(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(4) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(5) Derived patterns of discourse between female adults and preschool children confirmed expectations that most discourse is based upon three fundamental speech act pairings: question--answer, statement--reply, and directive--acknowledgement.
(6) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.
(7) He might begin with a call for an end to all foreign wars, segue to demand the legalisation of drugs, throw in a defence of WikiLeaks and end with a detailed economic discourse on why the Federal Reserve must be abolished and replaced by the gold standard.
(8) Three-quarters of the sample was impaired on at least one of four discourse tests (knowing the alternate meanings of ambiguous words in context; getting the point of figurative or metaphoric expressions; bridging the inferential gaps between events in stereotyped social situations; and producing speech acts that express the apparent intentions of others).
(9) I support the boycott discourse, but in order to develop this discourse, we need highly developed political consciousness.
(10) Other significant differences in discourse occurred between the two groups, but these varied from task to task.
(11) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(12) I quoted Cooke because, as he himself suggests, what he wrote is a pure distillation of a widely held view in US political discourse.
(13) That’s the danger of replacing the political discourse with a purely moralistic approach: politics allow for nuances and mistakes; morality doesn’t.
(14) Discourse passages and consonant nonsense syllables, presented in quiet and in noise, were used as the test conditions.
(15) And the discourse of those that are committing these crimes – they are not hiding these crimes, they are saying it very openly, very publicly, very systematically … and it’s not just rhetoric – the action they take is to implement the rhetoric.
(16) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(17) Manic patients produced thought disorders that revealed both prominent combinatory thinking and intrusions of irrelevant ideas into the stream of discourse, usually with flippancy and humor.
(18) There are rationalisations but very little actual discourse on the subject of banning assault weapons.
(19) Each lesson focuses on a different viseme which is practiced using the 'discourse tracking' method.
(20) Preliminary data from our single-case studies suggest discourse patterns similar to those reported for adults with frontal lobe injuries.
Sutra
Definition:
(n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
(n.) A collection of such aphorisms.
(n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(2) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(3) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(4) He evidently knows little of Indian culture; hasn't he read the Kama Sutra or seen the sculptures at the Ellora and Ajanta caves?
(5) From a Kshara Sutra thread which is used in the therapy of fistula in the Ayurvedic medicinal system, euphol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-benzoylingol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-tigloylingol, curcumin, p-coumaroylferuloylmethane and di-p-courmaroylmethane were isolated and characterized.
(6) Ben & Jerry's has not been averse to cheeky product names itself, marketing flavours such as Karamel Sutra and Schweddy Balls, as well as putting out ice-cream in containers carrying the tagline "Size Matters".
(7) The old Indian literature describes a technique known as Sutra-Neti.
(8) Has collaborated with Akram Khan, and with Antony Gormley and the Chinese Shaolin monks on Sutra, at Sadler's Wells, London EC1 (0844 412 4300), until Saturday.
(9) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(10) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(11) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(12) On top of that, if the user's home is wired up correctly, the app can control other the lights and music, as well as present a virtual Kama Sutra to anyone who needs inspiration.
(13) As Donna returned to sing Love To Love You, the couples assumed a variety of Kama Sutra positions.
(14) In 2010 he's back at Sadler's Wells with Sutra (13–17, 22–26 March) and Babel (18–19 May).
(15) For the Buddhist community acts of self-mutilation by burning reflect a tradition for which the direct precedent is set in the ancient scriptures of the Lotus Sutra.
(16) The exception is Sutra, his masterly 2008 work with a group of Shaolin monks: here, Cherkaoui sets the monks as a group, with himself as the outsider.
(17) Eunuchs are celebrated in sacred Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata and the Kama Sutra.
(18) There has been collateral damage, though: last year, Apple initially turned down Eucalyptus, an app written by the British developer Jamie Montgomerie, because it provided access to out-of-copyright books via the net – including the Kama Sutra.
(19) It is a theatrically cluttered space full of her varied knickknacks, including cushions embroidered with images of her beloved dogs , a DVD of a BBC docudrama on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and, quizzically, a book titled The Married Kama Sutra.
(20) What resulted is a truly random assemblage: an album of Beatles photographs, an anti-homosexuality screed called Gay is Not Good, multiple English-language Kama Sutras, popular 1970s memoir The Happy Hooker, a set of bawdy limericks, a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar.