discourse
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Both have recently set up new “civics schools”—the School of Civic Leadership in Texas and the Hamilton School in Florida—to promote civil discourse and liberal arts in the Western tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
What was designed to ostensibly be a great equalizer has only divided the world more, making animosity easily accessible to anyone who gets their rocks off on sewing discourse through cruelty.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
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
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
To continue the historicall narration of these experiments would make a discourse too tedious & confused, & therefore...’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In this way, the parallels and connections between European and non-Western antiliberal discourses are neatly illustrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
As the self-promoting overseer of X, he holds outsize influence over the countries whose political and electoral discourses still—for persistent lack of better alternatives—center on the text-based platform once known to them as Twitter.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
Dr. Roland’s discourses on his “practices” could sometimes take half an hour or more.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
He discoursed on the supremacy of brown antlers — which are fresh with blood — to white ones.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 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
Pity it is we cannot procure all that these Ladies have so privately, as they thought, discoursed; but we are very happy in having what follows, which came to our Knowledge by a mere Accident.
But there will be plenty of time for hyping and discoursing this summer.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
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
The old warrior, with his shining bald head and huge hands, looked as if he would prefer battle to discoursing in council.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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