity and sometimes for the extravagance of its sects.

The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

There was also observable in his earlier stories a lack of vigor, as if the power of his nature had been impaired by the very process -- which gave depth and excursiveness to his mental vision.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

True, indeed, it does unfit it for baseness, sordid dealings, and low detraction, by lifting it from its low condition, and sending it out in a broad excursiveness.

Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

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.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

National Assembly a message of American excursiveness, overloaded with details, redolent of order, athirst for conciliation, resignful to the

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Karl Marx 1850

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.

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

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.

Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain 1790-1846 Charlotte Elizabeth 1818

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!

Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808

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.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806