The word discursive has appeared in 34 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 20 in “Nicolas Cage Is in on the Nicolas Cage Jokes” by Sarah Lyall:

The Cage of today is measured, courteous, thoughtful and discursive. He’s particularly so when discussing the cinematic inspirations for his stylized acting approach: silent films and German expressionist movies like “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” which he used to watch with his father, August, who died in 2009 and was the brother of Francis Ford Coppola. (In “Massive Talent,” Cage’s character refers to his “nouveau shamanic acting ability.”)

He has an endless enthusiasm for discussing cinema — movies he likes, movies he has made, things that happened on movie sets, the time when, as a boy walking in Beverly Hills carrying a bucket of fish from the pet store, he imagined he was John Travolta striding down the street in the opening scene of “Saturday Night Fever,” which had recently been released.

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