(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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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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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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I become, however, a trifle excursive, I think.
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But the argument is one of too grave, too intricate, and excursive a character, to be attempted here.
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Fortunately I was too tired last night to be excursive in fancy, or I might have slept badly.
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Her excursive spirit, her inquisitive mind, were, after all, in spite of all differences, his gift to her.
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Pope, Spenser, Chaucer, and the old dramatic writers were all dipped into, with the excursive flight of a swallow.
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There he shows himself the same kind, artless, good-humored, excursive, sensible, whimsical, intelligent being that he appears in his writings.
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As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry continual, his writings are very numerous and his subjects various.
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On Fancy's eagle wing excursive soar;
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While the two armies lay encamped in the neighbourhood of each other, nothing passed but skirmishes among the light troops, and little excursive expeditions.
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The young mind of Colleton, excursive as it was, could scarcely realize to itself the strange and rapidly-succeeding changes of the last few days.
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With him she would have the free and useful, the amusing and excursive life of an American woman married to a man of wealth.