circumstantiality

Eliciting information from such a person can be difficult since circumstantiality makes it hard for the individual to stay on topic.

Ball tells stories remarkable in their circumstantiality.

In circumstantiality, unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks cause a delay in getting to the point.

In due course a legend arose of such circumstantiality that the wise historian would hesitate to attack it.

Mrs Chivery derived a surprising force of emphasis from the foregoing circumstantiality and repetition.

Circumstantiality (also circumstantial thinking, or circumstantial speech) - An inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail.

Circumstantial speech (also referred to as circumstantiality) is a communication disorder in which the focus of a conversation drifts, but often comes back to the point.

Now, as an ex-arbiter, I can tell you that the circumstantiality of the evidence to which Chaeron refers will never stand up under due process.

Considering the elaborate circumstantiality of detail observable in the item, it seems to me that it ought to contain more information than it does.

A person afflicted with circumstantiality has slowed thinking and invariably talks at length about irrelevant and trivial details (i.e. circumstances).

In their vivid circumstantiality, the Snowdens' lives embody the complicated and ambiguous histories of American music and of American race relations.

Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality.

Disorganised thinking includes tangentiality, circumstantiality and a proneness to loose associations between elements of thought which results in speech that often makes limited sense with multiple apparent irrelevancies.

He describes events with all the circumstantiality of an eyewitness, and with all the prolixity of one who is determined to leave nothing untold, however trifling it may be.

Professor Wertheim describes Sjahrir's early accomplishments as Prime minister as follows: "...Sjahrir knows what he wants and will not be distracted by popular sentiment or circumstantiality.

The various Utah sessions produced such "-alities" as postcoloniality, positionality, ideality, intentionality, temporality, globality, marginality, circumstantiality, potentiality, institutionality, paradoxicality, conditionality and traditionality.

Paweraa played a leading part in the vizierial commission set up to investigate, and, not surprisingly, it proved impossible for Paweraa to be officially charged with any crime due to the circumstantiality of the evidence.