discourse

The suggestion here was rather than falling for oversimplification and conspiracy theories when it comes to examining the interaction of “music, discourse and social action,” look to Beethoven.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

A visible part of the discourse about the Cornell Seven reveals how some have flatly rejected the possibility that Doe was assaulted, attacked her credibility and her appearance, and labeled the case as a “hoax.”

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Discover the truth about You Can See Everything: Nathan Fielder’s reality-bending documentary has prompted an explosion of discourse about Elizabeth Holmes’ trustworthiness and whether the convicted fraudster is actually a victim.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

But open discourse requires that every member of our community be able to speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Hausa people of Nigeria have an extraordinarily rich vocabulary for discourse about music, but no single word for music.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Mr. Howard has come to biography writing after a distinguished career in publishing at Doubleday Books, and he discourses with knowledge and zeal about Cowley’s second act as a revivalist and gatekeeper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The groups - known as akharas - have set up sprawling camps which have been a hive of activity, with tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting to hear religious discourses or attend evening prayers.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025

Or, instead, could former President Trump’s extended discourses demonstrate his genius — an ability, as he says, to “weave” disparate stories into a beautiful tapestry?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

“This campaign also shows the power that new media has in shaping discourses on governance.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

On Wednesday, Ono discoursed on group theory and theorems of Lagrange and Fermat as students watched him sketch, with a sure and rapid hand, the symbols of high-level math.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020

Our guide, young but practiced in the art of distracting cold tourists, poured hot berry juice and discoursed on Arctic matters.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019

In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018

According to the film historian Kevin Brownlow, the crew sometimes took the film out of the camera and continued to crank as Tree discoursed, so as not to waste precious feet of celluloid.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015

Inwardly apologising, I outwardly commiserated him, and we discoursed.

From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

Deploying broad historical knowledge and a keen comparative eye, he does an enormous amount of discoursing around the premise that “the clothes we wear today are anachronistic, irrational and harmful.”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2019

His image should be what politicians and elected officials envision before they begin discoursing about what can we do, what must we do, to ensure this does not happen again.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2018

"That's like a field trip to heaven," says Mara, who seconds earlier was discoursing on the debilitating effects of screen life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2018

But those kinds of civilized, delegated, televised festivals of catharsis and confession have moved to the internet, which empowers more people to do more clashing and defending than discoursing.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016

Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations, and was quite glad of the excuse not to stop and say hello....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling