It's a sharp, lively discourse, and audience members searching for engaging debate will be pleased.
La Surprise de l'amour, a title Marivaux used twice (1722, 1727), becomes a regular motif, the interest of each play resting in the precise and delicate changes of attitude and circumstance rung by the dramatist and the sharp, witty discourse in which his characters' exchanges are couched.
Is it time to pull the plug on hopes of respectful, outstanding and sharp political discourse and reporting?
It has been over three decades since Mario Cuomo's inspiring political rhetoric at the 1984 Democratic Convention: a sharp, but still respectful discourse with "Mr. President" Ronald Reagan.
During the lead-up to the election I became troubled by what appeared to be a causal relationship between the anti-Muslim rhetoric in our political discourse and a sharp rise in acts of anti-Muslim bias.
Like so much of online discourse, from comments to Twitter and Facebook, sharp polarities cracked the surface quickly, illuminating our cultural clash on such things as decorum, manners, discretion, judgment, class, wit, wisdom, irreverence, satire, and so on.
Josten accused Obama of helping make business-bashing "acceptable in political discourse," as demonstrated in the presidential campaign, with his own sharp rhetoric.
"A ways", "gussied up", "sprog", "sharp cookie", "gobsmacked", "pinkie" – these words were just not at home in the discourse they were in.
Ezra's refusal to play — his continued protests against being questioned in a way that people aren't questioned in life outside the courtroom — brought into sharp relief the artificial and, you might even say, inhuman character of courtroom discourse.
The solicitude for rape victims in the context of armed self-defense stands in sharp contrast to the way rape generally tends to figure in right-wing discourse.
