To these, Szantho responded with long dissertations showing how ill informed and unsupportable my views were.

Scaramanga went off into a long dissertation which was only of passing interest to Bond.

"She's retired from show business, and her calls are usually long dissertations on her recent activities."

This deserves much more intensive scrutiny and a good long dissertation on what is involved.

The General went into "a long dissertation.

Mark came on the line and started a long dissertation about the latest mystery he had read.

"I could give a long dissertation about facial classifications, and softened features, but I won't."

It is simpler to make the note "Jones p. 253" than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print.

He responded on Feb. 9, 1954, with a long dissertation on the philosophy of love.

But he does offer in introduction a long and original dissertation on his subject in literature.