How To Use Discourse In A Sentence

How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate?
This kind of discourse is at the opposite pole from storytelling as defined by Benjamin.
Discourse doesn't have to stoop to the level unreturnable. Hillary On Obama's Speeches: "It's Change You Can Xerox"
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
How can the social conditions be established which practical discourse would require? The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition

That they are not can be demonstrated by the way in which the term pulp was introduced into literary discourse. Genres and niche markets
Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse. Times, Sunday Times
These were now crystallized in an expanded discourse on male and female sexuality.
He stared at the object of discourse , as one might do at a strange repulsive animal.
Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
To say the word god in American public discourse is to conjure up a number of images and ideas that serve to undermine democracy in name of religious freedom. Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: 'Gods, Gays and Guns' (EXCERPT)
The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
They are demeaning the quality of public discourse, and setting an appalling example to young people. Times, Sunday Times
He knew some members of the congregation, including the president, grew restive during his discourse, and would have preferred a more oratorical, hortative style, but he felt his type of sermon was more in keeping with his basic function of teacher, implicit in the word "rabbi. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
Learners at the advanced stage use their own creativity and seek delicate discriminations of meaning, stylistic niceties, subtleties of culture and discourse, and greater acquaintance with the language.
I believe very strongly in many of these ideas but they can be hard to communicate, especially when the discourse is peppered with terminology like "peri-urban," "phytoremediation," and "bioregional ecologies. Dave Snyder: The Good, the Bad and the Fungi on a Rooftop Farm
Had A.C. M. recollected that tobacco (_Nicotiana_) is an American plant, he would hardly have asked whether "_tobacco_ is the word in the original" of the tradition mentioned by Sale in his _Preliminary Discourse_, § 5.p. 123. (4to. ed. Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
In her study of ufology, Jodi Dean comments that the discourse of ufologists claims to be reasonable, ‘but everyone else finds what they are saying incomprehensible.’
In the third chapter, I discourse upon the exercise of the CIS tactic and its merits.
OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
It is likely that in normal discourse, the context of the sentences will help to resolve these potential ambiguities.
We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives (because, although) and referential expressions (anaphors, cataphors).
Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
Scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism note the radical universalism underlying sentimental discourse as well as the broad values of political and social equality it assumes.
Medici_, published in 1642, and _Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial_, 1658, a discourse upon rites of burial and incremation, suggested by some Roman funeral urns, dug up in Norfolk. Brief History of English and American Literature
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
Several sociolinguists have discussed the ethnography of cross cultural discourse conventions in the law court in the United States.
Candidates should engage in serious political discourse.
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com
If in this way we are to understand any thing of God's nature, we must by consequence understand so much of our own nature: that is, that it is a reasonable nature, that it is an intelligent nature, that it is a nature capable of improving itself in point of knowledge, by ratiocination and discourse; and even of knowledge concerning the highest and greatest, and first knowable, that is God and the very nature of God. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
Here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse. Pride and Prejudice
However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career.
Discourse is thereby conceived as a ‘generative mechanism’ rather than as a self-referential sphere in which nothing of significance exists outside it.
Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange. November 2006
In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. San Francisco Sentinel
This is a strange sub-species of free indirect discourse. The Times Literary Supplement
Nor do you, but at least mine has a logical explanation while yours merely relies on a fresh ladleful from the bottomless pit of bile that constitutes discourse from the right these days. Discourse.net: White House Puts its Media Skills to Work on Diplomacy
Coming into reasoned discourse and proving that you are a fellow mouth-breather is tiring as it happens again and again. Discourse.net: Economist.com Does '7 Questions for Dan Froomkin'
Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon. The Story of Pocahontas
In fact, practical discourse depends on contingent subject matter for its very existence. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
Similarly, no scribe in antiquity could have worked with such a typology, for every variation in the objects could never be registered in bureaucratic discourse.
Obama's dignified elevation of our national discourse through honesty, depth, and nuance was greeted by ratings-esurient tabloid news, race-baiting commentary, and rancorous replay of Wright -- ad nauseam. Shaun Jacob Halper: Beyond Jeremiah: A New Kind of Media for Obama's New Kind of Politics
On the other hand, the war discourse about Malraux's own war experiences becomes the dominant discourse in his writing, thus making his writing highly unified in language and style.
