Sentence examples for discursive from inspiring English sources

Marco Rubio's book is a work of surpassing laziness, possessed of the aimless, discursive prose of someone remembering what his original point was after concluding a digression he suddenly remembered he wanted to make.

Iain's poems vary greatly in length and theme, ranging from discursive meditations on landscape and relationships through highly crafted love poems and take-no-prisoners polemics to witty squibs.

Comments will generally be open on blog posts, features which are discursive and likely to engender thoughtful/insightful/collaborative responses plus multimedia interviews, events, roundtables and conversations, where the content is clearly discursive itself or user participation is part of the story.

Each of these images is a single, simultaneous take: viewers get an entire movie, seen from four points of view and shot exactly once, perfectly and in real time.Mr Figgis looks and sounds much like a younger and English version of that great American maverick director, Robert Altman: hair askew, angry, charming, brilliant and discursive, and just possibly stoned.

He wrestled with this question in his perhaps too subtle and discursive final book, "Truth and Truthfulness".

It was clearly a discursive, wide-ranging affair, and the exhibition includes an extra-illustrated copy, now in Madrid, that contains 574 images.

The industry is being reshaped by technology but by undermining the mass media's business models, that technology is in many ways returning the industry to the more vibrant, freewheeling and discursive ways of the pre-industrial era.Until the early 19th century there was no technology for disseminating news to large numbers of people in a short space of time.

The internet is making news more participatory, social, diverse and partisan, reviving the discursive ethos of the era before mass media.

In contrast, blogging and tweeting are far more flexible and use many other discursive techniques to supply directionality and signifying force, most importantly personalistic tone.

So modern geography is interested in a more "discursive" approach, piling on detail and colour, in "close explication of locally specific and contingent factors", in building models from the bottom up, not from the top down.Mr Krugman's response is robust.

Mr Prunier, elaborate, anecdotal and discursive, enjoys demolishing the idea that the war is a conspiracy of English-speaking countries to prise Congo away from the French sphere of influence.