But the best vehicle for extended argument is still the written word.

He gave a speech at the Virginia Military Institute yesterday that was an extended argument for giving the surge a chance.

And the two were off in an extended argument about less-than-optimal tunnel arcs and trade-offs against air travel.

But Bran at the moment had neither the will nor the energy for an extended argument, and conversation ceased.

"I suspect people are starting to think in sound bites rather than more extended arguments."

Judge Markham looked at Perry Mason as though expecting to hear an extended argument upon this crucial point.

The essay form is itself a legacy of the American public square and its evangelical suspicion of any extended arguments from first principles.

Don't try to mitigate this crass error with extended socio-political argument.

Marginalia create a form of extended argument in which the reader has the upper hand, taking over the text.

The Markle hoax and its extended argument on "aspartamekills.com" are never supported by medical studies.