| 单词 | discursive |
| 例句 | It should be obvious that facts can both be unquestionable and only have meaning within certain discursive conventions: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night sight. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The theory of signs originates in the law, and signs are treated as if they speak because court cases are discursive performances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I want to break cinema,” she tells the Guardian at the top of a discursive, illuminating phone call. 'I want to break cinema': is Dick Johnson Is Dead the most radical film of 2020? 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Still others adopt a tactful, discursive reviewing style that allows them to write about books they don’t rate without actually copping to an opinion. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z His songs were rhapsodic and discursive, polemical and observant — often within the span of a single verse — and his voice could shift from conversational intimacy to full-throated passion just as quickly. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z To say that SF has more imaginative and discursive wiggle-room than "realist" art is, while true, also to say that SF has the potential to be a more heterogeneous and inclusive conceptual space. War of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction? 2013-04-08T09:00:01Z But others of a less discursive bent embraced the island’s riotous ways and helped to grant the park its mythic status. Coney Island: The Cyclone! The Hot Dogs! The Art! 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In conversation, Mr. Buress is discursive and easygoing, given to punctuating points with booming laughter. Hannibal Buress on His New Show, Justin Bieber and Hawaiian Shirts 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The “Leonore” Overture No. 2 contains all of the themes of its famous successor but is a little more discursive. Guest conductor Markus Stenz pulls the BSO into an unknown but elite realm 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Sometimes he writes very badly, but when he writes well his discursive style envelops you completely, without fanfare. A brief survey of the short story part 51: Sherwood Anderson 2013-07-24T15:15:19Z The Cage of today is measured, courteous, thoughtful and discursive. Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The new piece, by Hunter and King, is more discursive than revelatory — it’s a pair of monologues that might benefit from a deeper investigation of who Moody’s Jermal and Elliott’s Connor are. Review | These 3 new D.C. shows show why online theater is more interesting than ever 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Among other friends in Los Angeles, where he and Mr. Ford spent an increasing amount of time in the last 15 years, Mr. Buckley’s long, discursive emails were practically events. Remembering Richard Buckley 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It's a learned, discursive, sometimes wayward exploration of a very complicated subject. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z Honestly, the speech could be less free and less discursive. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The white conservative twists the discursive field so that he is the sane arbiter of what is or isn’t racist; everyone else is frivolous and excessive, “recklessly” invoking the most sacrilegious offense. Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It seems that an amalgam of these real-life pitfalls confronted Conant in the telling of her tale, and the effect is a discursive and oddly bifurcated book. War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z What follows is a discursive portrait of the divisions that exist between people seemingly on the same side in a great cause, especially in the shark-infested sea that is contemporary academia. Review: In ‘Relevance,’ a Titan of Feminism Confronts a New Generation 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z In the long run, Suicide’s music, full of discursive mumbles, shrieks and crude electronic pulsations, earned great respect. Popcast: Dissecting the Legacy of Alan Vega and Suicide 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z When a project like Lipsky's is conceived in such good faith, it's better for us to have this discursive kind of completeness, rather than the phantom of what could have been given us. Book Review: David Foster Wallace Biography 2010-04-14T13:25:00Z And Mr. Meaney is superb in finding the harsh love for his son that fuels the extended discursive dialogue of the second act. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z But his authority in this discursive, elusive music was palpable. Hilary Hahn’s most welcome return with her hometown Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z This 1958 debut feature from Louis Malle is also laced with the self-consciousness of the then-budding French New Wave, with a discursive plot, offhand references to French colonialism and a stylish Miles Davis score. Movie Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the drummer Chad Taylor both improvise in a way that runs rampant and discursive, but their music stays firmly centered in their bodies. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Proudly discursive, the movie does not hesitate to devote long stretches of screen time to a trust-building class or to an author’s reading. Film Series in NYC This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Ball: You're so right: the format of the Oscars ceremony is so turgid, so lavish, so ridiculously discursive, that it can basically make anyone look nervous and flat. Oscar's Rumblr: We React to the Academy Awards 2010-03-08T20:23:00Z “This Is What You Did” tops her banjo with startling interjections: a hopscotching electric guitar, trilling and discursive saxophones, aggressive bits of drumming, vocal harmonies. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The chipper and discursive playing of Mr. Knuffke, a cornetist, has never sounded more alive than it did on “Cherryco,” a record out last year celebrating Don Cherry’s legacy. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z After a savage climax, a slow, occasionally discursive string threnody takes over, during which the brass intrusions gradually lose some ferocity and the music moves towards a tentative nobility. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z Boil it all together, and Mr. Sun’s playing develops an identity of its own, equal parts direct and discursive. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Given that group's famously aggressive sound, going "super-whimsical" with discursive arrangements and shifting time signatures constituted a radical approach, Martians said. Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians widen the Internet's connection with 'Ego Death' 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z It's been variously described as disjointed, digressive, discursive and a "stoopid masterpiece". The best theatre for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z He was discursive but never wasteful, creating a need for more and leaving phrases meaningfully unfinished; his solo on Monk’s “Trinkle Tinkle” made you not want to breathe until it was done. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z It can help counteract some of the discursive operations of power limiting marginalized people's ability to exercise their sexual agency. Using pornography to rewrite the script for consent 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z A bit discursive, it is not one of Strauss’s most memorable creations. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-14T22:10:53Z To Ms. Tuvel’s critics, the paper, despite her declarations of support for transgender rights, contained “egregious levels of liberal white ignorance and discursive transmisogynistic violence,” as one scholar put it on Facebook. A Defense of ‘Transracial’ Identity Roils Philosophy World 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “Drowning Practice” is a book about a dream, and it reads like a dream too: melancholy and luminous, looping and discursive, resistant to easy interpretation. In ‘Drowning Practice,’ a Dreamlike Vision of the End of the World 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z The aphorism, then, is singular and separated—or at least separable, when discovered in the midst of other aphorisms, or embedded in some more discursive text. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He has a wildly discursive intellect governed by a firm, obsessive focus. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Conversations are discursive, guided more by the timeline of the meal than anything else; but within them are sprawling and subterranean dramas that reveal themselves through ordinary discussion rather than traditional theatricality. Richard Nelson’s New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The discursive documentary “North Circular” takes viewers on a tour of the history, music and geography of Dublin. ‘North Circular’ Review: A Musical Tour Through Dublin 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Over a series of nonlinear, discursive vignettes, McDermott illustrates a vision of reality, laid out by the psychologist Arnold Mindell, on three levels: Consensus Reality, Dreamland and Essence. Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z His letters sound more traditionally discursive than Godard’s, suggesting a greater contrast between modernist sensibilities. ‘See You Friday, Robinson’ Review: Dear Godard 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z And there was one major exception to the limited-window format: Mr. Shorter’s long, discursive solo in “Contemplation,” arranged by Sherman Irby. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Because of its discursive, disorganized structure, “Grand Pursuit” is read best not as a primer on the emergence of modern economics, but as a sort of Selected Lives of the Economists. Books of The Times: ?Grand Pursuit? by Sylvia Nasar - Review 2011-12-01T22:20:40Z Mr. Forgacs, 64, created an discursive installation, choosing to arrange the films among different screens, most connected to a place. ‘Letter to Afar’: Pre-Holocaust Home Movies from Poland 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Instead, “Wild Things” is relaxed, discursive and personal, a survey course centering on the writers to whom Handy especially responds. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Sinclair’s discursive, intensely literate prose knits together time and place, drawing parallels between stolen Indigenous land and the Highland Clearances that left his own Scottish forebears dispossessed. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Except that here the orchestra keeps trying to play a sinewy, discursive line, and the feisty piano keeps intervening, provoking and sometimes discombobulating the orchestra. An Appraisal: Elliott Carter, Composer and Master of ‘Gear Shifting’ 2012-11-06T22:51:30Z Olivia Block, seated at a table filled with amplified gadgets and electronics for “Dissolution,” produced a discursive field of sound constantly in flux. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z Unlike the tightly focused opening section, the bulk of the novel is discursive and nostalgic — sometimes excessively so. Book review: ‘High as the Horses’ Bridles,’ by Scott Cheshire This nonprofit art center is part of the California College of the Arts, and leans heavily on the pedagogical, the participatory and the discursive. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Throughout, Rolin exhibits a light touch with many discursive asides to ensure the darkness of his story doesn’t swallow up the reader. 'Stalin's Meteorologist' illustrates the life and idealism in the under a dictatorship 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The essay “Now We Are Five” poignantly discusses, in Mr. Sedaris’s familiarly discursive way, the suicide of his troubled sister, Tiffany. David Sedaris Leaves His Audiences Weeping. And Still Wanting More. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Tabloid,” like his previous films, consists largely of long, discursive conversations — in effect monologues directed at an unseen, mostly unheard interlocutor. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z The epochal status of the event, at any rate, illustrates the discursive mechanisms by which the “origin of a technical fact” comes into being, to use the words of the historian of science Ludwik Fleck. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z Or “by” César Franck, whose 1st chorale in E Major got a somewhat rambling, discursive performance? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Her slim, discursive, minor yet charming new one, “The Vulnerables,” is no exception. In the Early Days of Lockdown, a Writer Considers a Perplexing Age 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z What do you think it is about your show, or maybe about podcasting in general, that allows for that kind of personal, discursive storytelling? A Song No One Remembered. A Podcast That’s Hard to Forget. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Terence Rattigan’s “Separate Tables,” two one-acts cobbled into one evening at Theatre 40, is a prime example of 1950s theater at its most retro: chatty, discursive and often busy to a fault. 