The most fruitful twist in "Late Marriage" is that at its core lies not a snippy domestic farce but a prolonged, dirty, and wholly credible sex scene, which starts and stops and starts again, and in which argument and arousal are entwined like limbs.
A particular proposal is argued for in which argument structure is a syntactic level of representation whose information and formal design is unique to this level and which is related to other levels by correspondence principles.
Research into the effectiveness of discourse can determine the order in which arguments should be presented.
But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain.
The Cleveland case, in which arguments were heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week, is expected to be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
On the other side of the coin, a community in which arguments are settled by gunshots is unlikely to experience economic growth and opportunity.
If the choice is between a Palestinian legal intifada, in which arguments are hashed out in court, and an actual intifada, in which blood flows in the streets, the global community should encourage the former.
With "Art," a comedy in which arguments over an all-white painting expose the hidden tensions among three longtime male friends, Ms. Reza had to wait through 18 months of full houses in Paris to awaken interest abroad.
We are familiar by now with an almost ritualistic pattern that accompanies certain kinds of court cases, in which arguments over guilt and innocence are accompanied by charged confrontations about the powers of the state.
Here's where a peculiarity of Creole studies, which has rumbled in the background of the book, comes to the fore: evaluating any claim means whacking through a jungle of detail in which arguments about, say, verbs in some Dutch Creole depend on data about population crashes in Suriname in the late 17th century.
Retrospectively, the impulse isn't particularly hard to fathom: the child of divorced parents myself, when it came to fiction, I was in the market for stability; the families I fell for were those in which arguments were rare, parents reliable and an unshowy bedrock of love a given.