On narrative discourse, the existing classification dig out the profound implication imbedded in every genre.
Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
Thus, pronouns in discourse anaphora are not variables bound by their quantifier antecedents.
Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne. Camilla
Severing political discussion from decision and action, however, focuses the locus of Habermasian politics strictly on discussion and what he calls a discourse theory of democracy. LeverWealth
To what extent does this sequence correspond to a native speaker's processing of discourse?
In light of the examples of occult texts offered above, occult discourse is the result of a rhetorical antinomy between a belief and an action.
With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the time passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise some mode of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at present resided, without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed no very easy task, since the laird was a very zealous friend to government. Waverley
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
This screen was placed there at the time she found herself obliged to take to her chamber; and in the depth of our concern, and the fulness of other discourse at our first interview, I had forgotten to apprize the Colonel of what he would probably see. Clarissa Harlowe
This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
The passage from esoteric scientific theory into everyday discourse describes the prototype of objectification.
The idea has also entered the public discourse, influencing debates on school curriculums and standardised tests.
Honourable friends, I remember a discourse sometime made unto me, concerning the Countrey of Persia, and a kind of custome there observed, not to be misliked in mine opinion. The Decameron
Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage.
Young’s evocation of reggae is not located in language or even a evoking of the discourse of reggae. Translation: Better Than Never Kissing At All : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
Women are subject to this discourse both in the name of religion as well as in the name of age-old customs and traditions.
It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
In isolating such groups for surveillance and regulation, the profession was drawing on changes within medical discourse.
Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
Some of the goals of a non-epistemology are as follows: to free up the use of epistemological discourses; to refuse to submit them to the directions for use imposed by the putative synthesis of its objects; to transform the amphibolies of epistemology into particular objects without merely overturning oppositions.
They deliberately used Pali, the language of the common folk for their discourses, not Sanskrit.
First comes the long, learned or at least verisimilar discourse on the virtue of one item versus another, followed by effusive congratulations on the discernment and taste evident in the customer's choice. The Charms and Trials of Italian Shopping
I will then deal with the question of whether or not the requirements for practical discourse are compatible with criminal procedure. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous.
Discourse anaphora in most cases refers to direct anaphora only, with little reference to indirect anaphora.
This work exemplifies the analytical power of critical discourse analysis by illustrating how language is utilized as a tool for political ends.
Major transformations within medical discourse provided the theoretical conditions for this perceived advance.
In isolating such groups for surveillance and regulation, the profession was drawing on changes within medical discourse.
They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box.
Further, in the sociomorphic and anthropomorphic nature of the morphology that is paranoically and schizophrenically projected upon realty, the God class comes to articulate the discourses at play in our notions of society and humanity. Archive 2007-04-01
To achieve this aim in oral discourse, speakers use visual cues provided by paralanguage, kinesics and synchrony to complement verbal language.
The political discourse instead centered on when and whether the two Republicans chasing Dole might withdraw.
Someone asked about the word asshat, a word with growing utility in our oh-so shrill and radical lefty bloggy discourse. Firedoglake » Gender and Identity Politics
Structural patterns in linguistic and thematic features can contribute to the suasory force of a discourse.
_Brackets_ include a word or words mentioned as a matter of discourse, as, _The little word_ [man] _makes a great noise_, &c. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
In trying to determine such regularities, the discourse analyst will typically adopt the traditional methodology of descriptive linguistics.
Radical discourses typically recommend some form of self-criticism, often involving a split self.
He treats us to a long discourse on "banded mail", the full-faced bucket helms are probably fifty years too hi-tech, the use of a barrier in tournament is a tad precocious. Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"
The discourses of gender, religion, and post-colonialism inform his use of the literatures, both Irish language and Anglo-Irish, from that period.
Northern-dominated government may have blunted the appeal of the development discourse among the majority of south-eastern voters.
insurrectionist" discourses that attempt to escape the common political traps and make conflict an end-in-itself. Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
Are these not the very pages on which the national discourse is forged? Times, Sunday Times
The implications of such claims, needless to say, are a far cry from traditionary assumptions about romance being a tissue of impossible fantasies and history being a discourse of empirical truth.