1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He’s discursive, suave, inhumanly cool, confident, superior, deadpan, sinister, patronizing and asexual. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Some tunes are withdrawn, almost static; one, “Get Dressed,” is discursive and funky, as if Grant Green were playing for dancers against a James Brown groove in a small club. Chicago and Jazz at Play, Ideally 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z More important than our discursive accomplishments, we showed what an independent, citizen-led social movement for equality and democracy could look like in America. Student activism, reborn 2012-05-21T12:54:00Z Talking with the actor Josh Radnor, now starring Off Broadway in “The Babylon Line,” is a discursive experience, his conversation peppered with enthusiastic references to books, films and music. Surfing and Sondheim: What’s on Josh Radnor’s Mind 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z An intimate, discursive inquiry into religious belief that opens to include questions about cinema, the movie is largely set within the perimeters of the astonishing Baha’i gardens. Movie Review: ‘The Gardener,’ Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Inquiry Into Religion 2013-08-08T22:53:11Z Women are a discursive bunch – my former friend and I could talk about almost anything and for record amounts of time. The myth of the BFF and the end of female friendships 2013-05-29T07:08:00Z Though the applause before the end didn't help, Yundi's discursive account failed to generate and sustain necessary cohesion and power. Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z This isn’t the kind of movie that explains all the history, which I know frustrated some people who saw it at Sundance who maybe wanted something more linear and discursive. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z Lattimore went on to record an album of discursive duets with her neighbor in Los Angeles, the fellow Philadelphia expatriate Paul Sukeena, and two luminous drones with the instrumental duo Growing. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Today, Hesiod is known for two works — a genealogical history of the gods titled “Theogony” and what Stallings calls this “variegated and discursive poem about justice and man’s place in the world.” Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Playing with penetrating sound, myriad colorings and commanding technique, Ms. Koh conveyed the shifting twists of this episodic piece, from its discursive lyrical stretches to its skittish outbursts. Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z The show also illustrates an artistic evolution: The “Kin” pieces are like taut distillations of the more discursive presentation of Lovell’s earlier work. An artist refashions the past: Whitfield Lovell’s ‘Kin’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Murphy is a discursive, if not rambling, narrator who includes an abundance of extraneous material, which some readers may find colourful, but others will consider exasperating or pointless. His prolonged courtroom reconstructions explain surprisingly little. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z As we learn, Homer structures these lessons distinctively – often in a discursive, circular narrative style. Review | Daniel Mendelsohn’s ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ is a master class in criticism 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z You don’t get the discursive specifics of real life. Art Review: What the Peripatetic Picasso Kept in His Closets 2011-03-10T23:11:06Z The sensibility at work is more discursive, literary, even symbolist. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z Berliner served as an editorial adviser for “The Russian Woodpecker,” a fascinating history of Soviet spycraft that mashes up traditional exposé with discursive mood and tone. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He is witty and discursive, punctuating his stories with wild-eyed grins, exaggerated grimaces and more than the occasional lost thread. The Man Who Knew Too Little 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Several veterans of Wilson’s plays returned the favor as they talked about their beginnings: the first time they were exposed to August Wilson and the first time they themselves spoke his discursive, sharp-elbowed, century-encompassing words. From Nosebleed Seats to the Stage, Actors Discuss August Wilson 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Deeply personal and deeply felt, “The Box” is also jumpy and discursive, too restless and searching and funny and angry to settle on a style. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z It is one man’s discursive, blearily epic quest to go nowhere and do nothing. Trouble in paradise: The Beach Bum and a history of Florida noir 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “EVERYTHING is always going away,” Luc Sante writes in “The Other Paris”, a moving and discursive portrait of the city’s poor and bohemian past. Bridge of sighs 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z If this atmospheric and discursive work seems like the start of something larger, it kind of is. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Mercifully, everyone struck form for Scriabin's F sharp minor Piano Concerto, a beautiful if occasionally discursive work dating from 1897, when Scriabin was already a maverick genius, but hadn't gone off the rails. BBC Philharmonic/Sinaisky 2010-07-25T20:45:00Z A prodigy, he began working in his teens, developing a dexterous, discursive, orchestral style. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The concerto is followed by Antiphon, the orchestral piece Widmann composed immediately after it, and which is as discursive and disrupted as its predecessor is sustained and concentrated. Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z It seems he’s also, unfortunately, assumed Wallace’s penchant for obscure verbiage and discursive asides. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z His most famous novel, the fanciful and discursive “The Master and Margarita,” is known to all Russian students, with the more concise “A Dog’s Heart” counting as scarcely less popular. Review: A Surreal Russian Opera That's All Bark and a Lot of Bite, Too 2010-06-22T12:41:00Z “Podcasts have become this really viable and popular form of intimate, discursive experience,” Young says. The battle in your ear buds: The bros of political podcasting and their quest to reinvent punditry 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Novelist and essayist Laurens enters the adulatory fray with this volume, which is part historical chronicle, part artfully discursive personal response and part imaginative close reading of the sculpture’s past and present. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z As short as a line or as long as several paragraphs, a fragment could be potent and pointed, delivering a punch of sentiment without the persuasive padding required of more discursive forms. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z In the spirit of the river, Seal can be wantonly discursive, dragging out episodes beyond their natural lifespan, not least because nothing much happens. Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal – review 2012-07-06T21:55:10Z Mr. Marías wrote in a looping, discursive style that critics often compared to that of Henry James or Laurence Sterne, whose epigram “I progress as I digress” Mr. Marías took as a personal motto. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z This is classic Dyer shtick, evidence of the manic mind that drives the discursive repetitions and restless circumlocutions in his prose investigations. Geoff Dyer is out of his depth in 'Another Great Day at Sea' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z His arrival, he writes in his fascinating, discursive new book, “The Oracle of Night,” precipitated one of the strangest periods of his life. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z This is the central argument — the naked Christmas tree, as it were — in this highly discursive book, which proceeds to hang every sort of intellectual garland and philosophical ornament on its branches. Books Of the Times: ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012-12-17T05:15:19Z “I happen to be one of the most discursive conversationalists on the planet,” she said. Never Mind The Question, Here?s the Answer 2010-11-20T19:34:00Z In cases like this, the perpetrator is a dense magnet, intentionally or incidentally becoming the center of a grand discursive field. The Irrepressibly Political Survivorship of Chanel Miller 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z It is horribly violent, exhilaratingly intelligent, discursive and sinewy – brutal and cerebral in this director’s signature ludic style. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z In person, Ms. Smith is plain-spoken, at once precise and discursive, as her audiences well know. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z McEwan's prose can visualise the wastes of the north so you feel the impossible cold on your skin, but the next second it can be absurd, or discursive, or leap five years in the future. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z But this is not a standard, staid hagiography — it’s a whimsical and discursive look at statistics, passion, fandom, culture in general and baseball culture in particular. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The paintings are not so large or so assertive, but the episodic and discursive arrangement allows one to experience Lüpertz’s work free of the very things he would like it to be free of. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z She hopes to excavate some sort of arc, a scaffolding of her inner thoughts, from these discursive flashes. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Dense with puns, discursive musings and conceptual jokes, his act moves like a one-man screwball comedy in which his silly and brainy sides bicker. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In other words, we live in very discursive times, when language seems to matter more than ever. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Her previous play, “God’s Ear,” seen at the Vineyard in 2008, was written in a similarly oblique, fragmentary and discursive style. Theater Review: ‘Somewhere Fun,’ by Jenny Schwartz, at Vineyard Theater 2013-06-05T02:00:01Z Like a harrumphing, discursive companion on a long walk over tough terrain, his grouchy presence became reassuring. Shipton and Tilman by Jim Perrin – review 2013-03-27T11:00:01Z “The history of reading is also a history of worrying,” Price writes in one of her characteristically elegant formulations, presenting a charming and discursive stroll through various iterations of moral panic. Recalling a Time When Books Could Give You Indigestion 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It is also better than the play itself, which is divided in three discursive sections and goes on and on in increasingly monotonous circles. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It certainly left many readers with the stoned Lovecraftian hunch that the same reality warp that imprisons Chew-Z users also absorbs the readers of the novel, preventing them from ever quite exiting its discursive labyrinth. When Philip K. Dick turned to Christianity 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Writers looking for the secrets of his stripped-bark style and painstaking structure will have to be patient with what is a discursive, though often delightful, short book. Hunt for a Good Beginning. Then Write It. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z “We’ve all seen images,” he said, referring to the concentration camps, “but these images militate against our capacity for discursive thinking, for reflecting upon these things.” In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Yugoslavia was a discursive universe, if you will, wherein the largest object was its freshly minted socialist middle class. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of emotion in this discursive piece, but it was cloaked, here, under too much elegant restraint. Review: “Carmelites” is too cool, in every sense, in WNO debut 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z There are only two works on this program, both of them discursive and ruminative: Thomas’s “Meditations on Rilke,” which had its premiere in San Francisco in 2020, and Schubert’s “Great” Symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He has become butterfly-brained – not, in his case, a term of derision, but exactly catching the way his darting and discursive narrative reflects the lives of his familiars and his sense of empathy with them. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z An entertaining and discursive journey into Dante’s life and work. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This cultural and personal history of crossword puzzles and their fans, written by an aficionado who argues that “it’s hard to imagine modern life without the crossword,” is diverting, informative and discursive. