1.   Although now receded in national consciousness, these themes still echo through American political discourse.

2.   American political discourse is like a Furby.

3.   Contemporary American public discourse consists almost exclusively of complaints, often at near-hysteria pitch.

4.   Garment also displays a remarkable grasp of journalism, its mechanics and limitations, and the role of the press in American political discourse.

5.   However, that movement is in its turn part of the much broader paranoid attitude toward government created by the characteristic rhetoric of American political discourse.

6.   It must be banned from all American discourse on the subject of bigotry, not in the interests of political correctness but in the interests of good dialogue.

7.   Over the past year, a kind of linguistic pollution has crept into the American political discourse.

8.   Public antagonism toward government has been one of the principal themes of American political discourse for nearly two decades, growing in shrillness in the past year.

9.   The language of liberty, such as Dole used, has largely vanished from American political discourse.

10.   This sense of otherness is the single most pernicious force in American discourse.