“An oblique allegory of violence, this painting is also a disquisition on how history impinges on the present, or fails to.”

“He'd launched into a disquisition on which planes he intended to fly once he was a pilot.”

“Others are more substantial, including a long disquisition in Spanish addressed to President Fox and attached to a house on the highway.”

“And it is easy to find lengthy disquisitions from Macaulay, Churchill, Smuts, and the like to this effect.”

“I'm thinking especially of the photographs that accompany Austerlitz's architectural disquisitions.”

“There are no pretentious disquisitions on the supposed post-modernist significance of trashy TV game shows.”