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"I brought cookies," Steidl announced, holding forth a small brown parcel.
As night fell on Wigstock, Bunny was holding forth for her seventh hour.
Holding forth without interruption, he introduced the forensic discipline's basic principles and lexicon.
"He sat on the bed, holding forth and rolling joints," Mr. Lloyd said.
We may stake no claim to representing, advocating or otherwise holding forth about the grieving process.
Holding forth in her office, Ms. Pelosi brandished an instinct for Trumpian adjectives and workday habits.
Now and again, when I am holding forth, I feel my father's hand upon my shoulder.
I'd even say literally in my ear, since he's holding forth from the backseat of my car.
The seven-term Democratic representative from Ohio is holding forth at a conference on building healthier communities.
And he's in a Quonset hut in Boston, holding forth to the Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris.
He used to sit by an old blue van of his, grilling and holding forth with neighbors.
No sooner was he out of the White House than he was on "60 Minutes," holding forth.
Clinton, briefly holding forth on his announced subject, the Affordable Care Act, but quickly meandering to other topics.
Yet here was Mr. Rouhani, holding forth for nearly two hours in a frank appeal to reformist voters.
It turned out to be an evening of tottering around eating fashionable nibbles, while holding forth on serious subjects.
On the news, Trump is holding forth on something or the other again: evil Mexicans, evil Muslims, evil Democrats.
A new priest named Mindar is holding forth at Kodaiji, a 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.
Do you remember President-elect Trump holding forth on the campaign trail about "China beating us at our own game"?
On Wednesday evening, we watched her holding forth on mainstream television news, where she has not been a regular guest.
He is a demanding interlocutor, capable of holding forth for 40 minutes or more without notes in detailed, data-heavy presentations.
But he bided his time, holding forth as a radio talk-show host until he was eligible to run again, in 1990.
Even if it was George R.R. Martin himself holding forth on the topic, you'd probably prefer he wait until after the episode.
The mere possibility of his holding forth next to Lady Liberty has created a buzz in political circles and among immigration advocates.
Even when none of the voices are holding forth on the subject, they will still glimmer in and out of the musical conversation.
Sam is holding forth on relationships, but as is often true of most everyone in "Golden Exits," she is also talking about herself.
Colin Quinn always seems like a barstool philosopher, some guy you'd see holding forth — entertainingly, pint in hand — down at the corner pub.
But the Johnson amendment precludes only this kind of talk; it does not bar preachers from holding forth on moral issues of the day.
Rose proved to be a charismatic orator, holding forth with the exuberance and volume that were essential before the advent of loudspeakers and mics.
All three children were homeschooled through second grade, with Badu holding forth in her converted rec room or, when necessary, on her tour bus.
Of course, the divide isn't as absolute as that; books can chronicle real-time experiences and films often include talking heads holding forth about the past.
By Saturday afternoon, perhaps only Mr. Sanford had won many new admirers, holding forth for over three hours, including two spent addressing the overflow crowd outside.
In a matter of months, Rostow moved from holding forth in the academy to planning America's strategy in Vietnam, tightly guided by his ideas about economic development.
Now he has become a kind of volatile elder statesman of hip-hop, holding forth on his podcast, social media and YouTube before an audience of millions.
Buoyed on a pink cloud of fizz, I sounded off on these themes, as well as holding forth on, say, an amusing incident that occurred in Mrs.
Within pages, I found myself suffering at the hands of its tyrannical egomaniac of a protagonist, Howard Roark, forever plunging a fist into soil and holding forth.
Holding forth from the pounding heart of a rapturous crowd, the President spelled out a defiant, demagogic, fact-blurring record of promises kept that could win him reelection.
Theresa, a formidable middle-aged professor (played by Jayne Houdyshell, in daunting mode), is at an academic conference, holding forth with steamroller confidence on the oppression of marginal peoples.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, had been holding forth on the Senate floor on the eve of Mr. Sessions's expected confirmation vote, reciting a 1986 letter from Mrs.
CreditCreditFrank Augstein/Associated Press Julian Assange was in classic didactic form, holding forth on the topic that consumes him — the perfidy of big government and especially of the United States.
There, lawmakers spent their Tuesday afternoon staring into cameras and holding forth on what the president might say, should say, couldn't say — and why it all mattered very, very much.
At a resort in Hawaii, she watches with horror as Steve taunts a parrot, holding forth a bread crumb only to snatch it away when the bird reaches for it.
Holding forth last week at the committee's stately headquarters in Doylestown, Ms. Poprik said many residents who initially feared publicly identifying as Trump voters had unmasked themselves since the election.
