discursion
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What catapults “Beatlebone,” thrillingly and frustratingly, into the realm of the near-great is an abrupt discursion that occurs about two-thirds of the way through.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2015
They move easily between travelogue and historical analogy, personal experience and philosophical meditation, discursion and sharp statement.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015
Wilson treats her with a restorative seriousness, a great capacity for discursion, and a biblical grasp of lineage.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2013
Highlights include his objections to the coarsening of modern discourse, his fondness for Seinfeld, the rationale behind his fiery dissents, and a rather remarkable discursion about the devil.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2013
Nevertheless by such discursion reason comes to know what intellect learns without it, namely, the universal.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
