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discursive (Analytical), adjective a fortiori, a posteriiri, a priori, analytic, argumentative, deductive, dialectic, disquisitional, epagogic, inductive, inferential, logical, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, rational, reasoning discursive (Digressive), adjective aimless, circuitous, desultory, deviating, deviative, devious, disconnected, drifting, errant, indirect, meandering, rambling, random, ranging, roaming, roundabout, roving, shifting, straying, undirected, unsystematic, vagus, varius, wandering See also: circuitous, comprehensive, desultory, forensic, profuse, prolix, shifting, voluble How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Another disadvantage that would be perceived by positivists is the apparent discursiveness of the answers from participants, which often do not fit neatly into easily managed categories. For Zurn, the drawings were exercises in automatism, and their hypnagogic intensity evokes interim states, not only between sleeping and waking but between structure and chaos, depiction and discursiveness. Cinema, unlike literature with its blessed discursiveness, is an art of surface excitement, and in this movie the shouts of the mob drown Gibson's rather feeble attempts to convey the historical context. |
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