(1) In intuition, discursive reasoning of data is not singled out as a special phase.(2) Place may be an immediate, pre-conceptual experience, and its knowledge then is intuitive rather than discursive .(3) The style is discursive , not doctrinal; persuasive, not proclamatory.(4) Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness.(5) Good style is honest, because it is consistent in the application of its principles - it aspires to integrity of diction, of discursive attitude.(6) The chapter is thus neatly brought full circle and sets the pattern of the book's discursive style, weaving the threads of memory into the present.(7) She is best when her discursive , rambling method strikes something eccentrically sharp and moving; not often in complete poems, though the sustained Lullaby here is a fine exception.(8) The richness of imagery and metaphor in the biblical writings, in its narrative, poetry, and more discursive writing, is such that it is bound to lead to readings which draw freely on the experience of the readers.(9) Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive .(10) But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota.(11) His discursive sentences begin, then wander playfully, searching under a rock for an insight or chasing a firefly to some understanding, before finally tying up, always neatly, his original point.(12) It is a long-winded, discursive discussion about benefits and costs, without any clarity at all.(13) I slip from the intra-discursive level to the inter-discursive level and begin critiquing the performative discursive mode in which the other person is speaking.(14) Because of this, associative ÔÇÿcorrespondencesÔÇÖ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.(15) His memoir, in a translation that preserves the author's gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay, is a social history embedded within an autobiography.(16) But over the past few weeks, I've felt that what I've written has neither provided interesting links, nor has it offered the discursive posts that I know I'm quite capable of doing.
