Last summer, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, launched Liz Duffy Adams's A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, set in 1702 and featuring older-if-not-wiser versions of Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis, two of the young Salem accusers.
He gave a lift to a roadside yokel who flipped off the stereo & launched a discourse on the interrelation between the pitch-fork and the digital computor.
A stray dandelion once launched a discourse on their unfair label as weeds, the potential diuretic effect of their leaves, their definite edibility (he popped it in his mouth, stem and all), the plant's name (the coarsely toothed leaves resembled lions' teeth, leading the French to call it dent de lion), and the paradoxical fecundity of these asexual plants.
I won't launch into a discourse on how everyone's path is unique and equally valid, or the arbitrariness of trying to meet some standard for "right" human experience, but I do want to consider the impulse, not 24 hours into my stay, to assign it a label, an impulse that inevitably if unintentionally colors everything after it.
We hope this article will help launch a serious discourse among researchers, policymakers, regulatory agencies, and research-funding organizations around the world and encourage those who have already begun to think along these lines.
She launched into a discourse on adjustable-rate mortgages, J. P. Morgan, and stop-and-frisk, before Strekal interjected.
When Anne Barnard, a Times correspondent, asked him about extrajudicial detentions of peaceful demonstrators, Assad launched into a discourse about the administration of justice.
Then he launches into a discourse on the four different types of ground beef the store offers.
Cornered by one young voter with questions about the future of federal spending, Rubio broke from script and launched into a discourse on the economics of Medicare costs and need for entitlement spending reforms.
He could give you a discourse.
