So don't base your actions on their pontificating and pronouncements.
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Once again, he's got the political world buzzing, the pundits pontificating.
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Not-Geroge's pontificating makes Bailey cry, which nearly makes me cry.
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You're not just some person pontificating on startups, of which there are many.
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What happens if rather than junking, after the pontificating, Republicans instead fix it.
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KS: Right, so you would rather have that than pontificating from people. Interesting.
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We staggered home from parties pontificating on the pointless evil of Western religion.
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Comedy may be less onerous, but pontificating about the Way the Universe Works ain't.
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Carrie and I used to stay up til dawn chatting and pontificating about life.
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Carrie and I used to stay up 'til dawn chatting and pontificating about life.
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It is noise without action; pontificating about politics without running for office or voting.
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It is noise without action; pontificating about politics without running for office or voting.
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You walk away after hours of talking and pontificating about your TV show, your career.
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But during my pontificating, a puritanical snitch told the librarian I was showing off porn.
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We don't know if Facebook will make any substantive changes as a result of its pontificating.
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When he speaks in meetings, associates say, he sticks to the facts and tends to avoid pontificating.
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And this may sound odd for a columnist to say, but we need more reporting, less pontificating.
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There's no need to launch a polemic or spend the whole film pontificating, but the absence feels significant.
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We're not much closer to the future Intel promised, but another round of pontificating should be fun nonetheless.
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He has 280 characters and makes full use of them, pontificating on everything from Bitcoin to political theory.
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After that, the Senate trial can officially start Tuesday, and everyone can stop pontificating over what happens next.
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And it was not just the words but the structure of the sentences, which were inverted, tuned for pontificating.
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Wilson: A lot of what happens on Twitter today and on all of these social platforms is people pontificating.
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Even friendly Facebook has become a no-go zone for some escapism because of all the pontificating political posts.
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The theoretical pontificating of 18th- and 19th-century political economists on welfare and inequality had rather fallen out of fashion.
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It was hard to imagine sitting through another 90 min of Trump pontificating and Hillary keeping her emotions in check.
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"Much of the recent pontificating about the technical elements of obstruction of justice is quite beside the point," he said.
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Jared Taylor was writing and pontificating on the topic of "race realism" long before the emergence of the alt-right.
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In either case, as with the rest of Gundy's pontificating, the monologue reveals far more about the speaker than the subject.
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You may know Sriram from Tech Twitter — he's a regular fixture there, pontificating, debating and snarking in 140 characters or less.
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Listening to Sibyl practicing monologues, Townes telling shaggy-dog anecdotes or Blaze punning and pontificating is like watching prospectors panning gold.
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His reviews — listy, pontificating, proscriptive — were a form of self-advertising that also served as a useful means of self-critique.
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He despises the routine: the pontificating non-questions, the attempts to draw him into conflict and the length of the hearings.
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There are some, particularly loud folks on TV and on Twitter, who like the pontificating vitriol, wild rhetoric and extremist views.
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Bush 85033, Michael Milken and other elites pontificating at the St. Regis champion a kind of variation on the Noble Savage theory.
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Dogs don't brag, and you rarely see them pontificating on news shows, so it's up to humans to act as their publicists.
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Compare Oliver with the guys pontificating about kaiseki sashimi courses on Chef's Table and he comes across as even more vanilla. Literally.
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Many people weighed in, formally through letters, informally by calling chambers, pontificating on cable TV, and in blogs, op-eds, and tweets.
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This is not a book to be a stickler about; that would be like pontificating about microbrews instead of just getting drunk.
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Aged Gershom Wald is "an ugly man, broad, crooked and hunchbacked," who spends his days pontificating to old friends on the phone.
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I remember walking around in my diaper as I went, daydreaming, talking to my imaginary friends, pontificating on the meaning of life.
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Pontificating stormtroopers, confused hostages, Grinchy council members, and one reference to Clerks: Plug in those earbuds and listen up, it's a Christmas miracle!
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Greene shifts back and forth between re-enactments of a deadly miners' strike and unscripted pontificating about politics from some of the locals.
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After all, "authenticity" is both a badge of honor and a four-letter insult in the world of professional food pontificating these days.
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But at least they would be more productive than debating or pontificating on disputed quotes, leaks, and innuendo about any president's personal behavior.
