colloquy

How To Use colloquy In A Sentence

• But again, if the subject is sensitive, the colloquy among the attorneys, prospective jurors, and judge can be held privately at the bench.
• What I can't verify is the colloquy that took place later at the receiving hospital.
• As for the disagreement between him and Sen. John McCain about the future of the country, Obama again took the high road, insisting he was not interested in having a "colloquy" with the Arizona senator over the next four or five days about the issue because it was not in the best interests of the country. Hullabaloo
• At times he seemed to be in a colloquy with his disciples, though sadly their questions were inaudible to us.
• Lamb (who drank only water) retired almost with the dinner itself, nothing remained for men of our principles, the rigor of which we had illustrated by taking rather too much of old port before the cloth was drawn, except talking; amoebaean colloquy, or, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, a dialogue of "brisk reciprocation. Biographical Essays
• he asked, and I inferred from his tone the desire to be excused from further colloquy. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• Finish with a colloquy to Christ our Lord, and finally a paternoster.
• It is a discourse of engaged beholders - quite literally a colloquy of amateurs - and need be nothing more.
• A reasonable observer would no doubt conclude that the First Amendment was not meant to be a platform for ritually re-enacting Paul's colloquy with the Roman magistrate.
• At the colloquy of Worms, 1557, Melanchthon, interpellated by Brenz, is reported to have said that the passage in his _Loci_ of 1548 defining free will as the faculty of applying oneself to grace referred to the regenerated will (_voluntas renata_), as, he said, appeared from the context. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church