1.   Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse.

2.   It is a way of making connections within a public discourse.

3.   Rarely has a term of public discourse gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

4.   The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.

5.   This surely must count as significant participation in public discourse.

6.   Within a couple of years, the public discourse changed.

7.   American culture is awash in sexual messages and innuendo, yet public discourse on human sexuality is mostly mumbles or giggles.

8.   And I think the public discourse is better when the argument is about numbers.

9.   And more than ever, the American audience has an appetite for crude and lewd public discourse.

10.   And she is tempted at times to despair of politics in an age of cynicism and the poisoning of public discourse.