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*: Normal Discourse: is defined as me talking, you listening, and me ordering, and you doing.
McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010
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Discourse is any connected piece of speaking or writing (like this).
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Discourse is great -- but let's try English, with coherent, linked thoughts.
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Discourse is a very popular way of motivating sales teams.
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This Discourse is published at the request of Governor Pickering,
A Great Man Fallen! 1865
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In preferring this request, as we now do, we desire to express, for ourselves and for the Congregation, our conviction that the Discourse is eminently entitled to a place among the permanent memorials of our great national bereavement.
A Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln 1865
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I'm glad to see you so well employ'd my Lord, as in Discourse with my Lord Whitlock he's of our party, and has Wit.
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Though they do not detail the governments and institutions in invented polities, they do depict the interactions of people in imaginary settings that evoke interactions in the spectators’ world; the purpose of the depictions, explicitly theorized in the Introductory Discourse, is to criticize certain behavior patterns and to arouse a desire to change them.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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It was Richard Price who, in an 1789 pamphlet called Discourse on the Love of Our Country, described his ideas of illuminating Europe: "Light becomes a liberating sublime, driving out the false, oppressive sublime of darkness and obscurity through which kings terrorize the people."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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It was Richard Price who, in an 1789 pamphlet called Discourse on the Love of Our Country, described his ideas of illuminating Europe: "Light becomes a liberating sublime, driving out the false, oppressive sublime of darkness and obscurity through which kings terrorize the people."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
zeko_usa commented on the word Discourse
I just looked up a "discourse" word and no results showed up? I wonder why? Can it be that this word is not yet added?
March 23, 2012
Tyanna commented on the word Discourse
Did you mean discourse? ;-)
March 23, 2012