He arrived twenty minutes late and started talking, holding forth, and when he didn't stop I finally interrupted him, reminded him that I had to leave, and offered my dissent.
Sports of The Times I walked into my kitchen one morning last week and caught baseball's commissioner, Rob Manfred, holding forth on ESPN Radio about the state of his sport.
" While ostensibly educating her, he assumes "that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth," she writes, "eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke not long before him, holding forth with trademark folksiness and a poignant remembrance of his son Beau, who died last year of brain cancer.
Instead, she records one performer after another on various soundstage sets who usually sit or occasional stand facing the camera, reciting (or reading) dialogue or holding forth on the real case.
From the hearing's opening moments, lawmakers took turns lamenting the state of the Senate, holding forth on the present divisions but appearing resigned to the institutional upheaval that awaits this week.
In this movie, Rat and Bear wander through bucolic landscapes, into the depths of a cavern and over a glacier in the Swiss Alps, arguing and holding forth on high-minded topics.
But for all the footage there is and will be of LaVar Ball holding forth on basketball and basketball-adjacent topics, there is precious little video of LaVar Ball actually playing basketball.
In the primaries, he regularly disparaged Mr. Trump's judgment on judicial matters, holding forth on a "radical pro-abortion extremist" federal judge who happens to be Mr. Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry.
Holding forth on Thursday, Mr. Trump did allow for the possibility that he could change his mind about Mr. McConnell, saying he would be "very happy with him" if legislation starts churning.
He was also something of a media star, holding forth on panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos and celebrating his 2181 marriage at Versailles with actors dressed in 22017th-century costume.
Holding forth in the master bedroom is a Reinhard Mucha work of 22015-28 that features a cheap equipment stand for a 2000-millimeter film projector, its speakers duct-taped to the poles.
The first day of hearings is particularly heavy-going: 21 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee take turns holding forth on law, justice and the American way while the nominee sits in silent repose.
Just a few days ago, Conyers was seen holding forth at a holiday party for the 13th Congressional District Democrats — though he also recently held an event to ring in his Senate reelection bid.
Clinton the Democratic nominee, dozens of Sanders supporters stormed out and encamped in one of the media tents, holding forth to throngs of reporters about their anger at the party and its presidential candidate.
But, as he watched a replay of the new candidate holding forth for forty-five minutes, he noticed something strange: over the decades, Trump appeared to have convinced himself that he had written the book.
With racial issues roiling the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio has stepped to the fore, appearing on national television, speaking at church services and holding forth at news conferences to deliver a nuanced message of reconciliation.
He did the same in refusing to discuss allegations in his own federal court filings but had no trouble holding forth on how WikiLeaks is a foreign intelligence operation or how answers from Trump were incomplete.
"At least this president is holding forth for everyone to see in a listening session," Kellyanne Conway, his counselor, said on Fox Business Network after conservatives expressed uncertainty about his publicly televised session on gun control.
That said, "the whole discourse around this is problematic," Hamid added, noting that no president would hold forth on any other religion, so the idea of holding forth on Islam is peculiar, even potentially offensive ground.
He can speak at times like a sort of Midwestern oracle with a sweet tooth, by turns invoking Aristotle and Aquinas, raising the radio volume for "Stairway to Heaven" and holding forth on the majesty of dessert.
In 1973, he began teaching at Bennington College in Vermont, where he stayed on as a professor until 2012, holding forth on topics well beyond any single subject, despite having no more than a high school diploma.
Some Cubans say they miss the charismatic leader who accompanied them for decades, holding forth on topics from nuclear energy to farming in famously long speeches, lending the revolution moral authority and him a sense of invincibility.
In the Washington of that classic 20th-century film director Frank Capra, with Jimmy Stewart holding forth on the Senate floor and a moist-eyed Jean Arthur cheering him on from the gallery, this might have happened.
At least a decade before Mr. Trump was elected president, with responsibilities that would include nominating experts to lead the nation's health centers, the hotelier and commercial developer was holding forth with great confidence about medical topics.
Letter of Recommendation Each day along the upper railings of my top-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, starlings alight and start holding forth in an ever-­evolving chorus of clown whistles, clicks and shards of expert mimicry.
In April, only months after a groundbreaking Vatican conference called by Francis to address the Roman Catholic Church's clerical sex abuse crisis, he released a 6,000-word letter holding forth on his views on the scandal's origins.
There was just Mr. Cenac, 41, alone on a set resembling a groovy 1970s rec room, holding forth on topics like the interstellar aspirations of Elon Musk, the SpaceX chief executive, and the scientific uses of human excrement.
