"Until now what I have seen and heard is that all presidents have beautiful discourses, but where I come from it just stays on paper and in discourses and not in application.
The 'sophistic' rhetoric he grants technical status has method enough to qualify it as such, "but not much of it, just as poetics does not either" (Rhet. 2b, PHerc. 1672 xxii.29 39 Longo): since there is one naturally beautiful kind of discourse, one should ignore the kind of discourse composed according to arbitrary themata (Rhet. 4, PHerc. 1007/1673 vii.6 14, p. I 151 Sudhaus).
But it is one of the beautiful words of modern political discourse: dangerous, no doubt; tricky, of course -- but less so, in the end, than the other two words of the motto of republican France, one that operates as a check on the mortal danger that, in its absence, the first two words would pose.
Most of all, members will debate and discourse, form creative alliances, reach beautiful compromises.
There is a discourse that black people engender: that black is beautiful.
"I repeat that beautiful plea for plurality, tolerance and the importance of rational discourse in the hope that Tal Al-Mallouhi will soon be freed.
"The Marriage Plot" proposes its answer in the scene where Madeleine discovers Roland Barthes's "Lover's Discourse": "It wasn't only that this writing seemed beautiful...
One of the most beautiful passages in a book that abounds in them is the near-Rilkean discourse of Master Osman, the head miniaturist and a stubbornly mystical traditionalist.
"The idea was to create beautiful images of pubic hair, a subject matter that seems to be disappearing from popular discourse," Minter explained to The Observer.
Previously, the beautiful girls I had seen celebrated in films were either fluent in the language of social discourse, or adorably awkward in a trying-to-look-elegant-then-falling-down-the-stairs kind of way.
