81.   Those words would be taken as polite conversation in most political discourse, but diplomats accustomed to soft words found them at the outer edge of diplomatese.

82.   Unlike many European countries, the United States allows a free market in short, often superficial, political commercials, which have unquestionably coarsened our political discourse.

83.   Well beyond Gore, the smaller-is-better movement threatens to infiltrate American political discourse.

84.   We are at this very moment, all over the United States, awash in political advertising, those floods of insincerity that pass for political discourse in America.

85.   Whatever else it has done, the new Republican Congressional leadership has coarsened American political discourse to a remarkable degree in a very short time.

86.   We have been having quite a nightmare with this subject, waking us from our slumber that has marked too much of this political discourse this campaign year.

87.   Well, imagine a whole state where they define the political discourse.

88.   When one contemplates the political discourse over the next few years, disunion is a slam dunk.

89.   Who would have thought that celluloid subjects and fictional characters would be centerstage in the political discourse during the age of downsizing?

90.   Yet there seems no question that the landscape here has changed, in ways that will affect both governance and political discourse.