1.   And in conversation after conversation, people in the crowd offered not a staccato of sound bites and cliches, but rambling discourses about the issues.

2.   Ask Linklater about the evolution of his movie and you get a similar rambling discourse.

3.   Steinbrenner addressed the subject this week during a rambling discourse with reporters while watching Hideki Irabu make his American debut in a Florida State League game.

4.   The letter, postmarked Omaha, Neb., is a rambling discourse on societal inequalities.

5.   Yes, in a rambling discourse that was supposed to be making the point that the United States is well on the way to racial harmony.