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It is a rambling discursive book.discursive = digressing (departing from the main point)
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He recommends working more at discursive writing rather than writing for entertainment or human interest.
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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. (source)discursive = wandering
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"Will you get in?" begins Mr. Taylor, launching another discursive riff.† (source)
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Letter by letter, he had no mercy as he poisoned himself with the smoke from the palm oil lamps in the back room of the notions shop, and his letters became more discursive and more lunatic the more he tried to imitate his favorite poets from the Popular Library, which even at that time was approaching eighty volumes.† (source)
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Oderisi's 'Piu ridon ....'was how Dante drew attention to the humility of the miniaturists, who tried in the simplest, densest strokes to convey the essence of what they saw, and were not interested in discursive interpolations, conceits, or dazzling excursions that proved them to their fellowsalthough they had to do some of this simply to arouse their patrons.† (source)
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Another factor is twenty-four-hour news on cable TV and radio, where much of the reporting is done ad lib, making acceptable the values of spoken language, discursive and colloquial, an intellectual exercise different from that demanded in written reportage.† (source)
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But when he insisted, "You've been a librarian; tell me; do I read too much fiction?" she advised him loftily, rather discursively.† (source)
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The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Even so, subtly introduced as it was, steeped in the pleasantly spiced broth of the Professor's discursive, entertainingly acrid animadversions, the word and its full force and meaning—and thus its full meaning as it informed the entire substance of the essay was so horrible that she had to shove it into the back of her mind throughout the entire bone-chilling winter weekend during which she labored over her father's impassioned screed.† (source)
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Still she did not speak and, prompted by an obscure desire to help himself and her through their miserable last hour, he went on discursively: "Ain't it funny we haven't been down together but just that once last winter?"† (source)
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They were affectionate, humorous, discursive, but not the letters of a lover.† (source)
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All the same, it is undeniable that these notebooks, which form a sort of discursive diary, supply the chronicler of the period with a host of seemingly trivial details which yet have their importance, and whose very oddity should be enough to prevent the reader from passing hasty judgment on this singular man.† (source)
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Clearly he could have no patience with a chaotic, detailed, discursive writer like Shakespeare.† (source)
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But being unpracticed in such discursive reasoning and anything but intellectually alert after his unsalutary walk, he was easily diverted, and was in fact diverted almost immediately by the round back in front of him and by the arm extending from it, which lifted and reached back, so that the hand—now right before Hans Castorp's eyes—could tuck at the braid of hair.† (source)
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A bit discursive this, you know!† (source)
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