1.   Candidates should engage in serious political discourse.

2.   This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse, the protesters complain.

3.   As that indicates, serious cinematic discourse was not high on the agenda for the black-tie gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

4.   A section about the Veneto offers a serious discourse on the popularity of horse meat in Verona.

5.   Most of the most serious intellectual discourse for some years has not come out of the academy.

6.   Or a bewildered teacher hides behind a mistaken interpretation of the Constitution to justify excluding not only classroom worship but serious discourse on religious topics.

7.   Such dissonance, of course, can result in financial fisticuffs, so serious discourse is needed.

8.   That pipe dream of the dreamy-eyed counterculture practically vanished from serious discourse -- it was just too costly.

9.   What we need on serious subjects like this is serious discourse.