Sentence examples for discourse down from inspiring English sources

"Many in our congregation are resonating with Obama's talk of raising the discourse and that sort of idealism, and Jeremiah Wright's comments have pulled the level of discourse down," Mr. Wagoner said.

Republicans, in Wisconsin and elsewhere, are trying to shut that kind of discourse down.

Brunetto's groundbreaking endorsement of Aristotle and Cicero as real-world political champions would animate humanistic discourse down to the time of Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), who listed these two thinkers as sources of the Declaration of Independence.

In addition, Plato tended to talk of learning using the passive language of seeing, which has shaped our discourse down to the present.

It couldn't have come at better time – a time when our sense of the American story has faltered, our political discourse broken down, a time when clarity and empathy are much needed.

But what Skinner has done is turn a one-way sermon into a discourse, breaking down barriers between fan and band with a simplicity that an arty hardcore group such as Lightning Bolt (who perform on the floor, rather than the stage, because, like, we're all the same) might envy.

Often, it can shut down discourse and fuel animosity.

The hair-raising comments sections of the broadcast news sites, including Fox and CNN, are exactly the kind of spaces that publishers will have to factor into their plans to dial down discourse.

Çavdar stresses that one of the main achievements of the protest movement was to shatter the narrow identities imposed by state discourse: "Gezi brought down the walls between conservative Muslims and secularists, nationalist Turks and Kurds, Alevis and Sunnis, men and women.

The blaming and judging is adding heat under the melting pot, while the calls for civil discourse are pushing down on the lid.

As van Eemeren (2005: xii) argues: manipulation in discourse boils down to intentionally deceiving one's addressees by persuading them of something that is foremost in one's own interest through the covert use of communicative devices that are not in agreement with generally acknowledged critical standards of reasonableness.