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When Nat begins to preach, the movie shifts registers: its subject becomes, in significant part, a matter of discourse , of what Nat is saying — and of the look of that discourse.
The main subject of the contemporary French cinema — albeit a subject that underlies the action and rarely comes to the fore — is infrastructure, and the infrastructure of modern French life is as much a matter of discourse as it is a matter of matter.
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"It's another piece of evidence about the impact of the religious right," Mr. Silk said, "and of a kind of return of an older, almost 19th-century style of public discourse in which religion is much more a matter of common discourse".
"The thing that I found," he said, "is that something that is of only the most esoteric interest here -- forgiving third-world debt -- is a matter of everyday discourse in Europe.
A21 Lieberman Elaborates on Faith Senator Joseph I. Lieberman sought to explain his call for a greater role for religion in public life by saying he meant it as a matter of public discourse , not policy, adding he does not consider those who are not religious to be amoral or unfit for office.
Explaining his call for a greater role for religion in public life, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman says he meant it as a matter of public discourse , not public policy, adding that he does not consider those who are not religious to be amoral or unfit for public office.
If we're more sensitive than ever, as a society, to sexual abuse of all sorts, it's precisely because the subject of sex is a matter of public discourse and representations of all sorts, high and low; if our tolerance for violence is lower than ever, it's because the horror of it, even when it arouses laughter (see "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), is presented more overtly than ever.
Because Magic Johnson's sexual prowess has been a matter of public discourse and conversation for over 20 years.
Despite the politicized dramatization of the Plains Aborigines, their "rediscovery" as a matter of public discourse has had a lasting effect on the increased socio-political reconceptualization of Taiwan emerging from the a Han Chinese dominant perspective into a wider acceptance of Taiwan as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic community.
It is thus a matter of how dominating discourses in society impact discursive practices in terms of facilitating or restraining action.
The war is an important event in Norse mythology, and the implications for the potential historicity surrounding accounts of the war are a matter of scholarly debate and discourse.
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The phrase "a matter of discourse" functions as a noun phrase, specifically as a predicative nominative or a complement. It identifies the subject under discussion, framing it as something significant and worthy of considered conversation, according to Ludwig.
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