"Resolved: that ...," for debaters

Usage examples of topic.

We will return to this topic in later chapters, when we trace the rise of this metabiological absolutizing back to its source in the Enlightenment paradigm.

The topics insisted on, however, were for the most part identical with those which had for a series of years been repeatedly adduced in the commons, so that a repetition of them is unnecessary.

He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.

The bone of her contention and her main topic now, as it had been for months, was the fact that Alee and Mary were together.

During machine lulls, over paper cups of wine, he volunteered topics rather than just politely annotating ours.

Several of the veteran fishermen were suddenly eager for his viewpoint on baiting, and on any number of other topics, at the local tavern where everyone hung out.

Valenglard and Madame Morin began on the topic of the horoscope anew, and I left them, taking Mdlle.

It occurred to him belatedly that syphilis was perhaps not a topic suitable to discuss with a lady.

In the Oswiecim camp itself, Berel said, where one saw the chimneys flame out at night, and smelled the burning hair, meat, and fat, many inmates shunned the topic of the gassings, or even denied that they were happening.

Lamhorn was obviously disturbed, though Bibbs had been as considerate as possible in presenting the weather as a topic.

Rhodes pacified him, though, by congratulating him heartily on the new line of work, asking to see further studies, promising to take the topic of renewed biogenesis up at the very next meeting of the directors.

We spent the time by talking with interest on various topics till Cesarino and the husband came back.

A typical issue of Cryptozoology usually contains one or more articles by scientists on the topic of wildmen.

Hardly any other foreign topic engaged the debating powers of the members, except the all-absorbing one of the hostile proceedings of Russia against Turkey.

Captain Desai, and his attitude often resulted in conversations with her on these and related topics that could be, for lack of a better word, animated.