Reminded me very much of Pier’s Anthony’s discourse on fungi in I think Omnivore, where I saw the word saprophyte for the first time. They Are Everywhere Among Us, Their Work Not Yet Done
As a representational act, landscape architecture has a responsibility to further the discourse on contemporary notions of nature and urbanity.
And that such as have a great and false opinion of their own wisdom take upon them to reprehend the actions and call in question the authority of them that govern, and so to unsettle the laws with their public discourse, as that nothing shall be a crime but what their own designs require should be so. Leviathan
Anglican sermons were often unanimated moral discourses.
Gender discourse is interwoven through national security discourse. Exploring language (6th edn)
We are, after all, performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis.
I hope thou hast also undergone that true baphometic fire-baptism, whereof the worthy Diogenes Teufelsdröckh hath discoursed so appetizingly, causing us to long after it, none the less that he hath scrupulously refrained from expounding whatever it is. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
In fact, practical discourse depends on contingent subject matter for its very existence. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Neoliberal triumphalism, globalism, a widespread discourse: what were OGXers supposed to do aboutthem? Archive 2009-11-01
As witnessed in the controversy over Ebonics, the mainstream discourse has focused on images of African Americans rather than the historical, cultural, and linguistic developments of Black English.
Hmmm … Here’s how to define the blog called “Buzzmachine”: a blog that tries to appear “liberal” but in actuality is operated by the right wing so as to manage liberal discourse and keep it within narrow parameters, never cutting too close to the bone. Defying definition « BuzzMachine
That is his God, his Christ, his worship; that he preaches, that he discourseth of, that he labours to propagate, until, by the righteous judgment of God, it comes to pass that such men in all other things wither and die away, all the sap and vigour of their spirits feeding that one monstrous excrescency, which they grow up daily into. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Insist that our opponents engage us in reasoned discourse, and insist that they address our rational arguments with rational arguments of their own. ProWomanProLife » Back to school
Ecological discourse' can thus be seen as the most productive cultural form for generating and mobilising ideological consensus and dissentious in modern societies.
He was hoping for some lively political discourse at the meeting.
These were now crystallized in an expanded discourse on male and female sexuality.
How can the social conditions be established which practical discourse would require? The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
They wrote with an intensity and a biting edge which was unusual in intellectual discourse hitherto.
It may, perhaps, be a question, whether the art which he used to conceal his passion, or the means which honest nature employed to reveal it, betrayed him most: for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him. VI. By Comparing Which with the Former, the Reader May Possibly Correct Some Abuse Which He Hath Formerly Been Guilty of in the Application of the Word Love. Book V
It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
The discourse of Sarah Palin and her friends is appalling on its own, but worse is the way in which their readings of the Constitution and American history in general have been accepted as uncontroversially true by so many voters. Robin Lakoff: Education: Yes, but Why?
Cultural programmes by the Songs & Drama Division organized at Government Higher Secondary School, All India Devotional Song Competition at Shri Yog Ashram, religious discourses at Regunath Mandir, free langer by Seva Bharti and exhibition stalls by various departments were the other highlights of the Festival which is attracting thousands of devotees and locals. Navratra festival--1.70 lakh pilgrims pay obeisance at Vaishno Devi during first five Navratras
Having identified the discourse functions of antonymy in adult writing and speech, I'm now examining children's language to discover how and when ‘opposites’ are first learnt.
The public discourse is heavily dominated at present by a perception whether welcomed or deprecated of student instrumentalism. C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: A Life of Learning
The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them.
Some of our people, listening in on our ancestors' imagined, other-worldly discourse, hear only the endless repetition of the never again.
The topic framework consists of elements derivable from the physical context and from the discourse domain of any discourse fragment.
We tend to just be all introverted and quiet around each other and then pine for the missed intellectual discourse we could have had.
So any perception by conservatives that progressives are intractable is itself only further demonstration of THEIR absolute unwillingness to engage in anything which might, by even the most reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for reasoned discourse or genuine political interchange. Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
At Milan, where at first he used to come to the cathedral to admire Ambrose's oratorical skill, he found himself not only impressed by the content of the discourses but also gripped by the psalm chants.
Roth the poet and the rhetor excel in artistic performance when they transcend the ordinary modes of their respective discourses to create extraordinary effects.
But people don’t write or speak in encapsulated single thoughts – they communicate in texts, in paragraphs, in extended discourse. National Grammar Day 2009: Ten Common Grammar Myths, Debunked « Motivated Grammar
The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.
The title article calls for “retrenchment” in the “humanitarian missions” abroad that are consuming the country’s wealth, so as to arrest the American decline that is a major theme of international affairs discourse, usually accompanied by the corollary that power is shifting to the East, to China and maybe India. Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World
George Mason, on the other hand, has an unusual emphasis in policy discourse and economic homiletics. Scholastics and Pietists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
They neglect the efforts of those who have regarded scientific and religious discourse as complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
Despite this racial discourse, rural Belizean Creoles developed alternative systems of natural resource use based in part upon small-scale agricultural production.
Which is precisely what political discourse requires. Times, Sunday Times
The cultural text remains alive and continues to speak in a discourse of oppression.
Ironically, it is the public health discourse that has given the debate a new twist, confluent with the new discourse of economic efficiency and quality management.
However, there are some interesting comparisons to be made between the discourse of the physical scientists and that of the physicists.
With its emphasis on personification and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse.
Their object in public discourse is not merely to inform, but to persuade and convince. Cultural Anthropology
Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse.
In other words, only the paragraph structure of stretches of discourse about individual, primarily human, characters is being discussed.
He provides a careful analysis of the relationship between the functional and structural characteristics of different types of discourse.
Such a grim reality is obviously a far cry from the human and social requirements necessary for practical discourse. The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
Conversely, interactional difficulties may lead to an unexpected shift in frame and discourse type.
Many textbooks do show awareness of the need to deal with different discourse types, but few confront the issue of identification.
I am apt to receive less of what is called edification from human discourses on divine subjects, than disturbance and hindrance. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
Because the discourse concerning the textural semiotics of Titus's sexualized offerings is not of a sufficiently academic nature to be the object of attention in an admittedly sui generis blog having its origins within an academic context, it it appropriate to say a few more words concerning the deconstructive sexualization and postcapitalist transgressive character of Titus's texts. About my proposed Titus recording.
“I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George,” he would say, in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of man, and his faults, and shortcomings; and wonder why Heaven had not made us all brave and tall, and handsome and rich? The Virginians
Upon his favourite topic of discourse, it is said that he was quite unable to bear contradiction.
Yet this structuring of discourse along the patterns of dialogue has an effect at the most detailed, grammatical level.
Furthermore, demonstrative nominal and demonstrative pronominal anaphors appeared to function quite differently in expressing differences in transition stages of discourse referents.
It represents a direct divine revelation that delivers a capacity for understanding beyond the parameters of normal discourse.
I have again discoursed, and mingled my soul, with friends whose nobility of spirit honored the illustrious stems from which they sprang; but, like the blossomed bough torn from its branch, they are gone, and spread fragrance in my path no more. The Scottish Chiefs
But scientific discourse doesn't work in the same way as political discourse. Times, Sunday Times
In the US mainland, the Filipino Americans' immediate location, colonial discourses are syncretized into a culture that advocates their assimilation.
BLOCK: And Peter Sloma (ph) of Fish Creek, Wisconsin had this to say: While so much of the rest of the news media is destroying any potential we have left for rational public discourse, NPR has made the choice of joining in by serving up this bleeding, gristled hunk of red meat - and over and over again, at that. Letters: The Florida Pastor And 'No Crying In Baseball'
As Taiwan's case suggests,'vernacularism'is a complex politico - cultural discourse, particularly in the colonial context.
I also choose to continue with the discourse of addiction, in spite of the compelling arguments about its limits and fallibility, because it allies me with people who are living in ways I value.
In the face of this equation, genuine political discourse disappears. Exploring language (6th edn)
Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced "too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it," the Answerer declares, "This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
-- I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my own of writing half words, and leaving out some altogether so as yet to keep the substance and language of any discourse which I had heard so much in view, that I could give it very completely soon after I had taken it down. Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Reform-era sexology appropriated the degenerative/regenerative discourse of the natural selection model as a way to establish a new lexicon that would address sexuality more specifically.
