How to Use disquisition in a Sentence

disquisition

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  • Adam Smith's celebrated disquisition on the factors contributing to the wealth of nations.
  • There’s an amusing disquisition on ant life, which thanks to the quirks of scale (among other things) is nothing like our own.
    — Frank Rose, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • In Lucretius, the two are joined: his philosophical disquisition on atoms, pleasure, and the plague takes the form of a poem, a song to be sung.
    — Stephen Greenblatt, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Before the boy could continue his disquisition, Pops clocked him with a right hand.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • But his superb skill at singing tones and eloquent disquisition won out.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This is the sort of drama where even the thugs serve up disquisitions on Tiananmen Square and the historical uses of power along with their beat downs.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The prose is no longer a formal disquisition of the self but becomes a forceful assertion of control: a chef in her own kitchen, a woman who knows how to find the answers.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Much of the book’s power lies in Nathan’s bitter retrospective disquisitions on the Swede.
    — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
  • Yet upon hearing my disquisition on open borders, many of my peers look at me with deep concern.
    — WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Both the British allergy to hyperbolic disquisition and the American taste for getting right down to cases—not quite the same thing—were alien to him.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Then Bouza offers a mighty disquisition on poverty and ghettoization that should be inscribed on the walls of every station house in the country.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2020
  • The former is a beardo who frequently wraps his musical disquisitions in irony, but deep down is an earnest singer-songwriter thirsty to be heard.
    — Dan Deluca, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • Castor's moment in the national glare Tuesday, televised from the Senate chamber, was seen as an ambling and at times aimless hour-long disquisition in search of a point.
    — Marc Levy, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
  • At the close of a long disquisition on which ships need to be built when in order to meet current threats, prepare for future ones, and do it all within budgetary constraints, O’Brien brilliantly summed up the purpose of that complex task.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Those first 10 pages begin with a child’s fascinating disquisition on the state of Burundian noses.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • There followed an inane and rambling disquisition on how Russia installed Trump as president.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Here was a feminist disquisition of old-school proportions: a big fat analysis of how profit and patriarchy conspire to make women feel bad about ourselves, joined with a call to action.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 10 June 2021
  • The father-daughter relationship is often witty, a seduction that never ends, and sometimes exquisitely poignant, but both roles are burdened by a script that falls into disquisition on the larger subject of men and women.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • About halfway through the Tiffany Tumbles video, viewers get an extended disquisition about the unique contours of transgender sexuality.
    — Katherine Cross, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Seven chapters and an interlude are arranged thematically, from an account of Fridtjof Nansen’s 1895 farthest-north record in the Arctic to a speculative disquisition on the future of adventure.
    — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
  • That the translation, despite its numerous infirmities, was indeed of Vatsyayana’s 1,600-year-old disquisition was not doubted.
    — Manu S Pillai, Quartz India, 27 June 2019
  • My party-talk includes a long disquisition on Sir Alec Issigonis and the enduring awesomeness of the original Mini (1959), a car whose packaging (front-transverse engine, front drive) set the template for generations of cheap, fuel-efficient cars.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • But the interplay here too often feels self-conscious, as if the characters themselves have been transformed into Cyranoids for a playwright’s intellectual and political disquisitions.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Obama's bare arms were in keeping with contemporary fashion, but their particularly lean musculature also served as a silent disquisition on the subject of physical fitness, one of her early East Wing initiatives.
    — Robin Givhan | The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Dune is a space opera, an allegory for ecological disaster, a disquisition on power—and an unending source of inspiration for all manner of extraliterary pursuits.
    — The Editors, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This coincidence is fantastic because Casanova, Last Love is pointedly set in a lavishly romantic period where Montesquieu’s disquisition would have been popular among its aristocratic characters — at least as filmmakers like to imagine that class.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 July 2021
  • Pre-existing conditions, risk pools and premium costs — not the more conventional Republican disquisitions in favor of the free market, personal responsibility and smaller government — dominate the debate today.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 7 May 2017
  • Rather, Lelio and his co-writers have made a smart, subtle disquisition on the necessity of both skepticism and faith, with a particularly keen understanding of religion’s uses and abuses.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022

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