Example sentences for: disquisition

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  • That includes The Flounder , published in the United States in 1978, an epic disquisition on the perfidy of women (Grass' leftism does not extend to feminism) that is narrated by a fish and continues through centuries, with asides on matters of sexual and culinary history.

  • ("I have always been mystified by international finance since I took a course in it at the University of Chicago 62 years ago," he wrote in a Slate "" exchange a year ago--almost, but not quite, embarrassing me out of a disquisition on the International Monetary Fund and the sad state of the Russian and Japanese economies.)

  • Several times a day I still think of Parkes' disquisition on the now-obsolete punctuation mark known as a percontativus , a question mark flopped backward and used to indicate a question that is purely rhetorical.

  • Especially disconcerting was said to be his lengthy disquisition on numerology.

  • As for identities, I suppose I could continue on the subject with a lengthy disquisition on the construction of national identities in early modern Europe, drawn from my new book.


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