(Of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.
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Remember, Jodie Foster only came out in a rambling speech last year.
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Hilda remained listening in the lobby to the interminable and rambling instruction.
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His poor broken brain was rambling in the ways of the past.
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There was something sinister in the unfriendly shadow of the rambling house.
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She states that in general her mind is both romantic and rambling.
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But it's also a wildly digressive attempt to comprehend the animals themselves.
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Though he was curious about the creatures' physiology, the digressive report deflated his interest.
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These examples, deliberately digressive, are certain of their uncertainties, artful in their apparent artlessness.
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But however digressive your mind may be, do not suffer your eyes to digress.
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In its digressive, batty narrative voice, it resembles a novel cited by the narrator: Tristram Shandy.
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Money was plenty among these excursive groups, and they were welcomed in
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At the concluding word, Mrs. Chump was no longer sustained by her excursive fancy.
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Nero politely routed an excursive bug from his path and lay down to listen.
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He liked the unaffected, quiet conversation of Manning, the vivacious, excursive talk of Leigh Hunt.
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This excursive time was an awakening for Swithin.
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Contesting that meaning through discursive struggle constitutes a challenge to that power.
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Its approach to variation techniques is discursive, and the result seemed overlong.
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But there are many discursive remarks in it worth gathering and considering.
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The reflective attitude as opposed to the discursive was new to him.
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He wasted no second of time, nor did he permit discursive interruption.
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His reasons were numerous and ingenious, and, as usual, a little discursive.
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No discursive process intervenes; one simply knows the phenomenon as it is experienced.
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But the walks of Marie may, in general, be supposed discursive.
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Therefore there was no discursive or collative knowledge in the soul of Christ.
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Stein offers directors words, while freeing them from the rigours of discursive meaning.
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Objection 1: It seems that the knowledge of God is discursive.
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Objection 1: It would seem that the knowledge of an angel is discursive.
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Therefore it seems that there was no collative or discursive knowledge in Christ.
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The passive reason is the faculty which rises through discursive thinking to knowledge.
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Tell not me of your discursive faculty: The word of God is plain.
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He grew less discursive when they fell in with his suggestion.