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They tend to rehash the same conversations over and over, pontificating about their partners' imperfections but becoming hostile when confronted about their own.
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Standing in front of a captive audience pontificating about whatever I'm interested in today was never and will never be appropriate for learning.
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There is a very high probability that you haven't seen The Leftovers and are tired of writers on the internet (hello!) pontificating about it.
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An actor dressed to look like Boris Johnson was roving, posing for selfies and pontificating about Brexit in character to anyone who would listen.
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If a person wanted to be virtuous, they must do virtuous things, and not spend their time studying and pontificating about what virtue is.
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But not as old as pontificating about how much saner and less stressful it all used to be, back in the good old days.
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Data from Untappd, a beer-rating site with 7m (mostly American) users, confirm that pontificating pint-swillers turn their noses up at mass-market lager.
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The idea of men sitting around on all these networks pontificating on a woman&aposs dress, why aren&apost women talking about veils and dresses?
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He noted that premium increases for next year have not been as high so far as some people were "worriedly pontificating" that they would be.
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The band launches into their songs, and I'm immediately reminded of early Marilyn Manson, before the acting career and the pontificating and the bloated belly.
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But they know he does better in situations that call for more connecting and less pontificating, more interaction with voters and less debate-stage combat.
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Dershowitz, who became known for defending O.J. Simpson, became famous because he seemed to love pontificating on any legal point wherever there was a camera.
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" Concluding the post, she wrote, "Ok, I'm done pontificating now," before adding, "#thoseheavenlydays are making every year of your life matter as best as you can.
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Insiders suspect that it was Mr Rajan's sideline as a public intellectual, pontificating on matters far removed from economics, that undermined him in Mr Modi's eyes.
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Most commissions in Washington are little more than hamster wheels — meaningless exercises in pontificating that work more like a show horse rather than a work horse.
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There's really nothing more gross and ghoulish than people in the media pontificating on a public persons health and the hypothetical political ramifications of their death.
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"At a more granular level," Feehery continued, the so-called influencers distanced themselves from the actual voters, retreating into a bubble and pontificating from their gated communities.
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Fall's major characters spend most of their time outside Bitworld either pontificating on technical concepts or pondering the masses' foolish customs with a sense of anthropological bemusement.
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This is genius because It's easy for the Commanders and Nicks of the world to pretend that women love their new place when it's just them pontificating.
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But the truth is that in matters of modern psychology, we are really hardly more advanced than eighteenth-century doctors pontificating about the movement of bodily humors.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: The guy had planted himself at the bottom of the subway stairs, where he was pontificating loudly about the lack of privacy in society.
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Roger Allam's pungently played Roy Jenkins is heard pontificating on "the Stygian gloom" of Brussels, though his Continental discontent doesn't keep him from knocking back the Château Lafite.
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Michele acknowledges it: His collections, for all their pontificating cant about notions of the contemporaneous, and philosophical quotes from Roland Barthes, are rooted in turn-of-the-'70s nostalgia.
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What is less reasonable, but unfortunately just as predictable, was the swell of pontificating about Canó's supposedly now-destroyed legacy, specifically as it applies to the Hall of Fame.
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Someone's pontificating on their crushing anxiety about the future, you put your phone down, five seconds later you've missed 50 messages, and now everyone's going on about Minecraft parody songs.
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Legions of Twiglet-limbed bloggers pontificating about the "healing benefits" of turmeric tea or a cleansing asana in their £95 Lululemon yoga pants could be seen as mild cultural appropriation.
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Together, they deal with their pontificating pothead brother Bran, from whom Arya acquires a handy Valyrian steel dagger that can destroy White Walkers, and also Little Finger (just a thought).
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Andrew M. Cuomo and the Democrats in the New York State Senate was going as many did: Mr. Cuomo was pontificating and the Democrats were listening, neither side particularly pleased.
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"There's really nothing more gross and ghoulish than people in the media pontificating on a public persons health and the hypothetical political ramifications of their death," McCain tweeted Friday afternoon.
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Had Mr. Trump not won the election, Hollywood could have continued to ignore Mr. Woolery and Mr. Young, 59, as two more pontificating cranks: Ho-hum, and back to NPR.
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As a result, except for local news coverage and political pontificating about black-on-black crime, everyday deaths seldom get much media coverage, and the public rarely seems to care.