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Smith’s style is casual, discursive, but not collagelike in the current fashion, intimate without being overly personal. From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Pinsky was at a transitional moment in his poetic career, moving from the discursive, coolly rational style of “Essay on Psychiatrists” and “An Explanation of America” toward a more enigmatic mode of questioning lyricism. When Robert Pinsky Wrote a Video Game 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But this is still a delightfully discursive volume for the armchair reader. Why humans love cheese 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But this discursive and repetitive and claustrophobic book is more fully about the mystical experiences she began having as a young girl, experiences she has long been wary of speaking about, perhaps with reason. Books of The Times: Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Living With a Wild God’ 2014-04-15T13:00:01Z I don’t mean massive tomes in general, some 1,000-page books need to be exactly that long; I mean discursive, show-offy books, no matter how intermittently brilliant they may be. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Newscasts and newspaper articles would describe debates among bloggers and social-media users from a distance, as discursive curiosities. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I happen to be one of the most discursive conversationalists on the planet. ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Cher, Fran Lebowitz and More 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z During a lunch interview in Greenwich Village she answered most questions in discursive bursts, quick with her cadences and opinions. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z In the Spectator, Andrew Taylor deemed it "sharp, astringent and humane" but felt it was "a little too discursive to be Rendell at her best, and Wexford is sometimes seems too good to be true". Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-08-12T21:55:17Z Sacks' discursive, revealing memoir chronicles his surprising route to becoming the bard of brain disorders. Oliver Sacks' 'On the Move' a memoir of an extraordinary life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has had a string of unforced gaffes, garble and general disjointedness that go beyond his usual discursive nature, and that his Republican rivals are pointing to as signs of his declining performance. How Trump’s Verbal Slips Could Weaken His Attacks on Biden’s Age 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z More discursive than comprehensive, the film does seem to capture Thomas’ fierce, swashbuckling spirit. Review: 'The Storms of Jeremy Thomas' captures a film producer's iconoclasm 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Every neighborhood deserves such a discursive portrait, such ruthless devotion and such an audacious book. Jonathan Lethem revises the Brooklyn of his youth — and his novels 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I have spoken with Biden a couple of times since he was elected and found him to be sharp, able to discuss policy and politics in the same discursive style he had in prior years. Biden’s Quiet Re-election Strategy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Her topic is humanism, and she’s given us a chatty, discursive survey of way more than the “seven hundred years” of “freethinking, inquiry and hope” that her subtitle promises. Review | Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z "The English department has used this as an opportunity to provide some argumentative discursive letter writing," he said. Worcester school mirrors replaced with 'provocative' posters 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Still, I’m weirdly drawn to the discursive “Endgame,” and Beckett’s meticulous choreography of time winding down. Perspective | In a world on the brink, there’s always room for Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The discursive first act sets the scene, situations and perspectives shifting with uncertainty, as we sense rather than understand alliances. Review: There's less Gold Rush in John Adams' latest 'Girls of the Golden West,' but it's still gold 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Alongside a shifting cast of guest hosts, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller ostensibly focus on a single book per episode, but the conversations are discursive and curious, their territory always expanding. 3 must-listen podcasts for book lovers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z His discursive forays into changing landscapes — whether basketball courts, or parking lots re-envisioned as skate parks, or gardens, or his own body — are sometimes parenthetical or footnoted, but they are never boring. Review | Ross Gay’s ‘Inciting Joy’ is a gift that’s meant to be shared 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Oral compositions offer an opportunity to bring through conventions of your own culture, perhaps including discursive patterns of language and grammar and challenges to standard language ideologies. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Risbridger’s recipes are discursive and poetic with suggestions for how we can savor even the cooking process itself more deeply. Review | ‘The Year of Miracles’ is a welcome reminder to savor the small stuff 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z While “Mercury Pictures Presents” is uneven and downright discursive in many places, ultimately its cinematic scope achieves a grandeur beyond its particulars. Review: Anthony Marra's new novel both celebrates and punctures American myths 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z “Her dedication to artists working with performance, discursive practices and interdisciplinary practices speaks beautifully to some of the priorities we have as an institution.” ICA LA announces Amanda Sroka as its new senior curator 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Unspooling his fascination with the politician produces a hypnotically discursive exploration of assimilation’s toll and its characterological tendencies — namely, a knack for compartmentalization and code switching. The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s certainly true that this short book contains many of his trademarks: discursive and periodic sentences, arcane jargon, endless self-analysis. A newish David Foster Wallace novella prompts the question: What made him great? 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Sure, he has an "imprecise and discursive speaking style" which includes "flights of gross hyperbole" but he's really an entertainer and everyone knew his words weren't meant to be taken literally. Bill Barr's pride gets in the way: Trump's top lackey just blew up his own redemption tour 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Beyond the monotone uniformity of the state’s media, heated discursive battles are being fought. Perspective | How is the war going for Putin on social media? Not great. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z And then Trotter delivered something singular — a relentless amalgamation of story and poem that becomes more cogent as it becomes more discursive. Is There Such a Thing as Black Thought? 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z At work here is a collective disavowal of social responsibility and the removal of political, discursive and economic actions from any sense of the social costs involved. In an age of fascist counterrevolution, our biggest problem may be the death of ethics 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z St. Croix’s discursive style, where moments slip into other moments, doesn’t receive an ideal showcase in ArtsWest’s production, with an opening night performance that was beset with protracted scene changes and multiple muffed lines. A common bond is tested in ArtsWest’s ‘Monsters of the American Cinema’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z And while that can work well enough in the discursive anecdotal format of an audio podcast, it’s wearing over eight hours of television. Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are comedy masters. Just not in 'The Shrink Next Door' 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Its greatest practitioners — Montaigne, Barthes, Sontag — recognized its discursive potential and used it to contend with their own competing ideas. Emily Ratajkowski explores her growing pains in ‘My Body’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In one discursive story about Eisenhower’s travels abroad, Mr. Sahl said that White House press secretary James C. Hagerty grew testy when reporters asked when the president might visit Russia. Mort Sahl, whose political comedy set the bar for future humorists, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Her approach is discursive, yet precise — Proust kneeling bedside on the carpet of a dorm. A Brief Introduction to Philosophy (Through a Certain Sex Act) 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The first chapter is a postnatal depression questionnaire filled out with discursive irony. It's harder to love up close: Claire Vaye Watkins is the new voice of the American West 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z There’s no indication, in the 27 discursive pages of the indictment, that Sussmann was knowingly trying to peddle false information. Opinion | Two miscarriages of justice reveal a sickening disparity 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The tortured phrasing has drawn comparisons to the twisted verbal gymnastics of Cantinflas, the late Mexican comedian known for his nonsensical discursive riffs, often mocking politicians and other figures of inflated grandiosity. Mexico to vote on whether former presidents should be subject to prosecution 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Ellenhorn says that the terms "'breakthrough,' and miracle cure,'" form "part of a larger discursive power in medicine, in which people volunteer to be the subjects of power." Opinion: The mental health industry doesn't know what it's doing with psychedelic drug studies 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “What is of interest to me is why is it so imperative for classicists of a certain stripe to make this discursive move? ‘This is not us.’ He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z So far the think tank sessions seem to have been discursive rather than definitive. Under the radar: Labour's search for direction 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z It is clear when he is speaking from a teleprompter at rallies, and as discursive as his speeches are, he will deliver many of his attack lines on Biden as written. ‘Lock Them All Up’: Trump’s Whitmer Attack Fits a Damaging Pattern 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z But in this case, the kind of discursive mood piece that Coppola has perfected over her 21-year directing career turns into something surprisingly inert and uninvolved. Review | ‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola. But it’s a flavorless dish. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The same Washington Post writer who lavished praise noted his penchant for asking “such wordy, windy, discursive questions” that he’d exhaust most his time in Senate committee hearings. Biden, once an orator, reaches for rhetorical flourish again 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The novel dropped like a bomb on the heavily male world of Japanese fiction, smuggling weighty questions into its breezy, discursive style. Mieko Kawakami: 'Women are no longer content to shut up' 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The rebuilding of Berlin – a long, discursive process in which historians, politicians and citizens debated for more than a decade – was aspirational. Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z In an era of tweets, she speaks in long, discursive paragraphs that weave together personal narrative, politics and her views on social change. Laurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Own Dent in the Universe 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The book is wonderfully discursive, bouncing around on the page like a stereo signal ping-ponging in the headphones. Perspective | In 1964, Peter and Gordon caused a near-riot in Alexandria. Peter’s back for more. 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Yet Putin’s Russia is marked by a discursive, nonlinear quality, full of contradictions for anyone trying to decode the meaning of events. ‘They will destroy you’: in Putin’s Russia, how far can an artist go? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z In almost every situation, their own subordinates reported them or testified against them, actions that should give us hope that our military can withstand the discursive violence the commander in chief is inflicting. Perspective | Here’s what a split-second combat decision looks like. I didn’t need to murder. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z But composing a long discursive narrative, structured in a particular way to advance the story, was, at least for now, completely beyond GPT-2’s predictive capacity. