You feel yourself in the presence of a great woman, a woman of wit and cultivated discourse, passionately devoted to the Liberal principles she inherited from her father, H.H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916, and utterly loyal to her family and friends.
Australia's tough national security posturing in the past 14 years has cultivated a discourse and climate of fear and overreaction.
Such a discourse cultivates a narrow conception of justice that ignores the societal reverberations and total human costs of policies like the death penalty and mass incarceration.
The rise of political violence in our country only underscores the desperate importance, at this moment, of cultivating citizens who face political conflict through open discourse rather than repression or aggression.
An ongoing challenge facing LTE involves cultivating candidates' disciplinary knowledge and facilitating their socialization into professional discourses, yet little research has examined the role of genre awareness in language teacher development.
To contribute, though, requires resources (cognitive and linguistic ones included), cultivated in a public discourse that makes value and meaning, held among common people, from which intellectuals emerge and draw.
An ethics of eros draws from traditions of "othermothering" (Collins 1990), emancipatory discourses of libidinal drives and generative powers (Lorde 2007; Rawlinson 2015), and traditions of cultivating and repairing the social bond (Willett 1995 and 2014).
Preachers and theologians, as well as secular moralists, most often found themselves discoursing on these subjects in order to demonstrate the importance of governing the passions and cultivating the affections.
However, over the past few decades, with the growth of humanitarian and development sectors (and associated neo-colonial discourse), a new definition has been cultivated, and it makes me wince.
In its narrative gaps, its false depths leading nowhere in particular, its bogus grief over stakeless destruction and faked death, "The Dark Knight" echoes a civil discourse strained to helplessness by panic, overreaction and cultivated grievance.
Close relations with Syria cultivated by JDP governments stood as the best example of the leitmotif of the party's discourse on the Middle East; indeed propaganda material prepared for the 2011 elections showed Erdoğan and Assad arm in arm on the front page.