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There are no brothers in arms, no flashbacks to simpler times and pretty wives and girlfriends left behind, no old men in situation rooms pontificating about politics or helping with exposition.
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So except for local news coverage and conservative political pontificating about black-on-black crime, everyday deaths seldom get much media coverage and the public at large rarely seems to care.
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That embarrassing session was followed by a series of town halls dominated by shouting, politicians pontificating, and lots of disinformation from people on both sides of the developing Obamacare bill creation process.
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Although there's not much more than a bunch of pontificating palaver around hyperloop technologies now, the startup companies and their corporate backers do present an compelling vision of the future of transportation.
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He claims to be a simple engineer, not into VC-style pontificating — but he does have some deep thoughts to share on the future of content, and where Nuzzel fits into it.
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The obvious answer is that he doesn't want to alienate Catholic voters, who make up about 20% of the American electorate and likely don't want to see politicians pontificating about their Pope.
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But many of those same posturing and pontificating politicians are far too accepting of another, arguably equally grave threat to our democracy -- the demonization of a free press by President Donald Trump.
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Whether it's aggressively dancing Fortnite players, pontificating Pod Save Americans, or misogynistic Rick and Morty fans, the dark side of a pop culture cult can cast a pall on the whole group.
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Photos by Bryan Allen Lamb "Age doesn't matter: It's a man-made concept that we created just to keep time," Zarif Wilder offers emphatically, pontificating a bit at the end of a long brunch.
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"She Wants It" is a coming-of-age and coming out story that is gently comedic, like most of Mx. Soloway's oeuvre, and interwoven, as its grandiose subtitle suggests, with some gender studies pontificating.
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So except for local news coverage and conservative political pontificating about black-on-black crime, the more common everyday deaths seldom get much media coverage and the public at large rarely seems to care.
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" A small video displayed within a cramped box showed a suited man in a goofy mask pontificating, making grandiose statements like "So we can both, bit by bit, go hand in hand, developing my prosperity.
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I think sometimes — and again, this is just me pontificating without fact, my take as being a media observer, and I don't know the Apple people well — is they get taken in by svengali sometime.
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There's even a slightly hilarious gag after Escobar has been captured, where Murphy is pontificating about how Escobar was just a man after all — but gets cut off by somebody shooting Escobar in the head.
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It's almost as if there are some kinds of work that degrade human dignity, rather than provide it; work that the puffed-up pontificating classes are fortunate enough to never even witness, much less try.
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If you can maintain your position in the face of that, then we can take you seriously — not while you're pontificating from the White House before Americans have really started to die in large numbers.
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This was an evening that could have felt very pedantic — an Italian playwright and an English production on Britain's national stage, at a moment when the world is pontificating and theorizing about what ails America.
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If we—or our friends or the pundits on CNN—spent less time pontificating and more trying to work through the implications of policy proposals, we'd realize how clueless we are and moderate our views.
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After she's dismissed once again, Lee spends the rest of the party downing free booze and eye-rolling a particularly mansplain-y Tom Clancy (Kevin Carolan), who's pontificating about his process to a group of writers.
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But late last night, he seems to have deleted all his tweets (or maybe archived them, as his firm Andreessen Horowitz sometimes does), and said he was taking a vacay from pontificating in 140-character bites.
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Rather than provide my own pontificating, here's a sampling of their views: El-Erian used a "'T' junction" as a metaphor of potential outcomes: one a hard landing from Fed policy and other a soft landing.
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But the small city is taking a big bet to try to fix its lagging economy with a strategy that many of the tech elite have been largely only pontificating about: universal basic income, or cash handouts.
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No one completely understands what Lynch is doing in his work, which allows anyone the opportunity to get laid at a bar in Brooklyn pontificating on the significance of Frank Booth's gas mask, or the severed ear.
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If there's one trademark image from Letterkenny, it's of the main character, Wayne (played by series creator Jared Keeso), standing stiffly in the center of the frame, pontificating in a deadpan rural accent on some common life experience.
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Truth be told, Sagittarius is not the best flirt, since they can get carried away with their enthusiasm for pontificating on a vast subject when a one-liner would have been better in the heat of the moment.
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Dr. Ned Sharpless was not having a Samantha Bee moment; rather, the director of the National Cancer Institute was pontificating on when it makes sense to use that elusive, aspirational word when it comes to cancer treatment: cure.