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z When Mr. Biden went on his discursive and meandering answer that invoked a record-player, there were audible groans, and some people threw their arms in the air in frustration, according to an attendee. Top Biden Donors Gather Amid Storm Clouds Over Campaign 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Tall and trim, speaking in clipped sentences, Mr. Varadkar was a stark contrast to the shambling, discursive Mr. Johnson, who rankled some in Dublin by referring to his host as Leo. Britain Once Held All the Cards With Ireland. Brexit Turned the Tables. 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z And this has been particularly corrosive to environmentalism, where the compromises that activists necessarily make take up more discursive energy than the crisis itself. When calling out environmental hypocrisy is nothing but a cynical ploy | Zoe Williams 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z His foray into Spanish notwithstanding, the Texan looked uncomfortable on stage and his discursive, somewhat rambling style of discourse did not fit well into the abbreviated nature of this TV encounter. The biggest takeaways from the first Democratic debate 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z While the book investigates the strange, discursive path of Taylor’s life, it also illuminates the critical role a network of police officers, journalists and politicians played in keeping the image aloft. ‘The Queen’ was kidnapper and a grifter — but her welfare scam made her a symbol 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The Milch I observed fifteen years ago during the making of “Deadwood” was gregarious, physically strong, and prone to riveting discursive detours. David Milch’s Third Act 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The report itself — dense in both language and layout — reflected Mr. Mueller’s caution and stood in contrast to Mr. Starr’s more conversational and discursive style. Mueller’s Silence Allowed Openings for Trump and Barr to Shape Perception of Inquiry 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Two years later, Democrats persuaded Hickenlooper to run for governor, hoping his popularity and discursive, anti-politician style could get them past a national backlash against the party. John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor, joins Democrats’ 2020 slate 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z He could go in discursive directions and then come back. Bob Costas Insists That He Was Not Fired by NBC 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z During Mr. Trump’s 50 minutes of discursive remarks, which were ostensibly to announce a national emergency to build a wall along the southern border, the president appeared to be taking that challenge himself. Trump Follows Familiar Playbook When Confronted by a Loss: Distract and Digress 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Among socialists, he attracted negative attention for discursive essays he wrote in florid, wandering prose. Lyndon LaRouche Jr., conspiracy theorist and presidential candidate, dies at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s discursive style delighted his crowd, though protesters heckled him more frequently than at other rallies since he became president. Trump Takes Border Wall Fight to El Paso; Beto O’Rourke Fires Back 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Three years later, the discursive former college president lost his seat to Rep. Rick Santorum, the hard-charging conservative who helped the GOP take control of the Senate. Harris Wofford, civil rights activist who helped Kennedy win the White House, dies at 92 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z No wonder our versions of the sacred texts should be so interlineated, so discursive, so likely to refer back and forth among other texts—so enmeshed in literary commentary. How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But these biologists believe that there are other forces at work, modes of evolution that are much more mischievous and discursive than natural selection. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Well, it has to be a "visceral" something, because it obviously isn't articulate or discursive or even minimally informed. Pompeo Questions the Value of International Groups Like U.N. and E.U. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z His preferred style of discourse — why settle for a sound bite when a 30-minute discursive argument will do? — has not traditionally made for gripping TV. ‘It’s Premature’: Incoming Judiciary Chairman Warns Against Rush to Impeach 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In the words of the program note, it “challenges individuals to navigate and name codes, contingencies, and layers of memory. It uses discursive pathways to resist culmination, and offers alternatives for patterning community.” The Playful Legacy of Merce Cunningham 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Having this kind of compass gives both writer and reader latitude to enjoy Martin’s numerous digressions and discursive wanderings with the security of knowing that everything is somehow connected to that question. George R. R. Martin, Fantasy’s Reigning King 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The drama tries to personalize social justice concerns, but the discursive nature of the playwriting undermines the effort. Review: A shave and a haircut — and bonding time for African-heritage men in 'Barber Shop Chronicles' at Freud Playhouse - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Even inside the ballroom, Mr. Trump’s Catskills one-liners and discursive riffs prompted a mix of gasps, shaking heads and stifled laughter. ‘I Could Be Doing This All Day.’ Trump Delights in Sparring With the Press. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z If people believe it's impossible to cut through the discursive clutter, they may also believe it's impossible to do anything to stop gun violence. After Jacksonville shooting, NRA’s panoply of lies gets even weirder 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z This is why Twitter exists, apparently: to host a discursive death match. Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z “It was like pinning jello to the wall,” the former May adviser said of the discursive talks. Trump’s tough words for Merkel and May raise questions about his relationships with female leaders 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Its most wildly discursive turns are still delivered with a smartass wink, just one degree short of too clever for its own good, meaning just clever. Oreo: Marlon James on a crazy, sexy, forgotten gem of black literature 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z His dissent was an embarrassing, discursive tirade that might as well have been ghostwritten by Dana Loesch; no other justice joined it.” Justice Clarence Thomas leading the US supreme court? A scary thought | Jill Abramson 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Putin is sure to begin their bilateral meeting with a similarly aggrieved and discursive lecture, with Washington in the role of antihero, committing the sins of hubris, overreach, and disrespect. The Magic Putin Hopes to Make with Trump in Helsinki 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Pauley is a talker with what she calls a "discursive" conversational style. Jane Pauley, so masterful at reinvention, reaches a new level with 'CBS Sunday Morning' 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Her trilogy is made up of virtuosic, morally discursive works that eschew narrative in favour of what, initially, appears to be a stream of introspection from a Greek chorus of characters. Rachel Cusk experiments with new ways to tell stories 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In her own carefully controlled but fragmentary and discursive style, Denis provides the space for both kinds of judgment, never showing her own hand. Review | ‘Let the Sunshine In’: Juliette Binoche is a woman looking for love (and a little sex) 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Even as repression was swift, the discursive atmosphere persisted on the margins for a few months longer. Remembering culture's role in the Prague Spring 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Grybauskaitė gave a discursive answer that praised the US rather than Trump himself. 'He talked about jobs': Trump comes out fighting – and touts ally in Roseanne 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z His remarks came in a rambling, discursive speech at a factory in Ohio, during which he celebrated his revival of the American economy as the stock market plummeted by more than 1,000 points. Trump Accuses Democrats of ‘Treason’ Amid Market Rout 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Still, at a discursive speech Monday in Cincinnati that was nominally about the strong economy, President Trump decided to drop the T-word on the Democratic hand-sitters. Trump Drops the T-Word 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z In the course of a 70-minute interview at the mansion, Mr. Brown was relaxed, discursive, self-reflective and at times quarrelsome as he spoke about his past and his future. For Jerry Brown, the Face of California’s Old Order, the Ranch Is Calling 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z His style is wonderfully discursive, reflecting his wide range of interests and experiences. Review | Is the Internet good or bad for democracy? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Intersectionality is the buzzword to end all buzzwords, the term that launched a thousand hot-takes, a discursive sinkhole where political disputes go to die. Intersectional-what? Feminism's problem with jargon is that any idiot can pick it up and have a go 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z King’s It is a wandering, discursive book that spends plenty of time on the mechanics of what terrifies individual people, and the varied ways they respond to that terror. Stephen King’s It is the rare monster movie with too much monster 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Placing blame on the news media, he delivered a discursive, defensive analysis of why he was not responsible for dividing Americans. Different Day, Different Audience, and a Completely Different Trump 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z At times the book threatens to dissolve into discursive chaos, but American culinary history and race relations are messy subjects, and Mr Twitty deserves credit for diving headlong into both of them. Cooking in the American south 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z For reporters who covered Mr. Trump before he became president, there was a familiar discursive rhythm to his remarks. Dropping the Bluster, Trump Revives Banter With Reporters 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The last comes after a brief, discursive solo turn from Ms. Reid; the group seems to sink one level deeper into its conversation. The Playlist: Foo Fighters Run Amok, and Arcade Fire and Lorde Overindulge 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z In a discursive interview with Julie Pace of the Associated Press, Mr. Trump suggested that the responsibility of his job indeed may be sinking in. Opinion | Trump should stop playing his game of budget brinkmanship 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z When young jihadis speak of “truth”, it is never in reference to discursive knowledge. Who are the new jihadis? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Trump’s statement about Cummings came in the course of a long, discursive interview with the New York Times in the Oval Office. Top Democrat shoots down claim he said Trump would be 'great president' 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z These are the president’s people, and this is the discursive swamp they dwell in. Burst your bubble: conservatives on Mike Cernovich and Trump's foreign policy 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z During a characteristically discursive speech, the president said he is already delivering on his agenda – one seen as dark and divisive by his liberal critics. Donald Trump tells CPAC: 'We are Americans and the future belongs to us' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Kanye has this discursive way of working, getting input from a range of people, that I thought was really cool,” Longstreth said. The Dirty Projectors Go Solo 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A curious feature of the current discursive landscape is that anyone leaning towards a humane or egalitarian position is supposedly part of a liberal elite that doesn’t listen. ‘Keep campaigning and stay plugged in’ – what next after the Women’s March 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z His remarks in a string of discursive and sometimes contradictory interviews have escalated tensions with China while also infuriating allies and institutions critical to America’s traditional leadership of the West. As Trump Era Arrives, a Sense of Uncertainty Grips the World 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Thus his tangents — which, if written in a leisurely and discursive way, would be eye-opening and exciting — are sometimes stuffed together in great paragraphs of learned information that can quash one’s ability to absorb. From island to island capturing the atmosphere and allure of the Caribbean 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In the last third, the narrative loses a little steam and becomes more discursive. Turning the nightmare of a child’s loss into art 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In this subtly discursive study, historian of science Juan Pimentel looks at two animals that profoundly marked science, yet were “imagined without being seen”. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But where he was polished and pithy, she’s thoughtful and discursive, moving casually between ballads and rave-ups, confessions and accusations, songs about giving up on love and songs about seeking it out again. On 'The Weight of These Wings,' Miranda Lambert tells her side of a very public story 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Predicting Trump’s plans, however, largely relies upon reading the runes from his discursive policy speeches, which regularly dissolved into vituperative diatribes while on the campaign trail. Trump presidency a 'disaster for the planet' 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But the focused, discursive meltdown – that is another sport entirely, and a far less comfortable one too. The Joy of Six: tennis tantrums 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In typical discursive Mike Leach fashion, the Cougars’ head coach took 10 minutes of his Monday press conference to explain. The crazy way WSU Cougars coach Mike Leach selects his captain for the pre-game coin toss 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “It is classic discursive infiltration — you get the enemy camp to use your phrases and buzzwords. You have got to admire the Chinese for that.” Duterte's Bold Moves in China Spell Trouble for the U.S. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In a discursive address that combined his trademark improvised riffs with more unsteady moments reading from notes, the presumptive Republican nominee tried to convince the crowd that he was one of them. NRA endorses Donald Trump despite history of gun control support 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Now 79 years old, Hersh is discursive, intense, erudite, and disarmingly casual. “A lot of things that seem simple aren’t so simple”: Seymour Hersh on the untold story of Osama bin Laden killing and the way Washington — and the media — really work 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Under questioning, he was not discursive but spoke confidently, only occasionally tripped up by delays in the audio transmission and in documents being provided to him. George Pell: church had 'predisposition not to believe' children who complained about priests 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z In her stump speech, Clinton takes voters through a long and sometimes discursive list of her plans to fix the Affordable Care Act rather than scrap it. Question: What’s Clinton’s message? Answer: All of the above. 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Hail, Caesar! is immensely entertaining, but it's also frustratingly discursive, with so many incomplete sidelines and distractions that it suggests an overcrowded but exciting TV pilot more than a self-contained film. Hail, Caesar! is an overcrowded ode to Old Hollywood 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The speech, at 40 minutes, was too long and discursive, but it included the most important point. Cut Clinton some slack 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z His last response was long and discursive, brimming with irony and humor. How Chris Jackson Is Building a Black Literary Movement 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Trump’s speaking style, by now familiar to anyone who watches much cable television, is discursive. Sanders and Trump both get treated like rock stars. But similarities end there. 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Clinton was discursive as he moved back and forth from talking about his own presidency and the work of his foundation, which he mentioned a few times, to Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy and ideas. Bill Clinton, in Restrained Mode, Returns to Campaign Trail in New Hampshire 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z He is obliging, serious, discursive – the very model of a publishing-friendly contemporary author. City on Fire author Garth Risk Hallberg: 'I'm pure outsider' 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Christie’s answers are long, discursive and sometimes repetitive. Back in the pack, this is not the campaign Chris Christie envisioned 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z There are still some lapses: A speech billed as a major national security address on the eve of Wednesday’s debate was instead a discursive riff with little by way of new substance. Donald Trump Adds Something Unexpected to His Campaign: Discipline 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Nowadays, monuments are, Lewis says, “discursive, sentimental, addicted to narrative literalism.” The proposed Eisenhower memorial is a monstrosity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z There are also lengthy discursive, if rambling, documents on the potential of digital media to undermine regimes across the world. Bin Laden's declassified documents reveal a family-oriented conspiracist 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But a generalized Arthurian setting, perilous for most writers, is a larger liability for a writer whose mimesis tends not toward the specific but toward discursive monologue and dreamlike suspensions. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Folly 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Throughout her discursive speech, in which she referenced Greek mythology and recounted the history of the terrorist attack and its aftermath, Fernández was on the offensive. Argentine president calls for dissolution of spy service 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Little of it is discursive or challenging; it merely requires processing. 5 Non-Business Books That Will Enhance Your Professional Life 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Which is not to say that the Kremlin isn’t engaged in the same discursive political game. Just don’t mention the wars! John Kerry’s stunning hypocrisy over Ukraine 2014-03-03T16:36:00Z "The format should be varied to facilitate a more discursive approach, pursuing genuine debate on just a few topical areas as well as more rapid-fire Q&As," the society said. Call to put rowdy MPs in 'sin bin' 2014-02-11T11:05:35Z While political opinion outlets within the genre are recognizable by a distinct clustering of several attributes, they are recognizable primarily by a hallmark discursive style. Our outrageous media created the Tea Party 2013-12-07T14:30:00Z With a funny, dreamy, discursive style, he shoots through the romantic, militaristic myth spouted by football’s major media organs. Inside the NFL 2013-09-25T17:05:37Z Mr. Liu repeatedly indulged in discursive attacks on the city’s campaign finance board for refusing to provide him with matching funds for his candidacy, and the news media for covering his fund-raising improprieties in detail. With Little Time Left, Mayoral Candidates Pounce on de Blasio 2013-09-04T02:57:22Z I dislike the argument because it's anti-intellectual, dismissing reason and systems – all the tools of discursive progress – and attempting to replace them with the power of personal testimony. Are you too white, rich, able-bodied and straight to be a feminist? 2013-04-18T07:29:01Z Franciscans are accustomed to expressing themselves in less discursive ways: through labor, through charity, and through other examples of what Catholics call corporal and spiritual works of mercy. A Franciscan Jesuit for pope 2013-03-14T22:04:50Z In addition to its unique discursive style, the genre also has other recognizable attributes. Our outrageous media created the Tea Party 2013-12-07T14:30:00Z The discursive context may be constrained as well by the $25 that it costs to buy a PDF of the full text of the article in New Media and Society. On "Media Refusal and Conspicuous Non-Consumption: The Performative and Political Dimensions of Facebook Abstention" 2013-02-22T16:45:00.447Z Only a couple of regular BBC TV programmes supposedly delve below the surface of events: Newsnight, strong on debate and eurozone policy, but not on less discursive events; and Panorama, flagship of pomp and circumstance. BBC shouldn't need tabloid 'permission' to probe Jimmy Savile allegations 2012-10-13T23:29:01Z He sounded like he does in his press conferences, at times discursive and often giving answers that were longer than necessary. Presidential debate: Two candidates on stage, two different ones on campaign trail 2012-10-04T16:17:00Z I should also draw attention to a new feature of his website, called 'Marten's Perspective', in which he will offer regular insights into the sport in the form of discursive essays. Talking Horses: Latest news and best bets in our daily racing blog 2012-08-29T10:44:00Z This was no rant, but a discursive chat. Romney accused of racism by Palestinians 2012-07-30T15:49:23Z The discursive context will necessarily be constrained by the ideological forces that shape mainstream conversations about consumption.” On "Media Refusal and Conspicuous Non-Consumption: The Performative and Political Dimensions of Facebook Abstention" 2013-02-22T16:45:00.447Z A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. Thirty words English got from India 2012-07-11T23:36:35Z Not to stray, however, but to get our feet once more upon solid ground, we may refer to a classic example, with which this article, had it been aught else but discursive, should have begun. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z But in spite of his scrupulous efforts after accuracy, the success of the book was marred by its obtrusively moral purpose and its discursive character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Professor Thomson was, it must be admitted, too discursive for the ordinary student, and perhaps did not91 study the art of boiling down physical theories to the form most easily digestible. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z But he quickly became more discursive under Captain Dove's threatening glance. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z But even the word "discursive" doesn't quite prepare the reader for what is to come. Thirty words English got from India 2012-07-11T23:36:35Z The variety of matter introduced has obliged me to be discursive, and to have recourse to some repetitions that were necessary to illustrate subjects not easily abridged. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Literature, philosophy, politics, or sport may be handled in a loosely discursive style; and the writer, while indulging himself, is apt to think he is pleasing the reader. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z It is a discursive subject that of itself breeds laggard humours, inclines you to reverie, and suggests a discursive style. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z "Pray go on with your story, friend," said I, very demurely, for fear of hurrying him into becoming more discursive, "I feel quite interested." The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z But a truce to this cheap discursive stuff. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z His town halls have been marathon affairs, beginning with a discursive stump speech that whipsaws from Alexis de Tocqueville to Social Security, from Khrushchev to the intricacies of Griswold v. Santorum Stymied in New Hampshire? Hostile Crowds Greet GOP Upstart 2012-01-09T19:05:10Z We can therefore never attain to a sensuous and, properly speaking, evident knowledge of their nature, but only to a knowledge which is abstract and discursive. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z He began each speech with a long, discursive section on foreign policy–citing George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush, among others, on the perils of entangling alliances, the military-industrial complex and nation-building. 12 Days Till Iowa: Ron Paul Is Not a Politician 2011-12-22T10:05:31Z Like Pitt he was the type of authority and resistance, unmoved by the brilliant charges, the wit, the gaiety, the irony and the discursive power of his great rival. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In the terminology of Hamilton it is the nomology of discursive thought. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In his discursive 1910 autobiography, “The Digressions of V.: Written for His Own Fun and That of His Friends,” he described the Egyptian countryside as “beautiful, simple and grand.” | Westchester: ?Elihu Vedder: Voyage on the Nile? ? Review 2011-12-03T00:42:45Z There was just sufficient reason in her discursive statements to cause the girl to wince mentally. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z The method is discursive and the style obscure; and it is chiefly prizable as an evidence of the versatility, the extensive reading, and the perseverance of the author. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z It was a presentation reminiscent in its sprawl of Gingrich’s discursive nemesis of old, Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich Is Having His 'I-Told-You-So' Moment 2011-11-15T13:35:15Z The second part of Trelawny’s Autobiography took the chatty and discursive form, so popular at the present day, of “Reminiscences.” The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Of his discursive letters, which are immensely long, in a style of florid eloquence, only a few specimen extracts can find room here. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z No fact ever failed to interest him, but his mind was too discursive and his studies too widespread and too superficial to give him a store of sound and well-digested knowledge. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z The Universe as physical object, the observing Sense, and the discursive Understanding, lie wholly within it. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z We can hardly classify, by ordinary rules, a work so unusual in form and purpose, so discursive in subject-matter, so unconventional in its appeals to reason, religion and morality.... Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z It is surely not amiss to open this series of discursive papers with some thoughts upon our home blessings, upon God’s hand in giving them, and our work in spreading them. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Of the four English stories, The Mill on the Floss seems to me to have most dramatic continuity, in distinction from that descriptive, discursive method of narration which I have attempted to indicate. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z But, avaunt! all learned discourse on the subject; perish all discursive lore. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z The faculty of the mind by which it forms a concept—the discursive Understanding—is impotent to conceive what cannot be conceived—the act of creation. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z He reproached Karl with the aimless and discursive way in which he worked. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z The romance which has here been utilized shows an acquaintance with Egypt; the narratives are discursive, not laconic, everything is more detailed, and more under the influence of literary art. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z “It’s good to be home,” he said, and dropped into a discursive chat about the places he had visited. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z It was less various and discursive in its matter than the speech on Foot’s resolution, but more condensed and systematic. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z The discursive faculty cannot pass over it, because there are in it no various points upon which that faculty may fasten. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z I wish my vagrant pen were less discursive. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Thus observation is of three kinds—discursive, experimental, and inductive. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Christabel, the wonderful fragment, is a fragment; so is Hyperion; Don Juan, also unfinished, becomes more discursive the further it proceeds, and in spirit is nowhere great. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He was lounging on the sofa, playing with Emmeline's flowing ringlets, as she sat on a low stool by his side, chatting with him, in as discursive a strain as his fancy willed. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z The Hous of Fame is too discursive to be really effective as a whole. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z It is too discursive—over descriptive, to permit of the mind collecting the details together as one whole. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z This is perhaps the most discursive of Ruysbroeck’s works, and in that sense the most difficult to follow, because of the number and length of the digressions. A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 2011-06-14T02:00:22.820Z Nervous and discursive reader! logical and phlegmatic reader! here is a book which will suit you both. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z He was at once energetic and discursive, enthusiastic, but at times visionary. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z That I have been discursive with an idea of entertaining for a time the suffering members of the family; 3rd. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z The barren desert itself would have some congeniality with his discursive thoughts, his melancholy feelings, and even his disgust for a life equally devoid of illusion and of hope. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He was a man of the highest order of abilities, with a memory that never forgot; but he was ruined and run to seed by the idleness that came of a discursive uncertain temperament. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z He was at once discursive and profound; he could soar like the eagle, or hover on unwearied wings around a minute circle. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z He was more discursive in replying to what he called, ‘in no taunting spirit, the philanthropic part of the question.’ The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The latter's poem of Mambriano owes all its interest to the episodes, and many of its introductory reflections are fair specimens of the discursive style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z To illustrate the freely discursive character of the work, we give the whole of chapter sixteen—there are chapters still shorter—in Book VII.: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The genius of their language and of their usual style of poetry, as well as their own practical and imitative character, were unfavourable to the composition of such bold, figurative, and discursive strains. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The discursive nature and inordinate length of the introductions to his histories have been strongly censured. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z On the important topic of practical instruction, the Convention appear to have entered at some length; but, seemingly, with the same discursive irregularity, that characterizes all their other deliberations. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The latter is a musical eclogue in terza rima; the former a discursive love-poem, with allegorical episodes, in octave stanzas. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z We have no intuitive insight into their natures; all our knowledge here is abstractive and discursive. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z His oratory, though florid and discursive, began to exhibit symptoms of a genuine manly purpose. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z We should hardly be led to assert, however, that the difference between the epic and the drama lies in this, that the latter may be discursive and reflective while the former cannot. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z But he gradually drifted therefrom into a discursive monologue of many things. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Giorgio Vasari, architect, painter, biographer, designed the Uffizi at Florence, painted many indifferent pictures, and wrote "Lives of the Painters," a garrulous, discursive, inaccurate, and delightful book. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z It is something more fluctuating and discursive than that—at any rate, for every one young enough not to-6- have set and hardened. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The only sound within was the melancholy chirping of a discursive frog. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The charm of southern France is such as to compel most writers thereon to become discursive. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z We might have spared our reader this discursive essay, but that it pertains to our story. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Asked if he accepted that, because he likes to play aggressively, unforced errors were acceptable, Federer took a different and rather more discursive view. Australian Open 2011: Andy Murray takes note of Alexandr Dolgopolov 2011-01-24T08:19:17Z It was Paul who by a timely remark now and then had recalled mine host, when he was disposed to be discursive, to the interesting story which was thus related quite connectedly. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z Then the bottle went round, the air became charged with smoke, conversation grew discursive. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z But if the novel is to follow life it must be various and discursive. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z I said, pursuing the subject as its points presented themselves to my own mind, rather than following the thread of the squatter's discursive manner of thinking; "so well acquainted as to trade with him?" The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Ramsay's opinion was that Kelvin "was not what would be called a good lecturer; he was too discursive." London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z In the time of e-mails and laptops we are already lacking the long discursive letters that people once sent. Dear diary 2010-12-31T15:40:10Z It may be an appropriate close to these somewhat discursive, yet related, remarks, to show that the idea of woman in the old Hebrew Scripture, was the germ that Christianity is ripening to the flower. Address to the First Graduating Class of Rutgers Female College 2011-01-01T03:00:22.597Z Moreover, as his essence is unchangeable, equally filling all places; so his understanding does not proceed by way of rational connection, or discursive operation from one idea to another. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Arrestingly self-assured and charismatic, his conversation is warm and discursive, intently engaged yet relaxed – but it's his rhetorical fluency which bowls you over. Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform' 2010-07-05T07:00:00Z There’s no room for that kind of discursive, descriptive run-on on the Web, where “Northwest Fritters, Passengers Freak” would work better. The Media Equation: Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline 2010-05-16T23:10:00Z In our February issue we covered Saul Griffith, an inventor and entrepreneur with wildly discursive interests to a brain that's always humming. Crisis at Facebook? 2010-05-13T16:10:00Z Mr. Brown “called both Clegg and Cameron in and, instead of being polite and discursive, told them what to think and to agree with him, then dispatched them out of the room,” he said. News Analysis: What Are the Odds of a British Coalition? 2010-04-22T23:02:00Z “What fellow?” asked Ruth, trying to get at the meat in the nut, for Aunt Alvirah was very discursive. Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway With Lucilius, satire, while retaining its dramatic and discursive character, became didactic as well, and thus the word assumed its modern signification. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Alas that what "might have been" cannot come into being by force of discursive demonstration! Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This discursive glance was already familiar to me, and its flitting lightness whetted my curiosity as to possible non-committal depths beneath. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece In looking back upon these discursive comments on the Vagabond element in modern literature, one cannot help asking what is the resultant effect of the Vagabond temperament upon life and thought. The Vagabond in Literature Brilliant displays, discursive efforts, however effective, will no more constitute statesmanship than fireworks suffice to light up the streets of a city. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) This was the discursive talk that went round. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Martin's third year was a time of activity, free both from the boundless and discursive idling of his "fresher" period and the anxious strain that pending examinations cannot fail to produce. Years of Plenty The title at the beginning of this book, "The Rising City: I," may lead nervous readers to fear yet another attempt in that extended and discursive direction. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary A passing whim, a transient resentment, will be the occasion of some finely discursive essay on abstract virtues and vices. The Vagabond in Literature Thus his criticisms are often extremely discursive, and some of his most valuable reflections on matters at first sight quite remote from the fine arts occur in these Salons. A Short History of French Literature They were delivered before the University of Cambridge, and comprise a series of brilliant, discursive commentaries on the salient points of French history, from the time of Charlemagne to that of Louis XIV. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 It’s a big bill, and—be discursive, please! An Unknown Lover If Love and the King were the more powerful, then would Mrs. Rand make a discursive third. