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Nietzsche demands instead an historical philosophising, that is, a thinking of becoming.

For the present, what is needed most is more cooperative work, and less competitive philosophising.

There would have been no speculation, no philosophising.

Philosophising, means and laws of.

No philosophising.'

William, a rapturous believer, is at best an eccentric given to relentless philosophising - an ostensibly benign cross-examiner of others.

Her silent philosophising ended with a yelp of indignation as she found her forefinger nipped between strong white teeth.

'Proper' philosophising is about teasing-out the complexity of existence, the Right seeks always to simplify this complexity into sloganising and cant.

Polylog is a journal for intercultural philosophising, published in Vienna, Austria since 1998 and offers articles mostly in the German language.

It is thought that he did a lot of his philosophising in this tower, and from this suggestion it has become known as the Philosopher's Tower.

He took all such events in his stride with a grunt and a fatalistic shrug, and dismissed any speculation along these lines as vain and useless philosophising.

Set beside the works of Marquez et al, those of Angus Wilson must have looked distinctly unexotic, weighed down with sociological observation and liberal-humanist philosophising.

Perhaps it is only in some of the lyrics, which exhibit a kind of simple, home-spun philosophising strangely absent from an Erasure album, that Africa remains untainted.

For this stage of the journey, I had hired Mufty, a driver given to mountain philosophising of profound irrelevance, whom I had used on many occasions.

Considered in sum, they're the pinnacle of Chekhovian comedy-drama in American movies, glinting with funny-serious moral insights, painful home truths and unpretentious philosophising.

This was not a successful enterprise for Sautet, however it did lead him to setting up informal philosophising for the ordinary citizen in Parisian cafes starting in 1992.

When a troll gets old and starts to think seriously about the universe it normally finds a quiet spot and gets down to some hard philosophising, and after a while starts to forget about its extremities.

The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach, however, and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously.

But by the same token I like a fair amount of modern American black music simply because it sounds good, even though I seldom take any notice of the lyrics, which are nearly always about get up and party or, worse, shallow philosophising.

Direct, disarming and with the air of the erstwhile hippie (her enthusiasms include the 'New Age' philosophising of Shirley Maclaine), she's as casual as her roles are grand, as funny as her heroines are tragic.

As time went on, he became strongly conservative and opposed to the new drama of Ibsen and Shaw, arguing that domestic intrigue, sexual situations and wordy philosophising were inappropriate for an evening at the theatre, and even harmful to society, especially young women.

Camp jargon, popular sayings, slang and coarse vernacular lent authenticity to the peasant-prisoner's voice; while the narrative was masterfully couched in short, spare, staccato sentences, mirroring the one-track minds of prisoners, whose endless struggle to survive left them no time for leisurely philosophising or dreams.

But meditation and philosophizing were not for me at this time.

And an old man's philosophizing can hardly appeal just now, if ever.

I was beginning to grow a little impatient with all this philosophizing.

But isn't this perhaps, for all your philosophizing, precisely where the answer lies?

And all this philosophizing wasn't getting him any closer to going through that castle door.

"Please, don't subject me to any more of your naive philosophizing!"

She listened to his earnest philosophizing and did no more than that.

There came, early on, the philosophizing of it all.

This kind of philosophizing didn't fit in with his carefree image.

But this sort of philosophizing doesn't work too well in cinema, above all for actresses.

Adult philosophizing would be a form of arrested development.

Let's stop the fancy philosophizing and get down to it.'

Don't worry, it's quite short and is free of ponderous cultural philosophizing.

And as you might expect, he has been enjoying Touchstone's "philosophizing."

Do you think that philosophizing helped or hindered the climber?

Goodkind's philosophizing tends to work better in his books than elsewhere.

But the most important pillar holding up weight here is one made of oyster-related philosophizing.

Peter nodded slowly, but Josiah was impatient with this philosophizing.

A Syrian man then phoned, wondering if they could drop the philosophizing and just cook.

One is a love for the dreamy philosophizing he practices at the masthead.

As a result, the best philosophical idea directly equals the one producing the most subsequent philosophizing.

They like the fabric research, the philosophizing, but don't have a real physical connection to the women they dress.

"I am pleased to hear that you have interests other than your life-death philosophizing.

Then you are not tempted to join them in their heady philosophizing, to become a Daughter yourself?"