The sensibility at work is more discursive, literary, even symbolist.
Winterrowd, who with Joe Eck created the extraordinary North Hill garden in southern Vermont, is more discursive.
Ms. Hayes's multiscreen "Parole" is more discursive, shifting among several characters, gay and straight, vocal and silent.
The adagio is more discursive and improvisatory.
Consequently, compared with quantitative paradigms, the presentation of results is more discursive.
In the Salonen, Paige Morgan was an efficient oboe soloist, but this work, which exuded whiffs of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and his Orientalism from its opening statement, was more discursive and less compelling, like a long college lecture.
Whereas "A Season on the Brink" was animated -- and held together -- by the explosive personality of Mr. Knight, Mr. Feinstein's other books have tended to be more discursive productions, and "The Last Amateurs" is no exception.
The new poems were more discursive and narrative, but retained their hard-to-parse, Blakean high-rhetorical style: "Let me proclaim it — human be my lot! — / How from my pit of green horse-bones / I turn, in a wilderness of sweat, / To the moon-breasted sibylline, / And lift this garland, Danger, from her throat / To blaze it in the foundries of the night".
She was more discursive in the interviews she taped during the day with the network anchors, using a question about why some voters dislike the Clintons as a way of hitting the issues with which she has sought to distinguish herself from Mr. Lazio.
