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I don't mean that as a discursion of organized religion, but you need to be set in your ways not to be accepting of something different.
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His inaugural address did not help, with its unscripted, rambling discursion about the blizzard that had, he explained, scared away what would have been record crowds and obliged organisers to move the ceremony indoors.
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An account of the last days of James Whale, director of the 1931 adaptation of "Frankenstein," the film begins as a tame biopic but soon mutates into a very peculiar discursion about the seductions and strangeness of flesh.
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The second soliloquy takes place in a hotel in Chicago, Schmaltz having just taken a train down from Zenith, Winnemac, the night before. Over a game of cards, Schmaltz once again begins a singular and long-winded discursion.
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Peter Opie was born in Cairo, in the war-time British Protectorate or Sultanate of Egypt, and educated at Eton College. He was a specialist in children's literature, and the customs of schoolchildren. He was joint winner of the £1,000 Chosen Books competition, with his autobiographical discursion The Case of Being a Young Man (published in paperback, 1946).Peter Opie, The Case of Being a Young Man, Chosen Books, 1946.
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Her discursion of meditative inquiry is informed largely by her own vision, but also by the talks and writings of J. Krishnamurti. Up to 16 retreats are held a year, giving a blend of ritual-less zen and Neo-Advaita silent retreats, and David Bohm style dialogues/group meetings. Packer has been described as "...a Zen teacher minus the 'Zen' and minus the 'teacher,'" emphasizing the importance of meditative inquiry without practicing Buddhism. Though stripped of rituals, Packer still found the practice of zazen to be useful.
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Hume wrote several appendices and discursions, which may be classed in their apparent order of composition, covering: 1) the Shakespearean period; 2) the period up until the restoration; 3) the period ending with the Revolution; 4) the period of the Tudors; 5) the Anglo-Saxon period; 6) the period up until the signing and gradual implementation of Magna Carta; 7) the era of Edward III; and 8) the period ending with the overthrow of Richard Plantagenet. This last discursion at the end of vol 2 is a summary of some of Hume's most developed thoughts (chapter XXII). An anti-Jacobite shibboleth that Hume wanted to refute held that absolute monarchy was an innovation brought to England by James I. When James was writing his Basilicon Doron expounding the divine right of kings, he was king of Scotland alone. He wanted to bring the authoritarian English model of kingship to his unruly northern kingdom.
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