disquisition

But American audiences still tend to be fed documentaries of only a few types: true crime stories, cult exposés, hagiographies, and educational disquisitions full of talking heads.

Seated on a podium, looking down on journalists, Mr. Macron offered an extended, at times professorial, disquisition on the state of France and its place in a troubled world.

As Mr. Zhu led a tour of the grounds, he stopped by the chicken enclosure to offer a disquisition on economic history.

It is also a disquisition on the body, the nature of identity and the brutality of love.

And later his disquisition of the three forms of passion: love, crime, and sometimes a fruit.