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  • So therefore many learned dissertations could be written which in actual fact contain no really new conceptions.†   (source)
  • It sounded too much like a doctoral dissertation, and he had already done one of those.†   (source)
  • The original thesis of his dissertation had been just that: the advantage of simplifying the human organism.†   (source)
  • He was a lawyer, member of the Bar Association, and author of a respectably long-winded but exceptionally tedious dissertation on finance law.†   (source)
  • And since dissertations can be written about everything under the sun, the number of topics is infinite.†   (source)
  • When his inspiring dissertation was finished, he gave the men the colors of the day still one more time, stressed the angle of approach and reviewed the weather conditions again.†   (source)
  • Adams, who had earlier joined a new law club in Boston started by Jeremiah Gridley, had, at Gridley's suggestion, been working on an essay that would become A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law.†   (source)
  • At the time, he'd just found a publisher for his first novel, The Narwhal Horn, while my mom was pregnant with my brother and trying to finish her dissertation.†   (source)
  • I could give a long dissertation about facial classifications, and softened features, but I won't.†   (source)
  • On my first day back home, I sent an e-mail to Cathy Silber, a professor at Williams College, who in 1988 did field research on nu shu for her dissertation, to say how impressed I was that she had lived for six months in such an isolated and physically uncomfortable area.†   (source)
  • The sequel, 'The Pilgrim Continues His Way,' is mostly a dissertation in dialogue form on the whys and wherefores of the Jesus Prayer.†   (source)
  • Dwight gave the conference a short dissertation on the mines and on his lack of knowledge.†   (source)
  • The trader misconstrued the tenor of the discourse; but the missionary, inured by years of humorless dissertations, soon put him right.†   (source)
  • All the talk about dolphins, all my reading, speculating, including a long philosophical dissertation on their hypothetical dreamsongs as a religio-diagogical form of Indus, for what?†   (source)
  • Echoes of my college dissertation rattled about in my head with the filing-card rhythm of scholarly blank verse.†   (source)
  • His wordy dissertation got on Larisa Feodorovna's nerves.†   (source)
  • In one of his rambling dissertations on what's good and what's bad for Yamacraw, he intimated that his formidable array of hardware was added insurance that the natives would never venture into his compound uninvited.†   (source)
  • I set to work on my dissertation, again choosing Mill as the topic.   (source)
  • She's working on her doctorate and she'll be defending her dissertation this year.   (source)
  • It's the focus of Mia's dissertation, so to speak.   (source)
  • In less than a month she had to defend her dissertation.   (source)
  • I'm writing a popular version of her dissertation and adding my own research.   (source)
    dissertation = lengthy academic paper
  • My dissertation gave a different shape to history, one that was neither Mormon nor anti-Mormon, neither spiritual nor profane.   (source)
    dissertation = a scholarly paper required for an advanced academic degree
  • I wrote an essay on John Stuart Mill's concept of self-sovereignty, and my supervisor, Dr. David Runciman, said that if my dissertation was of the same quality, I might be accepted to Cambridge for a PhD.   (source)
  • Actually, no. In two months I have to defend my dissertation and become a full-fledged doctor, and I feel as cool as a cucumber.   (source)
  • Or Mia's dissertation … I don't know.   (source)
    dissertation = lengthy academic paper
  • She recognized a phrase in the text that was a word-for-word quotation from Johansson's dissertation.   (source)
  • If suppressing Dag's articles—or Mia's dissertation, for that matter—was the motive for the murders, then we have to beef up security here in the office.   (source)
  • He'd turned that paper topic into his senior dissertation, later.†   (source)
  • If students are going to earn degrees, they've got to come up with dissertation topics.†   (source)
  • There was, as usual, the dissertation upon wines, not very.†   (source)
  • "Be it remembered," he wrote in his Dissertation, "that liberty must at all hazards be supported.†   (source)
  • Through the library in Hedestad he had ordered books dealing with Nazism during that time, including Helene Lööw's doctoral dissertation, The Swastika and the Wasa Sheaf, which dealt with the symbols adopted by the German and Swedish Nazis.†   (source)
  • When he was twenty-seven he took his master's degree with the dissertation 'On the Concept of Irony.'†   (source)
  • He doesn't care about their dissertation topics, or their dietary restrictions, or the color of their walls.†   (source)
  • In your dissertation.†   (source)
  • Seventeenth— and eighteenth-century philosophers had inherited a number of such learned dissertations.†   (source)
  • But Gogol and Moushumi aren't thinking of children at the moment, certainly not until Moushumi finishes her dissertation.†   (source)
  • She speaks of her students, the topic for the dissertation she plans to write, about twentieth-century francophone poets from Algeria.†   (source)
  • There's a third thing worth celebrating but which she hasn't mentioned — she's been awarded a research fellowship to work on her dissertation in France for the year.†   (source)
