discursiveness

If so, you must allow me a measure of discursiveness, as the subject is most wonderful!

When we forget the instructions, what we're holding our mind to is discursiveness.

Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow.

He followed it up with atmospheric discursiveness that would have worn away an editor's blue pencil.

Moreover, against the time-consuming discursiveness of speech, vision is instantaneous.

What's missing, he argues, is "discursiveness, the sound of the writer ambling or running through his subject."

Han Yu wrote in many modes, often with discursiveness and experimental daring.

It was always there, in an only apparent discursiveness that played at being a willful randomness.

But there persists about it a curious discursiveness that reflects upon the power and value of the initial impetus.

Its discursiveness occasionally defeated his powers of invention.

Discursiveness in a lecture can be a delight; in print, the eye wanders.

Once more appears the value of the difference between Johnson's discursiveness and Boswell's practical observations.

Discursiveness and banality are intended for the rational purpose of conveying nothingness.

But historically the adaptation traffic between narrative and dramatic writing has been overwhelmingly in the other direction, from discursiveness toward intensity.

The longer fragments produce the impression of great discursiveness and carelessness, but at the same time of considerable force.

The other stories are a mixed bag, and "baggy" may be the right word for their loose and abundant discursiveness.

She saw art and discursiveness as opposed, and the presentation of "fact" inimical to art.

Roy Emerson sometimes found Rupert's discursiveness exasperating; he never seemed in a hurry to get to the point.

The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent.

Selectiveness is a rough estimate of the thing under consideration and discursiveness is an exact investigation of it.

What is discursiveness (vicara)?

In jhana there is no mental discursiveness, or very little, as the aim is to calm the vibrations of thought and mental activity.

Simon's syntactical and thematic discursiveness and preoccupation with memory and time are clearly reminiscent of Proust.

Eissler was incapable of banality, and his writings are sometimes touched with brilliance, but they are flawed by an unruly discursiveness.