Debating
[dɪ'betɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debate
(n.) The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Typed by Ewing
Examples
- What is worth debating is the method by which change is to come about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An attempt was made to organize a debating club, but it was a failure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That too is why debating is such a wretched amusement and most partisanship, most controversy, so degrading. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lydgate did not answer, and she saw that he was debating with himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was debating whether I should pretend that I was not well, and fly--I don't know where--upon my gallant grey, when Dora and Miss Mills met me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nobody need waste his time debating whether or not there are to be great changes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typed by Ewing