Sentence examples for discourse meant from inspiring English sources

In the time of Clay, Webster and Calhoun, political discourse meant political oratory.

When she says that "the new tax schedule Mellon's men drew up was a beauty to behold," those are her wide-eyed words, not some bit of indirect discourse meant to echo Coolidge.

Skittish at the best of times, he set off at once on a rambling and wholly libellous discourse meant to "out" a score of his fellow rock stars as gay.

An initial reaction might be, "Well, of course - that's what civil discourse means.

In this land of constant chatter, the one remaining bastion of silence is the Church, where discourse is meant to be of a spiritual nature, and never more so than during the current Holy Year when tens of millions of pilgrims are expected to visit.

This recovery of a republican discourse was meant to counterbalance the canonical view, most clearly and forcefully expressed in Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America (1955), of an American consensus of Lockean derivation, centered on the defense of property rights and animated by liberal individualism.

Recent critical leadership literature argues that the rise of 'leaderism' in healthcare discourse has meant that many things that were more traditionally aligned to, for example, 'interprofessional relationships' or 'clinical decision-making' are now being branded as 'leadership'leadership

By "fictional discourse" we mean here and in what follows discourse about fictitious objects.

To the New Critics, poetry was a special kind of discourse, a means of communicating feeling and thought that could not be expressed in any other kind of language.

Limited discourse on illness meant that the complexity of living with OA and its consequences was underestimated.

The limited discourse on illness meant that the complexity of living with OA and its consequences was underestimated.