  • Though she still has a dissertation to write, still has an adviser to monitor her progress, she feels unmoored already, somehow beyond the world that has defined and structured and limited her for so long.†   (source)
  • When I entered kindergarten, though, my mom came back to academia with a vengeance, scoring a visiting lectureship and a publisher for her dissertation.†   (source)
  • And I have several articles expected by various journals, my trip to Stratford coming up, and, of course, entirely too many dissertations that clearly cannot be completed without a large amount of hand-holding.†   (source)
  • Deeply hurt, Adams had written an extraordinary reply, a dissertation on the subject of vanity set forth in his clearest, plainest hand, as if intended for posterity as much as for Gerry.†   (source)
  • Government is a plain, simple, intelligent thing, founded in nature and reason, quite comprehensible by common sense [the Dissertation continued]...The true source of our suffering has been our timidity.†   (source)
  • Tansley had had to go in and write his dissertation, he said.†   (source)
  • "Oh, he has his dissertation to write," said Mr. Ramsay.†   (source)
  • When the time came for him to select a subject for his dissertation for his Ph.†   (source)
  • They did not bother one with their dissertations.†   (source)
  • Besides his duties as a junior surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital, he now had to spend every Thursday across the city at the University of Hiroshima, to chip away at his doctoral dissertation on appendicial tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • The time before I quit the University, just a few months before I was supposed to finish my dissertation for the Ph.†   (source)
  • There were long dissertations written in long hand; some were political and others dealt with the history of art.†   (source)
  • it at all and the priests had taught him to write it laboriously so with a hand more apt for a rope or a gunbutt or a knife than a pen) began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing the fine, sonorous flowing of mysticism in a foreign tongue with harsh, extemporised dissertations composed half of the bleak and bloodless logic which he remembered from his father on interminable New England Sundays, and half of immediate hellfire and tangible brimstone of which any country Methodist circuit rider would have been proud.†   (source)
  • Still, he had his dissertation, the influence of somebody upon something: he could take care of himself.†   (source)
  • "James will have to write HIS dissertation one of these days," he added ironically, flicking his sprig.†   (source)
  • He worked hard—seven hours a day; his subject was now the influence of something upon somebody—they were walking on and Mrs. Ramsay did not quite catch the meaning, only the words, here and there...dissertation...fellowship...readership...lectureship.†   (source)
  • except that she had decided, rightly, Mrs. Ramsay thought (and she was very, very fond of Minta), to accept that good fellow, who might not be brilliant, but then, thought Mrs. Ramsay, realising that James was tugging at her, to make her go on reading aloud the Fisherman and his Wife, she did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations; Charles Tansley, for instance.†   (source)
  • It was the lamp he wrote his philosophical dissertations by.†   (source)
  • why, 'tis not simple telling, 'tis dissertation, 'tis analysis!†   (source)
  • But—Way expenses are—Family wasting gasoline, and always dressed like millionaires, and sending that eighty a month to Mother—And all these stenographers and salesmen gouging me for every cent they can get—" The effect of his scientific budget-planning was that he felt at once triumphantly wealthy and perilously poor, and in the midst of these dissertations he stopped his car, rushed into a small news-and-miscellany shop, and bought the electric cigar-lighter which he had coveted for a week.†   (source)
  • "But of course an even more important Cause is—and I was one of the first to advocate it—having a Secretary of Health and Eugenics in the cabinet at Washington—" On the tide of this dissertation they were swept through a stupendous dinner.†   (source)
  • Your last, that dissertation on architecture, was perfectly awful— so "highbrow" that I picture you living in an intellectual and emotional vacuum; and beware of trying to classify people too definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with the world.†   (source)
  • Let me imagine myself back, then, at the day of Maisie's death—or rather at the moment of Florence's dissertation on the Protest, up in the old Castle of the town of M—.†   (source)
  • The first to do so was the now defunct Examiner, which, in the impression bearing date July 15, 1876, entitled one of its articles "The Wessex Labourer," the article turning out to be no dissertation on farming during the Heptarchy, but on the modern peasant of the south-west counties, and his presentation in these stories.†   (source)
  • The painter in his confident English gave little dissertations on his finished and unfinished subjects, seeming to observe Mr. Casaubon as much as he did Dorothea.†   (source)
  • Her tired tongue got a chance to rest, now; for the King's, inspired by gnawing hunger and the fragrant smells that came from the sputtering pots and pans, turned itself loose and delivered itself up to such an eloquent dissertation upon certain toothsome dishes, that within three minutes the woman said to herself, "Of a truth I was right—he hath holpen in a kitchen!"†   (source)
