Plenty of suspenseful grit interspersed with intriguing sound-bite treatises on that particular film genre.

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You need to be inspired by National Geographic, by biological treatises, by literature, by fine painters, by bad painters.

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Other major Christian churches have not only officially endorsed the bill but have published learned treatises explaining their position.

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Architectural treatises dictated general principles for the proportions of the supporting elements, along with roofing techniques such as the forming of domes by corbeling.

WSJ: Enlightenment on an Intimate Scale | The Adinatha Temple at Ranakpur | Masterpiece by James S. Ackerman

Well, if you want a working definition, just rent Brooks' earlier movies, comic treatises of social embarrassment and compounding irritation like "Modern Romance" (1981) or "Lost in America" (1985).

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Now, despite the many learned treatises written on the network effect, it remains unpredictable - what decides whether a joke goes viral, or an appeal for help remains unheard?

BBC: A lost bag - returned by the open web

In 1967, Calderon known by his show-business name, Joe Cuba and the Joe Cuba Sextet bridged a gap between two different branches of the African diaspora without a social movement, speeches or scholarly treatises.

NPR: The Music Of Africa, By Way Of Latin America

President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatises predicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.

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The Framers of our Constitution drew upon classical notions of legal rights and individual liberty dating back to the Justinian Code, the Magna Carta, and the Two Treatises of John Locke, all of which recognize the importance of property ownership in a governmental system in which individual liberty and the free market are paramount.

CNN: McCain's August 6, 2007, speech addressing private property rights