The logic of this view was simple: Whatever else the First Amendment was intended to do, it surely was not intended to encourage false statements of fact, which can hardly be said to further the values of sound public discourse.
With a late-afternoon start for the men's final on Sunday, Carillo and McEnroe sounded fresher, discoursing on Sampras's difficulties returning a wide forehand; the mechanics of Sampras's serve; Agassi's sluggishness; how Sampras was stepping into his backhand; and how Agassi had to slow his pace and use his legs better to get more on his second serve.
Other parts of Trump's discourse sound eerily familiar to Mexicans, such as his pledge to lock up his opponent.
In this house divided, American political discourse sounds more like a domestic disturbance than a thoughtful debate.
The verbal production of schizophrenics and other psychotic individuals might sound like language without discourse, a useful formulation, but for the novelist it's not enough.
In a time when the sound bite reigns as discourse, dances have become "short, fast and athletic," with performing, dance writing and even training following suit.
As Rachel Malik wrote in an excellent blog post, "The 'trouble' with words like assault or harassment is that they don't seem to belong in everyday discourse, they sound technical, perhaps a little alien.
Inadequately educated citizens see the world in black and white, settle for sound bites rather than discourse, fail to distinguish information from disinformation, and succumb to manipulation by clever attack ads and faux news.
Some of this discourse might sound nativist and nationalist, but that part might well be a response to the entrenched disdain in the Indian elite consensus for things spiritual or Indian, rather than any deep "yogic" antipathy for non yogic lifestyles.
But Paul's discourse often sounds a note of excited reticence; he is very good at taking the already resonant Old Testament words such as "satisfy" and "acceptable" and pulling from them a kind of controlled, ironic fervor.
