How to Use disquisition in a Sentence

disquisition

noun
  • Adam Smith's celebrated disquisition on the factors contributing to the wealth of nations.
  • But his superb skill at singing tones and eloquent disquisition won out.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Yet upon hearing my disquisition on open borders, many of my peers look at me with deep concern.
    — WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • There’s an amusing disquisition on ant life, which thanks to the quirks of scale (among other things) is nothing like our own.
    — Frank Rose, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Before the boy could continue his disquisition, Pops clocked him with a right hand.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Much of Woodhouse’s disquisitions on health are pitched at the younger generation.
    — Chris Cohen, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In the end, McConnell’s disquisition falls short in making the case for primacy.
    — Reid Smith, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The former is a beardo who frequently wraps his musical disquisitions in irony, but deep down is an earnest singer-songwriter thirsty to be heard.
    — Dan Deluca, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • Much of the book’s power lies in Nathan’s bitter retrospective disquisitions on the Swede.
    — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
  • Then Bouza offers a mighty disquisition on poverty and ghettoization that should be inscribed on the walls of every station house in the country.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2020
  • There was little time to draw breath between art classes, violin making, and disquisitions on John Ruskin.
    — Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Many readers certainly do struggle with the epic’s final part, which has its share of dense theological disquisitions.
    — Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
  • This is the sort of drama where even the thugs serve up disquisitions on Tiananmen Square and the historical uses of power along with their beat downs.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • After half an hour of folksy disquisition, Petro finally got around to describing the conversation.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But, like most legal work, his cases typically turned not on disquisitions about the vision of the Founders but on narrow, technical details.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Those first 10 pages begin with a child’s fascinating disquisition on the state of Burundian noses.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • Both the British allergy to hyperbolic disquisition and the American taste for getting right down to cases—not quite the same thing—were alien to him.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Castor's moment in the national glare Tuesday, televised from the Senate chamber, was seen as an ambling and at times aimless hour-long disquisition in search of a point.
    — Marc Levy, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
  • About halfway through the Tiffany Tumbles video, viewers get an extended disquisition about the unique contours of transgender sexuality.
    — Katherine Cross, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The father-daughter relationship is often witty, a seduction that never ends, and sometimes exquisitely poignant, but both roles are burdened by a script that falls into disquisition on the larger subject of men and women.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • And in the same way that ageism against women was really a disquisition on femininity, the broad obsession with President Biden’s age speaks to our vision of masculinity.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At the close of a long disquisition on which ships need to be built when in order to meet current threats, prepare for future ones, and do it all within budgetary constraints, O’Brien brilliantly summed up the purpose of that complex task.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Dune is a space opera, an allegory for ecological disaster, a disquisition on power—and an unending source of inspiration for all manner of extraliterary pursuits.
    — The Editors, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
  • As the childhood friendship between two future game-makers blooms into a rich creative collaboration and, later, alienation, the book becomes a dazzling disquisition on art, ambition and the endurance of platonic love.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Rather, Lelio and his co-writers have made a smart, subtle disquisition on the necessity of both skepticism and faith, with a particularly keen understanding of religion’s uses and abuses.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But the interplay here too often feels self-conscious, as if the characters themselves have been transformed into Cyranoids for a playwright’s intellectual and political disquisitions.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • That the translation, despite its numerous infirmities, was indeed of Vatsyayana’s 1,600-year-old disquisition was not doubted.
    — Manu S Pillai, Quartz India, 27 June 2019
  • Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas, Larry Brock expressed the following sentiments as part of a lengthy disquisition on the Muslim faith.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Obama's bare arms were in keeping with contemporary fashion, but their particularly lean musculature also served as a silent disquisition on the subject of physical fitness, one of her early East Wing initiatives.
    — Robin Givhan | The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Seven chapters and an interlude are arranged thematically, from an account of Fridtjof Nansen’s 1895 farthest-north record in the Arctic to a speculative disquisition on the future of adventure.
    — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018

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