discursive

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Employing a stagy New York accent, and saddled with a distractingly unfortunate blond wig, Ms. McCann delivers a long, discursive monologue both boastful and aggressively flirtatious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

Fans of Nunez’s tartly discursive yet flowing novel will likely miss the snap of its critical observations on literary mind-sets and whatnot.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

What changed in the years since the beginning of the #MeToo movement is the presumption that strong enough discursive pushback might indeed lead to actual banishment.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2024

The theory of signs originates in the law, and signs are treated as if they speak because court cases are discursive performances.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton