Hemingway's short sentences derive their power from their revolt against earlier, more discursive styles.

First, and last, is the matter of style - discursive and rhetorical, not sartorial.

"He has gone from an academic discursive style to a TV sound bite style," says Neal B. Freeman, the program's executive producer.

He rendered Katha Bhagavata in a discursive style that is dignified and balanced.

As his opinions became more radical, he adopted an increasingly trenchant and discursive style, speaking frequently in long, argued statements, laden with factual detail.

The critics praise Kidder's reporting, but most find the discursive style slow going.

An elegant study, combining sound judgement of Trollope's characterisation with an excellent discursive style.

His fiction, particularly in the six novels he has published since 1998, is characterised chiefly by a discursive and humorous style.

"Dark Age," in contrast, tackles a much larger, more abstract subject that does not lend itself to her looping, discursive style.

His book Diophantine Equations (1969) is based on lectures, and gives an idea of his discursive style.