excursive

I noticed that Goblet of Fire was absurdly excursive, too.

Maybe it is Bruckner's orderliness against Mahler's excursive narrative.

Cardamom oil is an excursive train ride through Madurai, banyan trees and temples whizzing by.

He and the characters he describes slip too easily into sermonic discourse and excursive asides.

In one of these excursive glances she perceived among a group of young men, the very he, who had given them a lecture on toothpick-cases at Gray's.

Over those instantaneous associations we have little power; for when the mind is once enlarged by excursive flights, or profound reflection, the raw materials will, in some degree, arrange themselves.

It is not business, extensive plans, or any of the excursive flights of ambition, that engross their attention; no, their thoughts are not employed in rearing such noble structures.

Checking various functional movements like swallowing, respiration, speech, opening and closing and excursive movements of the mandible and careful palpation of both temporomandibular jointsis important.

Set in chapters that alternate past and present, "Human Croquet" opens with an excursive yet breezy account of the first few million years of the great Forest of Lythe.

Woods teamed with James M. Lyon while both were attending Princeton in 1972 to produce the unprecedented, excursive INTERCAL programming language.

It wasthe epic, excursive "My Generation" that reallysent me, Pete Townshend's riffs leading the group through a series ofhigh-drama instrumental vignettes the studio version had never even hinted at.

Then into the quiet room came Susan Nipper and the candles; shortly afterwards, the tea, the Captain, and the excursive Mr Toots, who, as above mentioned, was frequently on the move afterwards, and passed but a restless evening.

They cast an excursive glance around, that passed coldly over the burly faces of the peasantry, until they met the eyes of the nobleman's family, when their countenances immediately brightened into smiles, and they made the most profound and elegant courtesies, which were returned in a manner that showed they were but slight acquaintances.