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It’s a persuasive picture of a working artist, often fretting about money and trying to leverage his connections, and the actor makes the most of Hujar’s amusing, slightly abashed discursiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

That the new season of “Problem Areas” centers on education issues is a useful strategy for containing Cenac’s antic tangents and absurdist discursiveness.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2019

At the same time, “Westworld” stays true to an ongoing discursiveness that both exalts in and cautions against the creation of artificially conscious beings.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2018

This discursiveness wouldn’t last, but most of the characterizations would: The sarcastic, neurotic Chandler, too-reasonable Monica, space-cadet Phoebe, and lovelorn Ross are all here, more or less fully formed.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2014

But though we are tolerant of discursiveness where it affects only the flow of the story, we like it less where it disturbs the flow of the style.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various