How To Use Disquisition In A Sentence
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Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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_ When we adhere to one point, whatever the form, it should rather be called a disquisition than a conversation.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
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The word disquisition has appeared in 15 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 12 in the essay The Ahab Parallax: 'Moby
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Later, as part of a rambling disquisition, which is allowed because, under the Commissions 'rules, he is permitted to represent himself, Mohammed addressed the desire for martyrdom that has also been prominent in previous hearings.
Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials
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Though a long poem, the book is interlarded with mixed genre elements, including a few treatises one on dung, another on literary narcissism and several essays, including little disquisitions on vipassana meditation, Whitman, C. S. Peirce, and Nancy Reagan.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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Really Robertson was undertaking a teacherly disquisition on the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil?
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Humfrey, in his "Peaceable Disquisitions," having animadverted on the spirit in which Clagett had dealt with Owen, Clagett published another volume, and promised a third on the opinions of the Fathers respecting the points at issue.
Pneumatologia
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Sparely and tautly written, this brilliant memoir of a daughter's longing for an elusive mother is a gripping read, but also something much more: a powerful disquisition on family life, full of hurts and love.
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Sweetly reasonable but utterly firm, and that tone characterizes her entire disquisition.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Others are more substantial, including a long disquisition in Spanish addressed to President Fox and attached to a house on the highway.
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All of them could have offered convenient launching pads for wise disquisitions infused with the wisdom of hindsight.
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The article in question is a learned disquisition upon the art of binding books - and other objects - in human skin.
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Their adjudications were neither for public consumption nor scholastic disquisition.
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There cannot, in nature, in theory, nor even in common sense, be a doubt of their equal right: but disquisitions on this point will remain rather curious than important, till the speculatist can superinduce to the abstract truth of the position some proof of its practicability.
Camilla
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To Mr. Johnson, of course, a 237-word disquisition on a Grecian formula for solvency is tantamount to "War and Peace.
The Soul of Brevity
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These things, I say, are always to be attended unto, in our whole disquisition into the nature of evangelical justification; for, without a constant respect unto them, we shall quickly wander into curious and perplexed questions, wherein the consciences of guilty sinners are not concerned; and which, therefore, really belong not unto the substance or truth of this doctrine, nor are to be immixed therewith.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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Score after score of decreta, decretales, Sextuses, and Clementines, and chestsful of the dreariest theological disquisition impress upon the weary searcher the fact that academic libraries were usually even more dryasdust than monastic collections, and he begins to understand how prosperous law may be as a calling, and to have an inkling of what is known, in classic phrase, as a good plain Scotch education.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Re-reading the draft of this report, I was tempted to excise this disquisition from the text as being irrelevant.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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Sweetly reasonable but utterly firm, and that tone characterizes her entire disquisition.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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The reader who opens his Aristotle and expects to find a systematic disquisition on some philosophical subject or an orderly textbook of scientific instruction, will be brought up short: Aristotle's treatises are not like that.
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And it is easy to find lengthy disquisitions from Macaulay, Churchill, Smuts, and the like to this effect.
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So the bishop was searched for by the Revs.Messrs. Grey and Green and found in one corner of the tent enjoying himself thoroughly in a disquisition on the hebdomadal board.
Barchester Towers
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Enthusiastically, I launched into a disquisition on how useful they were for marking out trails when hiking… until I realised that I was getting a very funny look.
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Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished.
Preface to Shakespeare
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His value to the blogosphere was clear from his very first post, a thousand-word disquisition on how boards of directors are a bit like an tonsils: "a largely useless, if mostly harmless, institution".
Felix Salmon - All posts
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Otherwise a disquisition on the subject will appear to be elusive and simply beyond our ken.
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An oblique allegory of violence, this painting is also a disquisition on how history impinges on the present, or fails to.
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He pursued, with visible pleasure, that kind of disquisition which was naturally suggested by them.
Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
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the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions
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Yet as any two marriages in society will yield a certain number of resemblances, so will any two wars in history, whether war itself be regarded as abstract or concrete, -- a question that seems to have exercised some grammatical minds, and ought therefore to be settled before any further step is taken in this disquisition, which is the disquisition of a grammarian.
The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
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In response, I will occasionally launch into a disquisition about Kuhn and Lakatos, but more often I give the following answer.
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Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him!
The Ragged Edge
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From this topic he transferred his disquisitions to the verb drink, which he affirmed was improperly applied to the taking of coffee, inasmuch as people did not drink, but sip or sipple that liquor; that the genuine meaning of drinking is to quench one's thirst, or commit a debauch by swallowing wine; that the Latin word, which conveyed the same idea, was bibere or potare, and that of the
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Re-reading the draft of this report, I was tempted to excise this disquisition from the text as being irrelevant.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The owner, who looks like a playboy footballer, keeps guests entertained with a succession of anecdotes, culinary disquisitions and impromptu bursts of song.
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He has produced a book chock-full of affecting vignettes, and that rarest of treats - an informed disquisition about public policy wrapped up in a fascinating narrative.
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What was a masterful, elegiac character study in the mould of Le Carré's classic A Perfect Spy becomes an angry disquisition on contemporary geopolitics.
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Selborne "few or no writers on Natural History, save Mr. Gosse and poor Mr. Edward Forbes, have had the power of bringing out the human side of science, and giving to seemingly dry disquisitions ... that living and personal interest, to bestow which is generally the special function of the poet.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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He closes with a disquisition on the meaning of Europe, examining the dark elements of racism and extreme nationalism but remaining optimistic and with a reflection on the EU which seems to be the repository of many of his hopes.
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Aware, however, that the term naturalness would lead to a deeper disquisition than I here mean to enter upon, I shall take it in its common meaning, as it represents the common aspect of nature.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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Some may find that Smith's heavy accent makes Andrey's disquisitions hard to follow, but her intense focus and gift for characterization carry her through.
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There are no pretentious disquisitions on the supposed post-modernist significance of trashy TV game shows.
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The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency, that, although two causes of delay occurred, each of much more serious duration than that which had drawn down his wrath upon the unlucky Mrs. Macleuchar, our = Antiquary = only bestowed on the delay the honour of a few episodical poohs and pshaws, which rather seemed to regard the interruption of his disquisition than the retardation of his journey.
The Antiquary
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After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour.
Agnes Grey
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To some extent, the heavily self-parodic aspects of the enterprise - at one point he reports on treating Tony Blair to a disquisition on the Shia, whom he compared to 'nut-rissole artists' - make the crazy-uncle outbursts less alarming.
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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
Fables
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Burke had an unrivalled gift for portraying the wider significance of the issues of the day in terms of general principles, and as a result many of his speeches contain disquisitions on political philosophy.
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The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced and enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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With engineering practice the disquisition discusses water supply & sewerage of - building on two sides.
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We find textbooks, readers, grammars; learned articles on scientific subjects; disquisitions on culture and public policy; even an ambitious early novel-all still virtually unknown today.
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To this may be added that too subtle disquisition, which is an invention unsanctioned by Scripture, about the relations of those acts which are performed by us.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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From Florence, you may, perhaps hear from me again, and receive a description instead of a disquisitional letter.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
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See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson.
Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
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I'm thinking especially of the photographs that accompany Austerlitz's architectural disquisitions.
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Though this seems on its face to be a disquisition on religion and faith, it is of course an argument about power, and its influence on truth.
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So in acknowledging that this book does include disquisitions on books and writers who may be unfamiliar to some readers, I also hope they will stimulate interest in further exploration.
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Vetera analecta, sive collectio veterum aliquot operum & opusculorum omms generis, carminum, epistolarum, diplomaton, epitaphiorum, &, cum itinere germanico, adnotationibus & aliquot disquisitionibus R. PD.
The Name of the Rose