paratactic

• At first this tended to chill the emotional tone, perhaps inevitably since it involved applying to her cast at large a method which had been used mainly for disliking people or plotting serial murders - such passages tended to be quite paratactic, and ran the risk of reducing characters to bundles of undifferentiated impulses. —  California Literary Review
• And he's the most quotational, referential, & paratactic of the lot - in short, the most Poundian (or David Jonesian). —  GotPoetry.com News
• He has managed to find a cinematic equivalent of the paratactic style appropriate to epic, where one declarative statement follows another, and one event follows another, without any significant degree of authorial or grammatical intervention to explain or rationalize the relationship between them. —  The American Spectator
• Of course, no prose is all one or the other, but the prose of Obama's inauguration is surely more paratactic than hypotactic, and in this it resembles the prose of the Bible with its long lists and serial "ands." —  Corrente
• Obama relies on paratactic structures that demand close textual reading, but he speaks in a cadence that reflects an oral tradition. —  Secondary Worlds: Teaching, Technology, and English Language Arts

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