But the best piano recitals, in keeping with the word "recital," should have a quasi-literary dimension, where a performer offers a discourse on music by the choice of works, something Mr. Torquati did exceptionally well in his fascinating program.
Correlations of journal quality assessments might be interpreted as demonstrating how the traditional German journals, on the one hand, and the US mainstream journals, on the other hand, are each perceived to offer a discourse of a rather uniform type of quality, while EAR, AOS and CPA are too diverse to fall into one of these two discourses.
Stark writes that the game is a thesis on religion and the final battle with Yu Yevon offers a discourse on how to defeat it, by "let[ting] it die a slow death, murder it with sheer force, or utilize one's knowledge of the (game) world to give it no power to stand on".
It also showcased the president in his professorial role, as he offered a short discourse about the history of American political fighting, complete with references to how his predecessors got roughed up.
Presumably in the same manner he invited Alf Inge Haaland for a frank exchange of views on the matter of leg injuries, or offered a civilised discourse to Gareth Southgate on how many pounds of pressure per square inch a male nipple can withstand.
But it also offers a sweeping discourse on history and art, science and religion, man and God, good and evil.
In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it.
For the pro-affinage connoisseur, the servers are equipped to offer a friendly discourse, say, on the "chef's choice" cheeses topping the burgers, such as Cornelia, "a really good melting cheese, like a funky Monterey Jack, with a washed rind from upstate".
Lloyd's meticulous scholarship and acute understanding of Baudelaire, and especially of Baudelaire in English translation, make the complete range of his works (poetry, criticism, journals, correspondence) accessible to the Anglophone reader". "Drawing on her own translations as well as those of other poets, Lloyd offers a lively discourse on the possibilities and limitations of translation.
