(a.) Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
(a.) Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the stage, the tolerant, discursive, boulevard theatre in which he had flourished was disappearing.
(2) Chaika and Lambe (1985) counter that it is a speech disorder at the syntactic-discursive level, and not a thought disorder.
(3) The efficacy of using discursively related as opposed to unrelated sentences in elicited imitation tasks is discussed from a pragmatic point of view.
(4) The analysis of their different ways of linking utterances shows difficulties that concern the construction of a common discursive ground.
(5) There were others too, but Sydney and Adelaide commanded the discursive high ground and took shit from no one.
(6) This paper presents a broad discursive assessment of the philosophy and practices of occupational therapy as related to leprosy.
(7) The continuing parochialization of the infantile neurosis to the phallic-oedipal period has been perpetuated in great part by a technical legacy which has tended to restrict reconstructions of the infantile neurosis to the more discursively recoverable libidinal events of that period, and to exclude its preoedipal and aggressive determinants which are more apt to be expressed through the nondiscursive modes of the transference through its acts and self states.
(8) It is a discursive device for summoning the people that you want.
(9) At once discursive and concrete, he only liked "exploring ideas if they were grounded in everyday experience".
(10) Since medicine is itself a discursive formation, a science with both a history, and a future, it is argued that much can be learned by reflecting on the progression of models, or "paradigm-shifts,", in terms of which modern medicine has articulated the human body that figures at the heart of its discourse.
(11) 6.09pm BST Maloney's long and discursive praise at this juncture for Hillary Clinton creates a good opportunity for us to note that Clinton is a likely strong Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 and one of the prickly subtexts of this hearing is that whatever we may find out about Benghazi, it's Clinton's performance that is up for trial and hurting her reputation as a leader could help the GOP regain the White House.
(12) What is striking for those who, like myself, have covered these protests is often how discursive and open-ended they are.
(13) Gary Younge : This did justice to his campaign in the way that the last few days have not It was a battle between the narrative and the discursive.
(14) To change this, several types of individual decision making were characterized, four in the field of intuition (very fast logical decisions, consciously and unconsciously heuristic decisions using special instruments, the deep remainder of intuition which can and should not be the subject of scientific analysis) and discursive (purely logical) decision making as a fifth type.
(15) Against present trends towards the homogenization and the hegemony of one world intellectual "koine," the author underscores the richness contained in the plurality of intellectual styles, discursive paradigms and cultural configurations.
(16) The second was a much more discursive (1,500-word) appraisal of all aspects of US-Russian relations, mostly noting areas of agreement.
(17) The act of conversing, the sense of being in a discursive space, is at the heart of human existence, and prison radio is about carving out a new space for its inmates, not just yearning for the one they've been locked out of.
(18) But Gould was good-humoured and discursive, taking an apparently compassionate view of human nature, and Lewontin, a population geneticist who could show that racial differences are genetically tiny, added credence to charges of racism, even though Wilson hadn't brought the subject up.
(19) Indeed, George Entwistle was appointed precisely because he said he wanted to make BBC culture more open, less command-led and more discursive.
(20) For late nineteenth century women, two significant influences upon their body behavior were: the physical realities of sickness and early death which modified, or curtailed female energy and physical capacity; and the discursive practices of medical experts and scientists concerning the identification and etiology of female ill-health and disease and their agreed upon therapies for assisting women to maintain, or regain their health.
Prolix
Definition:
(a.) Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
(a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But those who have not lost the power to examine themselves will probably find something basically true in the prolix, shapeless study of a futile frustrated wretch, even if they do not get as far as extending much sympathy to him.
(2) Even as they're running way past the climax of the sketch, they're mocking their own prolixity.
(3) Even more than most legislation it was prolix and repetitive, but its bold intention stood out: “to give ... the right to buy their homes ... to tenants of local authorities”.
(4) It has led some commentators to suggest that in this instance he overstretched himself, that he became prolix or, more charitably, that Beware of Pity is actually two novellas of unequal length stitched together.
(5) The plague agent is adapted to the existence on the territory occupied by aggregations of females that manifests itself in the delay of the beginning and prolixity of block-formation periods in fleas.
(6) The interpretation of the words in the detailed and prolix terminology by Andry conveys some of the essential contents of modern orthopaedics, but completely ignores another branch of orthopaedics in adults, particularly its most important source, namely, traumatology of the locomotor organs.
(7) A narrator devoted to the prolix, the comprehensive.
(8) The scientists were unaware of my letter to Congress because they did not have the good sense or courtesy to contact me - or even to contact the vast majority of the scientists whose conclusions I had cited - before circulating to friendly news media their prolix, turgid, repetitive, erroneous and inadequate response to my testimony."
(9) Moreover, the current profusion of plausible theories is unmanageably prolix; it is true, however, that theory must account for the complexity of constant shifts of developmental levels in terms of currently used adaptive devices.
(10) Although its prolixity has caused comment, the name “Justice for men and boys (and the women who love them)”, acronym J4MB, does not begin to capture the surging passions due to add colour to the three campaigns planned by Mr Buchanan.