  • Debating clubs are to a certain extent a substitute for theatrical entertainments: an American cannot converse, but he can discuss; and when he attempts to talk he falls into a dissertation.†   (source)
  • No; by your brilliant and almost sublime conversation you have elevated me above the ordinary level; we no longer talk, we rise to dissertation.†   (source)
  • He left behind him five or six very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Genesis, In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters.†   (source)
  • The parties separated, Richard holding a close dissertation with Mr. Le Quoi, as they descended the stairs, on the subject of psalmody, which he closed by a violent eulogium on the air of the "Bay of Biscay, 0," as particularly connected with his friend Benjamin's execution.†   (source)
  • At this moment in his speech he went off into a dissertation on Grushenka's "first lover," and brought forward several interesting thoughts on this theme.†   (source)
  • And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult one in the course of these dissertations, I have invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer's uncommon personal bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me.†   (source)
  • Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which†   (source)
  • This blade is steel—" My uncle stopped me abruptly on my way to a dissertation which would have taken me a long way, and said coolly: "Be calm, Axel, and reasonable.†   (source)
  • In another dissertation, he examines the theological works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemais, great-grand-uncle to the writer of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be attributed the divers little works published during the last century, under the pseudonym of Barleycourt.†   (source)
  • "I am prejudiced against Beauchamp," said Albert, drawing Franz away, and leaving the former to finish his philosophical dissertation with Debray.†   (source)
  • In ten minutes after the strangers had departed, Franz was on the road to the Piazza de Spagni, listening with studied indifference to the learned dissertation delivered by Albert, after the manner of Pliny and Calpurnius, touching the iron-pointed nets used to prevent the ferocious beasts from springing on the spectators.†   (source)
  • "She could not, however," he thought, "help feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obregon de la Ronde, which M. Francois de Neufchateau put, as though it were his own, at the head of his edition of Gil Blas."†   (source)
  • It was entitled "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain."†   (source)
  • But it was as much an affectation in those [Pg060] days as it is today, and Webster indicated the fact pretty plainly in his "Dissertations."†   (source)
  • Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland or something of that sort which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth, far and away superior to England, with coal in large quantities, six million pounds worth of pork exported every year, ten millions between butter and eggs and all the riches drained out of it by England levying taxes on the poor people that paid through the nose always and gobbling up the best meat in the market and a lot more surplus steam in the same vein.†   (source)
  • His own figures, as the following table from his dissertation shows,[19] were against him: English 60,000,000 German 52,000,000 Russian 45,000,000 French 45,000,000 Spanish 40,000,000 This in 1868.†   (source)
  • In his little volume of "Dissertations on the English Language," printed in 1789 and dedicated to "His Excellency, Benjamin Franklin, Esq., LL.†   (source)
  • A glance through Webster's "Dissertations" is sufficient to show that the flat /a/ was in use in New England in 1789, for the pronunciation of such words as /wrath/, /bath/ and /path/, as given by him, makes them rhyme with /hath/.†   (source)
  • "I have heard in this country," he wrote in 1781, "in the senate, at the bar, and from the pulpit, and see daily in dissertations from the press, errors in grammar, improprieties and vulgarisms which hardly any person of the same class in point of rank and literature would have fallen into in Great Britain."†   (source)
  • [3] In acknowledging the dedication of Webster's "Dissertations" Franklin endorsed both his revolt against English domination and his forecast of widening differences in future, though protesting at the same time against certain Americanisms that have since come into good usage, and even migrated to England†   (source)
  • The passion for complete political independence of England bred a general hostility to all English authority, whatever its character, and that hostility, in the direction of present concern to us, culminated in the revolutionary attitude of Noah Webster's "Dissertations on the English Language," printed in 1789.†   (source)
  • Prudence
    thereupon launches into a long dissertation on the advantages of
    riches, the evils of poverty, the means by which wealth should
    be gathered, and the manner in which it should be used; and
    concludes by counselling her husband not to move war and
    battle through trust in his riches, for they suffice not to maintain
    war, the battle is not always to the strong or the numerous, and
    the perils of conflict are many.†   (source)
  • An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.†   (source)
  • Baba would enlighten me with his politics during those walks with long-winded dissertations.   (source)
    dissertations = long explorations of a topic in monologue form
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