What really caught the attention of Egyptians, though, was a photo of the interview that showed Mr. Mubarak in a suit, sitting in a lavishly decorated room, holding forth as he had for so many years in power.
"The Owl's Legacy," written with Jean-Claude Carrière, is populated by a lively group of artists and intellectuals — most of them Greek or French — holding forth and often disputing the enduring influence of Greek antiquity on contemporary civilization.
He never wanted to be one of those blustering dads, the backyard know-it-all, holding forth on how, in the real world, if you just stop and think about it, there are two types of people, or whatever.
In Robert Hilferty's documentary "Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer," Babbitt is seen holding forth at a favorite Chinese restaurant, analyzing Brahms and Schoenberg, singing the old pop tune "Dream a Little Dream of Me," and constantly cracking jokes.
Although Southcom's area of responsibility does not include Mexico, this did not discourage Kelly from holding forth on the country, making claims that, according to Obama-administration officials, sometimes contradicted the intelligence of Northcom, the Pentagon command covering Mexico.
He made his way to the back of the room and saw that the laughing man had taken over the bar area and was making Texas margaritas for everyone and holding forth to a circle of people gathered around.
There are images of Obama holding forth as a young senator; Margaret Thatcher and George H.W. Bush walking the grounds just after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990; Condoleezza Rice, before she became secretary of state, leaning over a seminar table.
One especially tedious interview—with a mullah, another fucking mullah holding forth from behind a vertical index finger—had yielded a kind of comic strip of me leaping from a skyscraper, shooting myself midair, and landing in front of a bus.
"[While] Pozzi was performing in erotic cabarets and filming cheesy porn flicks, she lived a parallel life as a respected pundit on television talk shows, philosophizing about sexual freedom or holding forth on gay rights or denouncing the Mafia," the Times wrote.
The society is a protest against the unacceptable censorship of people edging away from them at parties when they start holding forth about how feminism poisons everything; it's a fury against the fact that people get offended when you're offensive to them.
Hillary Clinton has been on a bit of a media tear the past few weeks, holding forth on both the personal and the political — and making clear that someone needs to perform an intervention before she further complicates life for her fellow Democrats.
Just last week, Benedict, who turned 92 on Tuesday, released a 6,000-word letter holding forth on his views on the origins of the Roman Catholic Church's clerical sex abuse crisis — effectively undercutting Francis on a contentious issue that has roiled his papacy.
The senator, gregarious in person, has passed most of his Washington down time reading, he said, holding forth with fluency on chronic disease management and flood insurance and expressing broad support for President Trump, with whom he campaigned before his December victory.
A gregarious, backslapper of a man, Mr. Clark works out of the Phoenix office, and he exudes the can-do spirit of the traditional financial adviser one often finds teeing off at the golf course or holding forth at a rotary luncheon.
It's more because Christie, in the sort of working retirement that he's made of his last years as New Jersey's governor, has seemed a lot more interested in holding forth on sports than he has on, say, getting rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Ken Watanabe is holding forth as an unusually playful King of Siam in "The King and I" at the London Palladium, and Rhys Ifans, as the vainglorious despot in a rare local sighting of Eugène Ionesco's "Exit the King," at times suggests a Lear-in-waiting.
And Ms. Jones's scenic design, in the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center, made evocative use of projections, a near-constant play of shadow and light in black and white, with Mr. Bostridge often holding forth against gigantic ghostly images of his (the protagonist's?) younger self.
Where the book's digressions sometimes bog down are in its more self-reflective moments: Noe the storyteller defending himself against charges (but whose?) of sentimentality and holding forth on the relationship between story and truth, the real and the imagined, and the enriching merits of the arts.
CreditCreditSasha Rudensky for The New York Times On a recent Saturday afternoon, an exiled Chinese billionaire named Guo Wengui was holding forth in his New York apartment, sipping tea while an assistant lingered quietly just outside the door, slipping in occasionally to keep Guo's glass cup perfectly full.
But few of his customers — and likely, none of his viewers in Egypt — know that the man making egg sandwiches and small talk behind the counter is the same one who appears on popular Egyptian television news programs, holding forth on subjects from immigration policy to North Korea.
As he runs for president, Mr. Biden, the former vice president, has also taken on another role: self-appointed political pundit for his very own primary race, holding forth on the nuances and mechanics of the contest at every turn in the manner of a commentator on cable news.
For Mr. Trump's critics, and even a few supporters, the sight of him in official settings has always proved jarring since his election: Mr. Trump holding forth in the East Room, Mr. Trump behind the presidential seal, Mr. Trump among the newly-gilded drapes of the Oval Office.
