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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

Now, 180 years later, the same engaging discursiveness envelops us in the most successful portions of “Death and Mr. Pickwick,” Stephen Jarvis’s formidably knowledgeable, obsessive riff on all things Pickwick.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2015

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

The nature of my studies—and the Père kept me rigidly to the desk—offered little to the discursiveness of fancy.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various