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Better even than his brilliant, suggestive, if capricious, criticisms are his discursive essays on men and things. The Vagabond in Literature Mary found no clue thereto in her mother’s continued monologue, though it was discursive enough to take in the whole countryside. Lady Cassandra If it be true that one look may speak volumes, it is clear that we might save ourselves much of the trouble entailed by the use of discursive speech. Lectures on The Science of Language Consequently, the knowledge of every understanding, or at least of every human understanding, is a knowledge through conceptions,—not perceptive, but discursive. Kant's Theory of Knowledge They were talking away in that gay, rattling, discursive fashion very young men do amongst each other, and discussed fishing-flies, the neighboring gentlemen's seats, and the landlady's niece. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance He had the ready instinct of the discursive writer for what was dramatically telling. The Vagabond in Literature A certain Signor Gabriel, with whom he sojourned months long in the Maremma, introduced him to Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau: his own discursive tastes added others to the list.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier "Very clever," said Classon; "discursive; not always what the French call 'consequent,' but, certainly, clever, and a sweet poetess." Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day From the discursive and desultory nature of the old gentleman’s style, as before hinted, it would be vain to look for a continuous narrative in his journal, even if it contained materials for such. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 The whole difference between it and the novel is that the novel is more discursive. The Technique of Fiction Writing Salutary as Emerson was to Thoreau as an intellectual irritant, he was the last man in the world for the discursive Thoreau to take as a literary model. The Vagabond in Literature The utterance of that name seemed to recall her from the discursive babble. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life With what discursive freedom does the imagination range from the little plate of oysters that preludes your soup, to pearl fishery and the coral reefs, "with moonlight sleeping on the breaking surf!" Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas It may seem a little discursive; but it forms, I think, a convenient introduction to our general subject. The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 Dashing off in fine desultory style, with a fluent pen, and a flux of words, he proclaims that his sole ambition is to amuse, and with that view he proposes to be discursive and parlous. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Naturally I think he had a discursive and inquisitive, rather than a profound and analytical mind. The Vagabond in Literature They talked little, and that little was discursive. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life There’s just one subject he’s discursive on, and that’s the best fertilizer for young orange trees.” The House of Fulfilment This is a sufficient reason for not spending time upon it, if Logic is conceived as a science that has a bearing upon the actual practice of discussion or discursive thought. Logic, Inductive and Deductive For this purpose events were in his view not more important than the thoughts of men, because discursive and creative thought was to him the ruling factor in history. Studies in Contemporary Biography His discursive essays are arabesques observing geometrical patterns, and though seemingly careless, follow out cunningly preconceived designs. The Vagabond in Literature Clement is exceedingly discursive, and his letter reaches twice the length of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" I am afraid you will think this a wild, discursive sort of a letter. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work The power he delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature It was not discursive, not versatile, not apt to generalise. Studies in Contemporary Biography Writers such as Stevenson have given us discursive books of travel; other Vagabonds have shown an equal zest for the life of the open air—Thoreau and Whitman, for example. The Vagabond in Literature The large teeth beneath his discursive moustache gave him the effect of a perennial smile to which his asymmetrical ears added a touch of waggery. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman However profuse and discursive, De Quincey is always polished, and generally exact—a scholar, a wit, a man of the world and a philosopher, as well as a genius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Otherwise it would become so discursive that one could not possibly follow it. Music: An Art and a Language It was not a discursive thinking about Mary but a definite fixed direction of thought towards her. The Passionate Friends He is always a man of intuitions rather than of discursive intellect; often keen of vision, though wanting in analytical power. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Memory and obliviscence, those complementary and perhaps constituent elements of soul-being, attention, sensation, recognition, and discursive reasoning, all these exhibitions of the workings of the normal mind appeared in Christ. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Demosthenes has at command all the discursive brilliancy which fascinates a festal audience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Let him restrain his discursive propensities, and deal scientifically with this one fact, which explodes his whole theory of Atheism. Arrows of Freethought If he had the wisdom of Solomon he might also have his discursive fancies, his various and evanescent attachments. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife It so happened, that, after this discursive life had lasted for some ten months, a serious difficulty arose between the clergyman and the parish of the neighboring town of Ashfield. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 They represented abstractions necessary to discursive reason rather than concrete psychic facts. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology In fact, so deliciously are logical inconsequence and accidental humor mingled throughout his fifteen columns of discursive criticism that a suspicion arises as to the writer's nationality. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer God loves better the affectionate language of the heart, than, the cold and discursive thoughts of the intellect. Letters of Madam Guyon "Bobby, you are growing discursive," his cousin reminded him. The Dominant Strain I admitted a delirious delight in discursive digression. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The day was perfect, though rather too warm for climbing, and we had frequent rests among the olive-trees, with delightfully discursive talks on all things under the sun. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories “It was unlucky for Earl that he killed Matt Hall,” said Joan, taking up another thread of thought in her discursive, unfixed humor of that day. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek She spoke in a friendly tone; discursive, as if inviting confidence and comment on my part. The First Violin A Novel Her story was ill-arranged and discursive, with personal characteristics of Lord Crawleigh sandwiched between her life at Government House, Ottawa, and a thwarted romance between her brother and a designing American. The Education of Eric Lane They made no pretensions to literary form, and approach much more to discursive conversations than to anything that suggests deliberate composition. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice As may be judged from the somewhat discursive dialogue on the piazza, he had a subject well matured in his mind for the literary exercises of the Club. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Never indulging in the diffuse or the discursive himself, he never tolerated such a course on the part of the student. The History of Dartmouth College Voltaire, though he adhered, in part at least, to the old subjects in his tragedies, is far more various and discursive in his mode of treating them. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Indeed, his rambles were often discursive, so that I lost sight of him for hours together; once in Sardinia, when there was reason to fear his having been carried off to the mountains by banditti. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. He is very nice, only his self-consciousness spoils him,” returned Nan, in a calm, discursive tone, as though they were discussing ordinary visitors. Not Like Other Girls Any piece of literature, even the most discursive, has in it something of plan; but in literature of the first rank the plan is easily discovered. English: Composition and Literature Observations so discursive as these can hardly be finished; they must break off abruptly, or else go on forever. Birds in the Bush The discursive manner of our author frequently furnishes us with anecdotes of interest, sometimes relating to habits of the Indians, and sometimes to other persons and subjects. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 It represents thought as embracing the highest and most fundamental principles of existence, upon which all mediate and discursive and inferential thinking depends. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy They, too, are language in a certain sense, and they must be included in language before we are justified in saying that discursive thought can be realized in language only. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays The evidence of such principles is established by a long and discursive psychological discussion. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. But when, instead of hearkening to the simple and spontaneous intuitions of the mind, man turns to the world of sense, and loses himself in discursive thought, the conviction of a personal God becomes obscured. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It is noticeable, too, that Hobbes is very sparing of the adjective—the great resource and delight of flowery and discursive writers. A History of Elizabethan Literature Finally, man has a still higher function than discursive thought. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Meanwhile, it is open even to an amateur to offer something, in a general and discursive way, upon so inviting a theme, and especially to call attention to its scope and variety. The Foot-path Way The book, however, is extremely discursive, and no small portion of it is devoted to foreign politics. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. And, secondly, it explains how art can fulfil the behests of our changing and discursive interest in things while satisfying the imperious unchanging demands of the contemplated preference for beautiful aspects. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics There would be no visible expressiveness, although there might have been discursive suggestions. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory It is generally so in portraiture where rendition of externals is attempted, but the portrait may suggest revery and reflection, or, by intimate accessory, provoke a discursive movement in thought. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures The combining, discursive imagination proceeds from details to the vaguely-perceived unity. Essay on the Creative Imagination Then follows an abrupt discursive study of his aptitudes and proclivities, interspersed with Latin exclamations, interrogation points and dashes. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century The pictorial representation of locomotion affords therefore the extreme example of the difference between discursive thinking about things and contemplation of shape. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics But artificiality there must always be in the discursive description of anything given in consciousness. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The νους ποιητικος is Science entire, posited all at once, which the conscious, discursive intellect is condemned to reconstruct with difficulty, bit by bit. Creative Evolution But as soon as the work requires time and development the discursive process becomes absolutely necessary: with many inventors one easily perceives the change from one form to the other. Essay on the Creative Imagination As a lecturer he was eloquent and though discursive, always interesting. Wilmot and Tilley THE necessities of analysis and exposition have led us from the Shape to the Thing, from aesthetic contemplation to discursive and practical thinking. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics The distinction, however, is not absolute: for the simple sensation is itself interesting, and the complication, if it is appreciable by sense and does not require discursive thought to grasp it, is itself beautiful. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory She addresses herself, generally, to Mrs. Harris, to whom the book is dedicated,—but is discursive. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete He was silent for some time afterwards, and even on the arrival of the mail was less discursive than usual. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim They have the wordiness of hasty composition, and the discursive rhetoric intended to catch the attention of an indolent audience. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The first part of the lecture was a little discursive, I fancy for my especial benefit, and summarized Mr. Burns' system, which is to a great extent original. