Sentence examples for Earlier dialogue from inspiring English sources
In one scene, never filmed, Darcy wanders by himself, Romeo-like at night, repeating earlier dialogue interspersed with lines from Byron, as he pines for Elizabeth.
(In the play, the O'Neills are on extremely bad terms. Earlier dialogue concerns his will and how much she looks forward to outliving him).
By using a visitor from Elea, Plato invites his audience to recall Parmenides' own positions and performance in that earlier dialogue.
However, if someone momentarily and uncharacteristically reacts in the manner Finn did -- and it's not like he overtly called Kurt a fag, though the reference was unfortunate -- after warning him in earlier dialogue that the room was unacceptable, and Kurt, in his "ignorance," essentially baits him, then Kurt's actions get swept under the rug.
A work may have many defects yet be forgiven if the author comes through as a creature of sweetness and light, just as Plato's literary creation, the Socrates of the earlier dialogues, does.
It is commonly regarded as the culminating achievement of Plato as a philosopher and writer, brilliantly poised between the questioning and inconclusive earlier dialogues and the less compelling cosmological speculations and doubts of the later ones.
Socrates here puts forth a much more definite conception of the good than in earlier dialogues.
Indeed, there is no mention of separate parts of the soul in any of the earlier dialogues; there irrational desires are attributed to the influence of the body.
And if we do read it in this way, does that show that Plato has changed his mind about some of the ideas about forms he inserted into earlier dialogues?
At least, that's what I think was going on: the early dialogue seemed to me so elliptically written and so garbled as to be incomprehensible.
Until now, South Korea has categorically rejected any early dialogue with the North, believing that doing so amid a torrent of North Korean threats to attack the South would amount to capitulation and would only embolden the North's brinkmanship.
