All the more reason to hail these adventurers into the insufficiently explored territory of civilized discourse.

If everybody would just sit down and have a civilized discourse, benefits to the whole system can be maximized while energy spent is minimized.

But the creaky mechanism of civilized discourse had started up again, and Herbert alone was responsible for that.

Men like guns; women like nuclear disarmament, civilized discourse and Medicare.

Yet there's plenty of authority in state universities governed by the Constitution, and private schools that preach constitutional values, to insist on civilized discourse.

Such fashionable neurologizing of bad behavior is destructive of civilized discourse and human relations.

In such circumstances, bureaucracy is a medium of civilized discourse; at least he isn't throwing me out.

President Bush promised to bring civilized discourse to Washington.

Of far greater significance, though, is his contribution to civilized discourse between those entrapped by political enmity.

Nobody ever has time to talk: it's always Crisis this and Emergency that, with everyone far too busy for civilized discourse.