Too many representatives chose to bloviate instead of interrogate — except for one.
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"The Nigerian style has always been to bloviate, to put some isms," Imasuen says.
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Candidates who can speak in soundbites tend to perform better than those who can bloviate about complex topics.
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Tactically, it's so much more useful to them to bloviate about its contents rather than risk revealing the chicanery behind it.
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It allows such leaders to bloviate and claim action, while unintended negative consequences often occur and bad conduct is not changed.
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If he's left to bloviate while others are left to run the country and push through infrastructure plans, maybe things won't be disastrous.
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This month one of your closest friends will open up and confess his or her love to you, Scorpio, so be prepared to dive in. Phosphoroscope. Gasiform. Bloviate.
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The decline of the American media has been stunning and has coincided with the rise of the Internet where nuts can bloviate all over the place without consequence.
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Colbert acknowledged that he "owe[s] a lot to Bill O'Reilly," after spending nine years in character as him (and "12 months in therapy to de-bloviate myself").
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Trump likes to bloviate about China and unfair trade deals, but you can take China out of the equation and the American jobs lost to cheap labor in Asia are not coming back.
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"I've got a sneaking suspicion that the so-called experts who bloviate about the death of advertising on the web don't actually, you know, communicate on the web," the "Mad Money " host said Thursday.
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NASA also likes to bloviate about its Journey to Mars in the 2030s, and there are a handful of other, shadier plans to colonize the Red Planet championed by celebrities, billionaires, and even the UAE.
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And so I sit back each week and luxuriate in the sensational speeches, the heightened characters, and the appeals to justice all knowing that everyone will bloviate so much that I'll get what is going on and why.
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One recurring joke – and a common complaint among women in the tech industry – is that Riley can bloviate about strategy and use impenetrable jargon, but whenever Delia makes a statement it instantly gets challenged by the various men in the room.
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Right now, all it represents is an opportunity for Donald Trump to, once again, bloviate in excess, and for the media to pat themselves on the back for being "fair and balanced" when it comes to coverage of the two candidates.
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He then went on to bloviate about "clean coal," which, besides not actually existing, also allowed him to neatly side-step any tough statements about climate change, climate science, or any of the specific issues currently plaguing our planet that will almost certainly cause our downfall in about 100-odd years.
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The most the feds usually do is set a broad policy agenda, fund specific components of the K-12 system (including IDEA and other programs for at-risk youth), and otherwise bloviate a lot about how they believe children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way, blah blah.
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House Republicans got to spend several hours bloviating about bogus claims that the large tech companies deliberately suppress conservative viewpoints, while Pichai got to spend several hours listening to House Republicans bloviate—which meant he didn't have to spend much time talking about even more uncomfortable subjects, like his company's aggressive data collection and user tracking.
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The Internet itself offers proof of the enormous human desire to produce text — to pontificate, edit, elegize, redact, hash out, bloviate, opine and instruct.
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Writer Katha Pollitt speculates that men have a greater tendency to bloviate than women -- possibly a result of their socialization. She supposes that this accounts in some degree to the imbalance in the gender of political opinion writers and the prevalence of male opinion in the blogosphere.
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Harding loved to travel and had long contemplated a trip to Alaska. The trip would allow him to speak widely across the country, to politic and bloviate in advance of the 1924 campaign, and allow him some rest away from Washington's oppressive summer heat. Harding's political advisers had given him a physically demanding schedule, even though the president had ordered it cut back. In Kansas City, Harding spoke on transportation issues; in Hutchinson, Kansas, agriculture was the theme.
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Reynolds titles a chapter 'Small Is the New Big'. He discusses the rise of "armchair workers" (through companies such as eBay), doing work at home--as well as specialty-based cottage industries such as Coffin's Shoes in Knoxville, TN. He argues that future trends will create a mosaic of co-existing big box retailers, local firms, and businesses run from home. Reynolds writes, "where before journalists and pundits could bloviate at leisure, offering illogical analysis or citing 'facts' that were in fact false, now the Sunday morning op-eds have already been dissected on Saturday night, within hours of their appearing on newspapers' websites." He states that the internet has redistributed access to information from professional journalists acting as media gatekeepers to millions of ordinary people in the blogosphere and elsewhere.
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