Hollis was forced to sit with the wounded party in a room at Gurney's Inn, suffering a lengthy discourse on surfcasting etiquette. AMAGANSETT
Benjamin valorizes those art movements - Dada and Surrealism - that consciously attack bourgeois notions of artistic autonomy, while aligning Futurism with the aestheticized discourse of fascism.
There is a proliferation of religious discourses centering on spirits, spirit possession, and witchcraft.
There is a certain relish that some on the left side of the political divide take in attacking progressives in a way that ensures that the boundaries of political discourse will be policed consistent with an information environment slanted in favor of the right-wing. Jonathan Weiler: On False Equivalencies
The tone of your critique seems to say that conceptual poetics is not enough and in some way needs to move outside of its own discourse in order to validate your own sense of worth, which is something that conceptual poetics may never do: might be a case of round pegs in square holes. To Be (Un)Real : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The gender differences explored here are social constructions that have had influence in certain mainstream discourses.
Chinese elected to serve him, and discoursed fatherly to Leo on the iniquities and abominations of the flowing bowl. CHAPTER XXIX
The investigation focused on how non-native speakers use intonation to signal meaning in the structure of their discourse.
Blackwell's radical ideas point to the tentative beginnings of a discourse on active female sexuality.
The quality of political discourse these days remains high. Times, Sunday Times
It is relevant that Bishop was an indefatigable keeper of notebooks, a fact that implies approval of diaristic discourse.
The minds of persons are differently constituted; and it is no praise to mine to admit that I am apt to receive less of what is called edification from human discourses on divine subjects, than disturbance and hindrance. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Comparing politicians to evil dictators is offensive, shrill, and coarsens the political discourse.
Furthermore, such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse.
Which is precisely what political discourse requires. Times, Sunday Times
It is for this reason that this Court has recognized the inherent value of free discourse.
A harshness, a suspicion, a reductiveness has entered public discourse. Times, Sunday Times
_ On the cocke & hen L. Andrewe discourses as follows: Early English Meals and Manners
As more people become politically active, the greater the extent of partisan pamphleteering as opposed to more moderate discourse.
Martin Buber claims three ways of discourses, namely, discourse proper, technical discourse, and monologue in disguise of discourse.
Pitchfork discoursed, political retorts, robotic ones we are We are the rising
Ditto for your discourse on football.
The Meteors is divided into ten discourses on a variety of topics: terrestrial bodies, vapours and exhalations, the nature of salt, winds, clouds, rainbows, snow and hail, storms, and a few other phenomena.
I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country.
Addressing an audience that was torn between the demythologizing heritage of the enlightenment on the one hand, and attempts to reassert traditional moral and religious principles on the other, Scott combines the economic amoralism of progressive historical discourse with the romance of disinterested personal virtue. Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
The collocation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the swearing in of the country's first black president has occasioned much discourse on the state of race relations in the U.S., most of it somehow centered around whether we're in a "post-racial" society or not. Archive 2009-01-01
New Urban communities provide designed public realms whose purpose is to re-energize public discourse.
It's the walkback scheme, where he lets these outside groups walk out these slurs/smears against Barack Obama, and then those slurs/smears are walked back with a 'denouncement' from McCain, but once they've been walked out and back, they still leave that behind in the public discourse. Swift Boat Vet Operative Vows To "Attack Obama Viciously"
The following, then, is less a straight recapitulation of plot and character than it is an introduction to the basic discourses at work in one of Rivette's most important films.
Furthermore, speech has its own structure, independent of discourse structure and sentence structure - think about the phrase-sized groupings you can hear in skilled doubletalk.
Verb-phrase anaphora occurs when a verb-phrase depends for its interpretation on another verb-phrase occurring earlier in the spoken or written discourse.
In many cases, the conventions of academic discourse force researchers to make these assumptions even more explicit and specific.
My girl friend discoursed on a topic she had grown greatly interested in.
In the specialised discourse of contemporary scholarship, the connection between learning and living is often lost.
The discourse studies the preparation of rice straw hemicellulosic hydrolysate for production of xylitol by fermentation.
In the face of this equation, genuine political discourse disappears. Exploring language (6th edn)
However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.” Fielding
It also presupposes the possibility of meaningful references to different topics of discourse.
It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will.

How To Use Discourse In A Sentence

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