But the 15 films on this year's feature documentary shortlist showcase an uncommonly broad range of approaches, from the activist to the elliptical, a reminder that, even as the country's political discourse grows more coarse and hyperbolic, there are ways to talk about the things that matter most without resorting to a shout.
A new approach to education and to intellectual discourse grew out of the Darwinian debate.
He believes that "Last Days" and "Father of Lies" are "much tougher for Mormons to read because they can sense (sometimes without being fully conscious of it) how the discourse they grew up with is being turned in on itself, made to do something that is, for lack of a better word, profoundly heretical".
That the discourse only amplifies one's growing disgust at an immodest assemblage that makes Coward's crew seem positively restrained causes one to ponder just what kind of home the baby and his siblings-to-be inhabit.
This could be an irritating habit, and at times it proves so, but for the most part it enlivens the discourse and keeps it from growing too lofty or disembodied.
Moreover, it aims to shed some light on the growing discourse of whether and to what extent pre-task and online planning influence the product of a writing task.
Let us not allow base hatred and the growing discourse of division to continue to take its human toll upon us.
The growing discourse and promotion of peace as a way of life takes shapes in the schools (through mandated peace curriculum), in the police and armed forces (who are being trained with peace education), and in businesses that are being pushed to think of development as promoting stability and the basic conditions to prevent violence.
But importantly the growing discourse about protecting children and expressed motivation by parents and other carers to protect children is encouraging.
I knew that I was terribly incomplete as a harpsichordist, and since coming to Europe from America I had grown frustrated that the discourse around my instrument was mostly centered on what is called the "authenticity wars".
