These walks partly inspired his splendidly discursive and erudite "Rambles in the March of Brandenburg," whose combination of sentimental enthusiasm and the amateur's besotted aptitude for historical anecdote and geographical and zoological minutiae suggests a kind of proto-Patrick Leigh Fermor.
In the Book Review, Bruce Handy called "Assassination Vacation" a "learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly ramble".
Berger is a rambling and discursive writer, and his effort to graft new reporting onto previously published articles is labored.
A wonderful song from a group that disbanded too soon, led by Lou Barlow, filled with bizarre percussion, a driving beat, synthesizers, and a rambling, discursive narrative about lost childhood and disillusion.
Chris Rock would surely mock its mild racial politics, but his own Top Five (Paramount, 15) occasionally finds the firebrand comic pulling his punches: a rambling, discursive, sometimes squawkingly funny showbiz satire, it finds a bridge-burning comedian (Rock, obviously) seeking artistic redemption with a turgid black-history epic.
He drew together a collection of his poems (published in 1817 as Sibylline Leaves) and wrote Biographia Literaria (1817), a rambling and discursive but highly stimulating and influential work in which he outlined the evolution of his thought and developed an extended critique of Wordsworth's poems.
His rambling owes something to his poet's sense of discursive possibility; it may also be a result of a life of heavy drug use.
Mr. Kennedy often breaks up his anecdotes this way (another such section is called "Discursive Critique, With Gin"), thus glossing over the rambling, disjointed nature of the book's progress.
