After such a grubby spectacle of self-adoring British womanhood, it was a relief to get back to the much more elevated discourse of American women.
By getting hooked into the myriad tiny twists which result in each character's eventual action, the listener could be helped to begin that slow journey back to the kind of democratic discourse which will prove essential when Syria is rebuilt.
BERLIN — As Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to depart for her meeting in Washington with President Obama, the deaths of three German soldiers in Afghanistan thrust Berlin's role in the escalating conflict onto front pages nationwide and back to the forefront of political discourse here.
It would not be hyperbole to declare that Barack Obama's Cairo speech brought our political discourse back to the 21st century.
The mid-August attack by Palestinian militants that killed eight Israelis near the southern city of Eilat, close to the Egyptian border, followed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza, proved to be a major interruption, abruptly changing the public discourse back to the more familiar mode of Israeli security in hostile surroundings.
It has been largely stripped of its roots, which predominantly point back to the satipatthana sutta, a Buddhist discourse that outlines the physical and mental practice of mindfulness meditation.
I propose that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and all Democrats promise and wage a four-year legacy battle to create full pay equity for all women and to bring the words "full employment" back to the center of our national discourse, national mission and national life.
Part of the beauty of the movement was the rational, open discourse that harkened back to the days of the wobegon public sphere, but even within the sphere, there were too many conflicts of interest.
Famous for his frenetic travel schedule and frequent lateness, Mr. Gergiev was relaxed and expansive, never quite answering questions directly but veering into arabesques of discourse before being brought back to the point.
That third variable accounts for the boost from voters Mr Abramowitz says incumbents get by virtue of already being in office.For his 2012 forecast, however, Mr Abramowitz tweaked his model by including a fourth variable, which he labels "polarization", that is designed to account for the increasing polarisation of political discourse in America dating back to the 1996 election.
