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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice
I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.
We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.
Political discourse has been reduced to "Where's the beef?" "Read my lips," and "Make my day." Where are the assassins when we really need them?
In addition to the executive responsibility of handling and managing the government, the president has an important voice that sets the tone for much of our national discourse.
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.
I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason
The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.
I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.
The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
