For my part, I endured a long disquisition on the Tractarians from a young and opinionated university liberal.

One can imagine an O.L.C. memo with a long disquisition on the difference between "exclusion" and "actual detention."

Bill Clinton, in contrast, would pad back for such long disquisitions that exhausted reporters traveling home from foreign trips wanted to shoo him away.

The claustrophobic Viennese interiors and the long disquisitions on medical and scientific questions sometimes make you think you're listening to a lecture rather than watching a movie.

And now," Sir Percy Blakeney concluded with a happy sigh, "please forgive me for this long disquisition.

Or more to the point, subject him to long disquisitions on savings and capital accumulation, the gains of trade and the role of the "invisible hand" in markets.

He had to listen to a long disquisition on the psychological aspect of the case.

He was growing restless anyway, and Beenay's long disquisition on abstract matters was making him even edgier.

When Barry goes to medical school at the University of Edinburgh, for instance, we are treated to a long disquisition on the university and the medical practices of the period.

Does this mean we're going to be mired in long disquisitions on deconstruction, seminars in semiotics on our way to the denouement?