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discursively



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The novels meander discursively through time, so it does not matter where one begins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Throughout this discursively soulful book runs a series of interconnected questions: Why did I make it when so many others didn’t?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024

But discursively, conversationally, verbally, at some semantic level, she remained my mom.

From Salon ● May 9, 2022

It ventures discursively, “Hedwig” style, through hilarious stories and moving fables, some of which Mitchell draws from his own life and transmutes, miraculously, into a weird and wonderful alloy.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2019

From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he lived an idle and self-indulgent life, reading discursively, but not studying the prescribed course.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee




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