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Beauty of form, however, is what specifically appeals to an aesthetic nature; it is equally removed from the crudity of formless stimulation and from the emotional looseness of reverie and discursive thought. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Of all essayists who have yet written, he is the most transparent, the most sincere even in his stratagems, the most discursive, the most free-tongued, and therefore the most alive. Montaigne and Shakspere Of the four English stories, "The Mill on the Floss" seems to me to have most dramatic continuity, in distinction from that descriptive, discursive method of narration which I have attempted to indicate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 The discursive rhetoric of Brown or Stewart is replaced by good, hard, sinewy logic. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Again, discursive thinking is regarded as an interruption of religion. The Approach to Philosophy The profit of travel, and the extraordinary charm of all visible relics of antiquity, consists in the acquisition of images in which to focus a mass of discursive knowledge, not otherwise felt together. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory No discursive process intervenes; one simply knows the phenomenon as it is experienced. Humanistic Nursing His method is too discursive and leisurely; his subjects as a rule too remote from current interest; his line of thought too intricate. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Coleridge's random and discursive hints remained mere hints—a suggestion at best for future thought. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In some way or another it must have overcome the rift in discursive knowledge, and the immediate must for it be no longer the alien. The Approach to Philosophy Should any reader be puzzled by the title of this discursive volume, the following verses may provide him with an explanation. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Being a man, he wasn't so discursive as Anne; he said his say in four pages, but I could read the heartache between the lines. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 With this sentiment I most cordially coincide, and at the same time bring these somewhat rambling and discursive reminiscences to an end. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Numerous amendments were proposed, much discursive talk was indulged in, and many motions to adjourn were voted down. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States I will close this discursive chapter by offering a bit of advice. Woodcraft Nothing is too vast, nothing too subtle, nothing too distant, nothing too minute, nothing too discursive, nothing too exact, to engage its attention. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin It is the spontaneous outpouring of one of the most fertile and restless of minds, easy, familiar, abundant, and discursive. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Reminiscences, especially when they spread over many years, and embrace great events, admit of very discursive treatment. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 His introduction was not long, nor was it discursive. Forty Minutes Late 1909 They are the potters, we are the clay, and—and—and my discourse is as discursive as that of Praed's vicar,' finished the doctor, with a dry chuckle. The Bishop's Secret Probably it contained the substance of his thesis, which, like most papers of the time, must have been very wordy and discursive. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings The discursive weakness in which the speculation of the transcendental Philosophy seems to dissipate itself makes us fear a similar decline. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge “I wonder how such a huge mass ever manages to melt,” said Elspie—for the human mind, even in pretty girls, is discursive. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains In the enjoyment of this generous fare, our drooping spirits rose, and Max, as was his wont, became discursive. The Island Home But now let me return from this discursive report of a sermon-lecture to some more central thoughts about the Preaching of the Word. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work To illustrate the freely discursive character of the work, we give the whole of chapter sixteen—there are chapters still shorter—in Book VII.:— Classic French Course in English All that the Mind of the vident ordinarily grasps and utilises in his discursive employment of the idea of any physical thing is what we have ventured to call its dynamic significance. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge But in those too fatally discursive letters; the letters which had come finally to feel like a sympathetic diary with no destination, she had rather enlarged on him. I've Married Marjorie He has produced a fascinating book, discreetly discursive—a book that seems to let you into the real secrets of a people's soul. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 As I write these somewhat discursive notes, there is a very old-world figure passing our verandah every now and then; he is our night watchman, called a Chowkidar or Ramoosee. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Much discursive reading is not only injurious to the faculty of memory, but may be positively destructive of it. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The town major, a learned and discursive subaltern, relieved on account of rheumatic troubles from more strenuous duties with an Infantry regiment, joined our mess and proved a valuable addition. Pushed and the Return Push And there must be removed in the second place that second lack of uniformity which arises from the discursive action of the reason. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Irish talk is apt to be discursive; to rely upon a general charm diffused through the whole, rather than upon any quotable brilliancy; its very essence is spontaneity, high spirits, fertility of resource. Irish Books and Irish People With one such illustration we conclude this discursive fragment. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 In this document the writer adopted a discursive and rhetorical style which, as the Colonial Secretary justly remarked, were "singularly ill adapted to bring questions of so much intricacy and importance to a definite issue." The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion To our taste the story is too discursive and long-winded. Maxim Gorki Whereas the intellect of the human soul, on the contrary, acquires intelligible truth from the things of sense, and understands it by the discursive action of the reason. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life As our symposium proceeded, O'Halloran grew more and more eloquent, more discursive, more learned, more enthusiastic. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Clearly, the abolition of discursive thought is not to absolve you from the obligations of industry. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Then, with that discursive tendency to which most minds are prone, we diverged to home and civilised lands, contrasting these with life in the wild-woods of the Great Nor’-west. The Big Otter The first elegant scholar who opened a richer vein in the mine of Modern Literature was Joseph Warton;—he had a fragmentary mind, and he was a rambler in discursive criticism. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 For if this discursive action be from the genus to the species or from the whole to the part, it will be, as Richard of S. Victor himself explains, motion upwards and downwards. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life The sense of sight makes its appearance in animals quite low in the scale, therefore the reader will pardon me if, while discussing this sense, I prove to be a bit discursive. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals We will try it at once on this second variety of the Titania, of which I find nothing of much interest in my books, and have nothing discursive myself to say. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds Observation she possessed in abundance, but her discursive narratives were by no means improved by being weighted by a plethora of useless detail. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story It was while Darsie was still conversing in airy, discursive fashion, and her companions listening with fascinated attention, that footsteps were heard approaching, and Ralph’s tall figure appeared at the end of the path. A College Girl Mademoiselle’s greetings were politely detached, Fräulein was kindly and discursive, Sophie’s smile was as bright as ever, but she did not look well. The Independence of Claire For the author's mind is, in the best sense of the word, a discursive one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 I suppose if anyone has a right to indulge in the convenience of indented headings when writing a discursive article, I may claim a share in the privilege. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly This is what I think I can do, with such discursive things: such as all the Oriental things I have seen are. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II On the discursive speech a whirlwind breaks, Tornadoes shake the desert, thunders roll And from the lightning's startled shrine, a voice! Man of Uz, and Other Poems It brings down the story-teller from his abstract and discursive freedom, and makes him limit himself to one thing at a time, with the greatest advantage to himself and all the rest of his story. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature There must be powerful analytic and discursive ability, combined with a commensurate reach of constructive and imaginative capacity. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This evening, as usual, the conversation was discursive. My New Curate I answer that, Knowledge may be discursive or collative in two ways. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Who is more discursive than the Autocrat, the Czar of table-talkers; and whose productions are more charming or wiser? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The first of the tales, "Inclined Planes," is a discursive family chronicle, showing the decadence of a fishing village under the influence of city boarders. Essays on Scandinavian Literature After this, Mr. Stellato, being put under inspiration, delivered a discursive homily upon the "New Dispensation" which was at present vouchsafed to the citizens of Foxden. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 The constable had been discursive, voluminous, in his entertaining. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Secondly, knowledge may be called discursive or collative in use; as at times those who know, reason from cause to effect, not in order to learn anew, but wishing to use the knowledge they have. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition But all of Lowell's essays are discursive and familiar. Modern American Prose Selections A good deal of time for both was wasted in "talking things over," with much discursive chatter on matters in general, and all sorts of consulting back and forth about the job to be done. One Woman's Life It is a series of ethical discourses, lengthy and discursive, which must have seemed dull enough to contemporary students: to read it through now would be a task almost impossible. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study Dr. Haney's work is both complete and exhaustive without being discursive. Applied Eugenics And in this way the knowledge in Christ's soul could be collative or discursive; since it could conclude one thing from another, as it pleased, as in Matt. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition But I am becoming as discursive as ever! Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls Slow in tempo, discursive, reflective, intimate, the book covers a vast territory, and lingers in pleasant fields. A Book of Prefaces But his criticisms were too discursive to be really dangerous, and his condemnation of "sloppy Socialism" put up the backs of the Labour Party. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 Not love's converse now seems So tender to my dreams As he, discursive at our mutual desk, Most fervid and most ripe, When dreaming at his pipe, He made the opiate nights grow Arabesque. Bohemian Days Three American Tales Therefore it seems that there was no collative or discursive knowledge in Christ. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition This work is out of print, but those who are fortunate enough to be able to consult it will find therein much that is curious and discursive. Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer I mildly call the discussion "discursive," though it would be fair in one or two instances to dub the piece frankly a medley. Platform Monologues The book is a big survey of a quantity of odd and amusing people, and it is only by degrees that the discursive method is abandoned and the narrative brought to a point. The Craft of Fiction Everybody looked up, and everybody's imagination took a discursive leap among possibilities, and then everybody, of course, asked "Whom?" Faith Gartney's Girlhood |
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