Otherwise, during a freewheeling discussion of the movie and the broader topics it raised, they agreed on little else.

But the government has had a much tougher time figuring out how to effectively regulate the freewheeling discussions that occur regularly in Internet chat rooms.

Mr. Wells next led a freewheeling discussion about the availability and desirability of several actors familiar to television audiences.

This leads a group of patrons into a freewheeling discussion on the causes of the decline of a well-rounded liberal arts education.

"It was a freewheeling discussion on the problems of the state of the union," he said.

The letter complained that the unrelenting criticism of Stalin and the freewheeling discussion were causing disorientation and nihilism among young people.

He also made clear that he felt emboldened by the freewheeling discussions that the four-day party conference had spawned.

In workshops and meeting rooms, at schools and mosques in the city, the freewheeling discussion of theology, history and politics lives on.

On the menu will be a "freewheeling discussion," mostly about the budget problems, Mrs. Byrne said.

While others dove right into the subsequent freewheeling discussion, she just sat there, resigned to a pawn's mute, helpless role.