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  • noun Plural form of disquisition.

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Examples

  • I may recall the disquisitions on the moral teaching of Liguori.

    The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

  • When the bloody history of 20th-century communism intrudes upon Mr. Hobsbawm's disquisitions, it's quickly dismissed.

    How a True Believer Keeps the Faith Michael Moynihan 2011

  • Five years ago, when YouTube started out, it was assumed to be where you went to look at cats that looked like Hitler, or people falling off skateboards, but TED Talks, with its short disquisitions on everything from neuroscience to creativity, has just celebrated 500m views on the site.

    TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever 2011

  • If some of the set-pieces are less successful than others – the novel's central dinner party descends from burlesque into caricature, as the guests became increasingly loathsome – there are some wonderful disquisitions on our cultural idiosyncrasies.

    There but for the, by Ali Smith – review 2011

  • Were these disquisitions continually acquire after 9 courses, 7 wines as good as a tiny brandy?

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • Although his impressively omniscient disquisitions are laced with wry wit, it's clear that he abhors laziness.

    Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review David Benedict 2010

  • And yet, in all her disquisitions on the subject, has she ever called for the feds, prior to this point in time, to do as suggested above.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Matt Welch on the Immigration Law 2010

  • The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs, Summer World never stops observing the beautifully complex interactions of animals and plants with nature, giving extraordinary depth to the relationships between habitat and the warming of the earth.

    Summer World by Bernd Heinrich: Book summary 2010

  • Were these disquisitions continually acquire after 9 courses, 7 wines as good as a tiny brandy?

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

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