1.   A dictionary of slang can only take the descriptive view, and yet it, too, must deal with normative issues, chiefly the etiquette of civil discourse.

2.   Civil discourse seems rare because it is.

3.   Civil political discourse has also suffered.

4.   Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate, also has urged the NRA to engage in more civil discourse.

5.   In a climate of calculated hate for The Other, how can we expect to have the civil discourse that is the mechanism of Madisonian democracy?

6.   In an especially delicate democratic moment, not only are they failing to provide forums for civil discourse and open discussion of the complicated issues.

7.   In part, this is because Sullivan presents a model of civil discourse.

8.   In these days of debased civil discourse, blasphemy is in the eye of the beholder.

9.   Is there no room in the free-for-all communications revolution for credible information and civil discourse?

10.   Such straight-bashing neither contributes to civil discourse nor persuades us we are morally obtuse.