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Mr. de Blasio may be the only liberal politician in the country who holds photo ops with the ostensible goals of punctuating his contempt for the press and reinforcing the perception that he is both pontificating and defensive.
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For all of Iron Fist's cab-hopping outside of Gramercy Park or Daredevil's pontificating about Hell's Kitchen, it's story touches like Luke Cage essentially becoming an NYC-specific meme that makes the setting of the Netflix MCU come alive.
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PICKER: IN TERMS OF JUST THE CONTOURS OF THE MARKET RIGHT NOW, WE'VE SEEN FOR A WHILE RISING VALUATIONS IN THE STOCK MARKET, LOW VOLATILITY, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PONTIFICATING ON WHEN EXACTLY THAT'S GOING TO TURN.
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The group, which apes the pontificating style of televangelists, has invited people of all ethnicities to a midday meal at Trump's eponymous tower in hopes that people of all backgrounds can break bread together as a representation of unity.
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Speaking to crowds amid a sprawling primary campaign is high-pressure and risky when you don't know exactly what you're going to say next; it's a relatively comfortable exercise when you're giving paid speeches or pontificating from emerituslike perches in academia.
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"It feels like a lot of people, at least in my scene, are making techno for pontificating in all black in Berlin, whereas I'm attempting to make techno for throwing a burning axe into a haunted castle or something," he said.
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Mr. Cucchiara produced a box of neatly filed papers containing correspondence from the 1850s by President Millard Fillmore and the orator Edward Everett, perhaps best known for his 1863 feat of pontificating for hours at Gettysburg just before Lincoln's brief address.
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The most egregious of these — in which Tom drags Max to a sweaty nightclub in Harlem, pontificating on the spontaneous energies of jazz and boogieing with the working girls at the bar — adds a dash of racial condescension to the cocktail.
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She is every woman who must suppress a sigh when the blowhard in accounts management talks over her — only, in Clinton's case, that blowhard isn't just pointlessly pontificating about email blasts; he's a candidate for the most powerful position in the world.
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Up to that point in our conversation, the 57-year-old comic book mogul had been his characteristically loquacious self—he was shit-talking and pontificating so much that I had been having trouble squeezing in questions or even guiding the conversation.
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Her involvement in the podcast gave me a little hope that this new show wasn't just an ignorant white dude joking and pontificating about race from a place of privilege—but could actually make good on its promise of offering a constructive dialogue.
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I watched three hours of Starz's American Gods, punctuated by gorgeous visuals and philosophical pontificating from mysterious deities, before I realized I had no idea what the hell was going on — and that my confusion was almost definitely part of the show's plan all along.
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Agg spends as much time, however, pontificating on food critics and the internet as on the patriarchy, which sometimes left me wondering if the point was that she had a bone to pick with macho restaurant culture, or if she just likes to pick bones.
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It brought to mind a photograph that hung on the wall of a celebrated writer and editor I once worked for, in which he had been caught pontificating while his polite friend — the writer Janet Malcolm — feigned interest with a glazed, thousand-mile stare.
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Did you run for office so your days could be drearily spent on the phone drumming up campaign donations, pontificating to empty Senate chambers and defending a president whose corrupt, inept, venal and infantile behavior is a clear and present danger to the Republic?
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It might be hard work and less glamorous than pontificating about the state of the nation or the malfeasances of the current administration — they may actually have to read something — but it was what they were elected to do, what we pay them to do.
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The sight of Mr Gavrilov pontificating in Russian from the parliamentary speaker's chair was more than many Georgians could bear, seeing that Russia occupies a fifth of the country's land and props up the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which it recognises as sovereign states.
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He wasn't always featured in the box—sometimes he would be a pharaoh receiving fanning from slave girls, or some other poetic historical reference—but he would always be pontificating about the minutiae of life, and how it always relates back, one way or another, to prison.
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That's what the people at Sony were debating, and I realized this is a great ... And you write a book like this, it can't just be me pontificating, or it could, but I don't think that's such a good book, but you want to have characters.
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It's a lot more entertaining to watch Javier Baez turn a slick double play than to hear endless pontificating about respect for the game, about the way the game and its players used to be, and complaints about how much the game has supposedly been degraded.
