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• s  proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
• s  (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
  a rambling discursive book

• Although at times labored and discursive, the book mostly makes engrossing reading.
• In some cases it is better to be discursive in your decision making rather than just trusting your gut.
• And a West Texas sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) tracks their discursive trails.

• dianoetic
• digressive
• excursive
• rambling

News & Articles

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• 'Barbecue Crossroads': To really understand barbecue
  Barbecue – and by that I mean real barbecue, meat cooked long and slow near (not over) a smoldering fire, until it is tender enough to fall to pieces but still moist enough to be delicious – is a discursive art. It takes as much time as it takes, and things will happen, some of them planned, and there will be ample opportunity in between for conversation, music and philosophy.
  June 26, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Anne Kornblut in San Francisco Chronicle
  In answer to a question from Doris of Lake Wylie, SC, Kornblut wrote that Obama gave a 17-minute response that lulled "the crowd into a daze" as "his discursive answer - more than 2,500 words long - wandered from topic to topic."
• Timothy Garton Ash in New Statesman
  Describing the pieces collected in Facts Are Subversive, Timothy Garton Ash writes: "I conceive these mini-essays as an English version of the journalistic genre known as a feuilleton; a discursive, personal exploration of a theme, often...
• Dave Eggers in New Statesman
  This is writing of extraordinary syntactic control, and it is characteristic of what Eggers describes as Wallace's "dense, discursive, and insanely detailed style".