| 单词 | discursiveness |
| 例句 | But these sharp insights are undermined by the book’s exceeding discursiveness. Review | What got lost in one writer’s garden 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z This kind of conversational discursiveness is a key to Sehgal's work. Tino Seghal's Turbine Hall commission: 'Attention is what I work with' 2012-07-16T18:01:00Z At the same time, “Westworld” stays true to an ongoing discursiveness that both exalts in and cautions against the creation of artificially conscious beings. Review | ‘Westworld’ gets a needed upgrade in its pretentious quest for the meaning of not-life 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Much of the book's vitality springs from Alexander's early discursiveness, her effort of circling back from the wilds. In her new memoir, Elizabeth Alexander deals with loss of her spouse 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z For some theatergoers, though, Nelson’s extreme discursiveness will feel overstretched; how long do you want to stare at even the loveliest, most industrious ants digging their way through the sand of an ant farm? Review: In ‘What Happened?,’ a Questioning Farewell to Rhinebeck 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Directed by David Galligan and minimally designed with a revolving door and pink velvet rope, the show could be structurally tighter, but Mr. Jordan’s excitable discursiveness is part of his charm. | 'Leslie Jordan: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet': Leslie Jordan?s Coming-of-Age Show at Midtown Theater 2010-04-21T21:51:00Z That the new season of “Problem Areas” centers on education issues is a useful strategy for containing Cenac’s antic tangents and absurdist discursiveness. Jordan Klepper, Wyatt Cenac, and the Citizen Journalism of Class Clowns Made Good 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The discursiveness of the drama compounds the sluggishness of the plot. For Pulitzer winner Martyna Majok, 'Queens' is the latest play shining a light into society's shadows 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The side trips are part of the road map; his discursiveness is the obverse of intense discipline. Jack Dorsey: The Master Entrepreneur's Journey From Twitter To Square 2012-10-17T13:00:00Z "May I help you to some mutton?" said Barrington, more amused than put out by his guest's discursiveness. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The nature of my studies—and the Père kept me rigidly to the desk—offered little to the discursiveness of fancy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z And he has in measure succeeded in giving the air of talk to his writing—its ease, its gaiety, even its rambling and discursiveness. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z With the vigilance of a ratting terrier he watches for discursiveness, and pounces upon the offender at once. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z The friend then hastened to assure me that Romney was, beyond all that discursiveness, a decisive leader. Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot 2011-11-30T09:57:00Z In this discursiveness of intellect he more nearly resembled the Encyclopedists of the 18th century than the men of his own time. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z One of Hearn's dangers was discursiveness, or want of conciseness and intensity. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z As a natural result of a certain discursiveness of mind, there is hardly any kind of writing unrepresented in Mrs. Browning's poems. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The style is too generally loose, digressive and inexact; dates are seldom given; and discursiveness, verbosity and dogmatism are frequent faults. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z So far as we are acquainted with books of this class, they abound in two faults, discursiveness and inordinate discussion of bad models. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Even so slight a survey as this must show the astonishing discursiveness of Mr. Lewes's intellect. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z The nature of my studies—and the p�re kept me rigidly to the desk—offered little to the discursiveness of fancy. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Hence the success of country gentlemen in the House; hence the hearty cheers that follow the rambling discursiveness of bucolic eloquence! Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Can't the queerest things happen," Nan asked him, in a discursiveness he found nevertheless relevant, "here in New England? Old Crow Every subject I have had under consideration has invited discursiveness, and tempted me to linger and dilate upon it, and it alone. The Empire of the East An intellectual value stands ready to be transmuted into an aesthetic one, if once its discursiveness is lost, and it is left hanging about the object as a vague sense of dignity and meaning. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Sterne's sentiment and discursiveness found several feeble imitators. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration And this feeling harassed him, increasing the natural discursiveness and inconsequence of his speech. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It is so quiet in the smoking-room to-night—not even bridge going on yet, which perhaps accounts for the discursiveness of these rambling notes on a quiet Saturday night at sea. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The poem's discursiveness and large number of derived elements suggest a hasty composition. The Last Poems of Ovid But though we are tolerant of discursiveness where it affects only the flow of the story, we like it less where it disturbs the flow of the style. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 There is no faltering, no hesitation, no discursiveness; the arrow flies swiftly and fatally to the mark. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It demands gusto rather than strict method, discursiveness rather than concision, abundance of matter rather than mere neatness of design. Modern American Prose Selections She held a hair-pin between her lips, and a woman can always say exactly what she means when a hairpin prevents discursiveness. The Stowaway Girl But the angels' knowledge is not the result of inquiring, for this belongs to the discursiveness of reason. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition There is your forget-me-not, pink in the bud, and sapphire in the flower, with a fruit that breaks up into four, the very picture of inconstancy and discursiveness. Certain Personal Matters In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is well to avoid discursiveness, over-use of parentheses, and positiveness of statement. Talks on Talking The little mystery and the slender love-story which hold the discursiveness together are just sufficient but so slight that they shall not even be hinted at here. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 I am happy to think that, on the whole, they are not; and that the reader, though he may wonder at its discursiveness, will find the argument pretty free from polemic. On The Art of Reading A negative excellence is the absence of that discursiveness in composition, that tendency to digress into superfluous comment, which is this author's one prevailing fault. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars But still greater offence is given to many readers by the occasional practice of discursiveness; we employ the epithet intentionally, for the habit is by no means so inveterate as many seem to suppose. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Of his lengthiness, his discursiveness, Schubert might possibly have been cured, but not of his melancholy: it is the very essence of his music, as it was of his being. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The intermittent composition and the shifting points of view add an element of real ambiguity and indecision to faults of expression which mainly spring from the swiftness and discursiveness of a brilliant and athletic intellect. Robert Browning It is when a woman does not know what she wants that she baffles the philosopher just as the ant in her aimless discursiveness baffles the entomologist. Septimus But the inspired discursiveness of Mr. Conrad is not to be imitated here. Shandygaff These considerations account in part for De Quincey's discursiveness, but perhaps not wholly. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy His works are full of graceful and suggestive thought, but occasionally suffer from length and discursiveness. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature But if we frown on such discursiveness, he proudly shows us that the hundred lines are all in rhyme. The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala The discursiveness with which topics succeed each other, their want of logic or continuity, and the pelting fire of quotations in prose and verse, make a strange mixture. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The debating power of the provincial legislative bodies is excellent, and the chief defects are the great length and discursiveness of the speeches on local as well as on national questions. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 Possibly the apparent discursiveness may be only the preliminary journeying by which we are to secure some new and startling view of the subject. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Its double origin involves a double nature; for while the English spirit is towards discursiveness and variety, the new French movement is rather towards exhaustiveness. An Englishman Looks at the World He has a great range of knowledge, an incessant activity of mind; but the suspension of his judgment, the well-balanced moderation of his sentiments, is the consequence of the very discursiveness of his reason. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits For discursiveness, for repetition, for sheer inanity, I suppose it has never been equaled. A Man of Mark He followed it up with atmospheric discursiveness that would have worn away an editor's blue pencil. Stories from Everybody's Magazine But unpardonable wandering is of extremely rare occurrence; and, on the whole, the evils of discursiveness are altogether outweighed by the positive advantages and beauties to which we have referred. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But there persists about it a curious discursiveness that reflects upon the power and value of the initial impetus. An Englishman Looks at the World To his own ears his answers sounded now curt, now irrelevant: at one moment he seemed chillingly indifferent, at another he heard himself launching out on a flood of hazy discursiveness. The Reef It was his fault; heretofore he had been the leader, conducting her by a crafty discursiveness toward those confidences she so resolutely withheld. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Such discursiveness was justified by the tradition and by the inherent nature of satire. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Under this pressure the valet told all he knew about his master's departure, with very little loss of time by reason of discursiveness. Henry Dunbar A Novel Two other stories were used by the speaker, about the length and discursiveness of his talk. Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way To protect his corn, the farmer takes advantage of this very discursiveness, and stretches round the field a simple line, nothing in itself, but hinting at some undeveloped mischief which the bird cannot penetrate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 And the mediaeval monkish tale fails by reason of the discursiveness and huddling together of incidents, without regard to their dramatic values, which the moral application necessitates. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 By this discursiveness I do not mean gossip. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out It was familiar without being common- place, free without discursiveness, and it always had in it the note of distinction. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography I will not go into the details of that voyage here, much as I am given to discursiveness. Travels in West Africa Now I should have thought you were, judging by the patience with which you endured the parson's general discursiveness. God's Good Man The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent. Ulysses There was the same discursiveness in his talk as in his sermon, Harry thought; and the same uneasy restlessness of manner. Stories of a Western Town All his acquaintances asked after his "nebulous discursiveness" or his "blatant self- sufficiency," and this made him miserable. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition By this arrangement the terrible discursiveness of the fair, and man's cruel disposition to work a subject threadbare, were controlled and modified, and a happy balance of conversation established. A Simpleton All his acquaintances asked after his "nebulous discursiveness" or his "blatant self-sufficiency," and this made him miserable. Plain Tales from the Hills |
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