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Old Fashioneds taste good, I guess, but get fucking real dude, there's a time and a place and pontificating over the rye choice in your drink while subsequently discussing your collection of dusty forays into the annals of Stitzel-Wellers' back catalogue is a real boner-shrinker.
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You shouldn't be trying to time what your savings rate is based on what the Wall Street Journal says in the headlines, or what HuffPo's economy section says about economic data, or what some guy pontificating in an interview in VICE has to say about the economy.
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There are a few reasons for this — which Todd and I discussed a bit last week, in the aftermath of Elliot's long-overdue prison reveal — but I think a big part of the cooling off is due to the fact that Mr. Robot's pontificating is incredibly repetitive.
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Veteran Republican operatives — even those who praise the RNC — are pontificating about whether the money arrives too late and hires are delayed to the point where the campaign could only afford to have a half-dozen aides in a state, in addition to the RNC-funded field staff.
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If the show starts casually resurrecting humans via host technology, I hope she's on the bring-back list, because I never stopped enjoying her brusque practicality and cut-the-crap attitude, which cuts through so much of Westworld's pontificating and mystery in favor of a straightforward survival instinct.
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Aside from all the people on your Facebook feed pontificating about Cowspiracy changing their life, there was the announcement last year that steak could impact brain health and that even the organic beef you've been buying to assuage your guilty, burger-loving conscience may not meet animal welfare standards.
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In a series of oddly professional Instagram videos suggesting a perhaps dangerous concentration of staff members in her home, she can be seen undergoing a bizarre healing procedure at her personal health clinic and bending over a typewriter in a kimono, pontificating about the social effects of the virus.
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In a series of oddly professional Instagram videos suggesting a perhaps dangerous concentration of staff members in her home, she can be seen undergoing a bizarre healing procedure at her personal health clinic and bending over a typewriter in a kimono, pontificating about the social effects of the virus.
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The production, staged smartly in a subterranean theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center that already had the look of a concrete correctional facility, deftly navigated the tricky art of adaptation with new English-language dialogue (alongside Beethoven's arias in the original German) that felt urgent and powerful without pontificating.
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As these pontificating, grandstanding politicians stand in the well of the House ranting and raving impeachment of the president, or cable network talking heads spewing forth the same diatribe, these people seem to be of the opinion impeachment is the first and final stage of removing a president from office.
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We did that from the beginning and I want them to really do that a lot, but they can't be just a pontificating person who just has an opinion about something, they've gotta go in there and find out and talk to everybody and then give people a chance to respond too.
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These diametric motifs are hangings in Damon Lindelof land, a universe filled in with the lush, pontificating moral core of Lost, and the surreal, didactic journey of The Leftovers, which, in this penultimate episode, hones in on a thesis that binds the shows into one thorny beating heart: that to love someone is to suffer.
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As I chew my last bites of fish filet (gotta say, that bun is delightfully pillowy), I get some exercise (by pontificating, obvs): Sure, I've been put up to this, but my five days of Trump have served as an excuse for skipping the gym, my reason for being snippy, my justification for availing myself of irresponsibly raised meat.
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It was typical Ghosn sensei, a prediction from the heroic master of commerce, adopted by Japan and placed on a pedestal of renown: the trim little guy with the permanently furrowed brow, the dramatic eyebrows, surrounded by his lieutenants, wearing a neatly tailored suit but ditching the usual necktie (Southern California, after all), pontificating while the cameras clicked and the reporters scribbled.
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A surprise visit to Sweden (which represents U.S. interests in Pyongyang) by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho in what appears initial planning for a Trump-Kim summit is revving up the idle speculation that has become a favorite pastime of the chattering classes in both Washington and Seoul, pontificating on do's and don'ts and will they/won't they.
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Kennedy preferred to rule the country like an oracle, agonizing behind the scenes but showing neither humility nor rigor in his ultimate decisions — overruling state and federal law more frequently than any justice to his right or left, pontificating in sweeping and self-righteous and faux-poetic prose, seeking to establish the court as the decisive and unifying authority for a sprawling and divided country.
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So we might as well try and figure out how to make some sort of peace with it, by questioning or exploring or pushing it—or, idk, chucking it on a massive stage at the O2 complete with a travelator and graphics that look like that meme of the confused blonde lady trying to figure shit out, instead of just constantly pontificating about whether it's the best or worst thing to happen to modern civilisation since the advent of capitalism.
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