The Perceptionists: Resolution (Mello Music) On their 2005 debut, quick, clear, literate, Boston-based, Bajan-American rappers Mr. Lif and Akrobatik sounded more musical trading timbres as a duo than holding forth on their worthy solo albums—little guy Lif clipped and cool and pitched deeper, Akrobatik the good-natured jock.
Here, the young, the old and the in-betweens have frank debates about the state of their democracy, holding forth over hot dogs and beer, ducking in and out of tents to hear speeches on issues both profound and personal, and, perhaps, helping to find solutions to problems in their society.
All in all, it was an unusual scene — the president on vacation at a golf club, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, holding forth on everything from the possibility of nuclear war to whether he would fire the special counsel investigating him.
The best scenes illustrate the latter -- from Madoff lieutenant Frank DiPascali (Hank Azaria) crudely holding forth about women by comparing them to cars to Madoff acting uninterested in an investor's money, until the mark practically begs him to accept hundreds of millions of dollars, roughly three times the figure he originally proposed.
But I prefer the disruptive Soares masterminded by producer Guilherme Kastrup on 2016's The Woman at the End of the World (A Muher Do Fim Do Mundo)—the same Soares I got to witness holding forth from atop a pyramidal six-foot throne at an enthralled Town Hall in May, 2017.
She is at home in front of a power-point presentation, holding forth on what she sees as the ultimate prize: dismantling established political structures to make it viable for outsiders to run and win without the blessing of county bosses who still rule with tight fists in many parts of the state.
She had just ministered to the guests at a reception held in her honor, holding forth on a back porch for an hour and a half about the "moral and spiritual awakening" she vowed to lead from the White House in order to "heal the low-level emotional civil war" underway in a broken America.
Reading it is a bit like being at a dinner party where a smart and opinionated guest is squiffily holding forth, in an almost stream-of-­consciousness mode, on everything from the future of football to the dangers of unfriendly A.I. to the (supposedly) timeless interest of the sitcom "Roseanne" to the hidden contradictions in the First Amendment.
Sadie and Bessie Delany, holding forth at Long Wharf Theater in Emily Mann's Tony-nominated 1995 play, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years," are very particular about things, whether the exact placement of a spotlessly white cutwork tablecloth, the precise thickness of an orange slice for ambrosia, or the careful arrangement of sparkling goblets and candlesticks.
Clinton had been holding forth on Tuesday in a Haverford community center gymnasium, beside her daughter, Chelsea, and the actress Elizabeth Banks, for a town hall — a "FAMILY TOWN HALL," according to the blue block letters behind her onstage — speaking to a largely female crowd in the kind of Philadelphia suburb that could decide this critical state.
After a day and a half of fun and games at NATO'S 70th anniversary gathering where he clashed with French President Emmanuel Macron and appeared to be mocked by Canada's Justin Trudeau and other NATO leaders in an embarrassing video, the President decided to cancel one of his favorite pastimes — holding forth at the final press conference.
So it was, in the throes of the presidential primary chaos, that the tarmac of Mobile Regional Airport in Alabama hosted an unusual encounter in late February: former President Bill Clinton and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, exchanging pleasantries and holding forth on the state of an election that often included a stark prediction from Mr. Cruz on the stump.
It was about whether they could pull off one of the most intriguing experiments in late-night television history; whether Mr. Colbert, who became a leading voice in American political satire by playing a fictional character on his Comedy Central show — holding forth before a cable congregation of the converted — could succeed as himself in the big broad tent of network television, whose commercial and corporate imperatives can be homogenizing.
Mr. Trump delivered a stream-of-consciousness survey of his transition to the presidency and an update on the state of his psyche, holding forth on his being a "germaphobe," his belief that many foreign governments secretly videotape Americans in "the strangest places" inside hotel rooms, and his low opinion of BuzzFeed, which published an unsubstantiated report prepared by the intelligence community that Russia had collected compromising information on him.
Aboard Bob Dylan's bus for the Rolling Thunder Revue tour with Joan Baez, listening to Allen Ginsberg holding forth; on the go again on a chilly night in April 1955, backstage among the 40-plus musicians at Charlie Parker's memorial concert at Carnegie Hall, which Hentoff co-produced and to which he contributed program copy; or in the studio with Cecil Taylor and Abbey Lincoln producing the album We Insist!
Stephen A. Smith will always get extremely upset about the wrong thing, because that is something like his job; the conversation about the NFL will never be less silly or less serious, but only louder and larger, until eventually those towering sets are crowded to capacity with men in suits, all holding forth, gravely and at the top of their lungs, about which wide receivers are too immature to make it in the National Football League.

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