Antonym: intuitive. Similar words: excursion, discuss, discussion, discourse, nursing, biscuit, obscurity, obscurely. Meaning: [dɪ'skɜːsɪv] adj. 1. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition 2. (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
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1) The first is discursive or verbal consciousness.
2) These transition-metaphors operate at several discursive levels.
3) Now their conversation was discursive and jokey.
4) Rich's novels are circling and discursive.
5) What Brooke-Rose does with discursive and textual matter in much of her previous fiction she does here with personae.
6) This discursive attack is paralleled by a scathing social critique.
7) There was no neat distinction between juridical and discursive forms of power.
8) In the first, the discursive,(http://sentencedict.com/discursive.html) the secondary process makes inroads into the primary process.
9) Yet, any critical attempt to reduce to discursive terms the emotional and poetic appeal of the film seems doomed to failure.
10) But such analyses do not take the discursive power of historical and social relations seriously enough.
11) The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs.
12) For a human reader a discursive natural language definition is a more sensible format.
13) They complained that my writing was becoming too discursive.
14) The purpose and methods of discursive OD were analysed.
15) the discursive style of the novel.
16) He is a discursive person.
17) We're in the same world,the same linguistic,the same discursive the same theological world as the Gospel of John.
18) An elegant study, combining sound judgement of Trollope's characterisation with an excellent discursive style.
19) This will involve a study of differences in kinds of knowledge and discursive practices.
20) Derrida himself is interested in the tension created between discursive play and history.
21) The tendency toward enclosure and fixed meanings is thus political and personal, as well as discursive.
22) The rules of grammar are intended to analyse the structure underlying this discursive order.
23) Conversely, poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms.
24) Hemingway's short sentences derive their power from their revolt against earlier, more discursive styles.
25) I believe that the major discontinuity lies in the discursive forms through which positions of racial superiority are constructed.
26) One definition is exchanged for another, semantic currency is taken from one discursive economy and converted into the currency of another.
27) The slightly lower figure may relate to the more discursive nature of the subject.
28) In a given set of students, some will be more verbal, while others will be more discursive, needing time to think through a response before presenting it to an instructor or peers.
29) I suggest in the course of the book that certain interpretations of reason and clear understanding as discursive rationality have damaged ethical thought itself and distorted our conceptions of it.
30) A first contact with John Ashbery's poems often throws readers into confusion with his multifarious, usually longwinded and discursive, verses which seem to have no distinctive characteristics at all.
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