As to the morality of the issue, there has been much thoughtless pontificating.

However, without some successful means of reversing this population growth I can't understand what is to be achieved by pontificating about it.

Please bear in mind that while all this pontificating is going on, some of us are struggling to make a living as painters.

But of course your pontificating is nothing more than pseudo-intellectual farting.

I only met her four or five times, and here I am pontificating.'

He is in the middle of some porcuswine-wash pontificating."

Lest you think my pontificating is aimed only at others, let me acknowledge this: I'm an offender, too.

I enjoyed his pontificating and was able to flatter him into sharing some of his technical progress.

He has this dread- ful habit of pontificating at great length about things others don't care about.

In many quarters, carefully crafted wit has given way to coarse pontificating, genteel discretion to public confession.

No diabetic sweetness, no pretentious pontificating, no foolish fantasy out here.

As soon as Fitz reached the open box, the First Governor turned back to the crowd and resumed his pontificating.

But these and other zippy one-liners pop up like stray flowers amid swampy expanses of earnest psychological pontificating.

By the end of the evening there are several couplings and near couplings, and for all their pontificating, all four come across as indiscriminate.

The lady had a fine set of pegs on her- infinitely more worthy of his attention than Bill Glendenning's pointless pontificating.

I've only been here for one day this time, which is a bit sparse for big-time pontificating, but I think I can safely say that things have changed.

Unfortunately, such passages are buried beneath mounds of defensive pontificating, lugubrious recyclings of old sci-fi scenarios and gratuitous tributes to himself and other writers.

And let us not excuse our own age by resorting to the old chestnut that Victorian society was hypocritical and the endless moralizing and pontificating of its reformers was insincere, providing a camouflage for the deep evil of their intentions.

To the Editor: As a Navy veteran of the Korean War era, for years I suffered in silent anger at the pontificating of Hawkeye Pierce, so much so that I got to dislike Alan Alda.

Wouldn't it be better, Ms. Millar, if instead of pontificating in the Guardian and just writing about 'education' you spent your time actually doing something to help at least some children, rather than mindlessly defending a system which systematically fails vast numbers of children?

"Introduction," in Marvin H. Pope, Probative Pontificating in Ugaritic and Biblical Studies: Collected Essays (edited by Mark S. Smith; Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur series, volume 10; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1994) 1-13.

Because Ms. Smiley fails to make Marcus's charm palpable to the reader, because she keeps dropping portentous hints about the riskiness of his development schemes, it's hard to listen to his long-winded pontificating, and harder still to understand why Joe is so smitten by his ideas.

Good point - the Pope is pontificating about things he has no experience of.

As the men listened to him pontificating on the best way to bring up children he felt all powerful.

Or in the course of pontificating, have you conflated the two?

I think I'll give pontificating a mix on this thread.

"I need not pontificate on what he means to the franchise.

And we have the hypocrisy to pontificate on the world stage about democracy.

Just pontificates a bit and wanders back to his ship.

"Would I love to be able to pontificate again."

She pontificated a great deal now, particularly about politics.

But first, we had to listen to them pontificate.

"I saw you pontificating the other night somewhere on some channel.

But I am sure that this is not what fibmac70 was pontificating about.

I doubt whether any of those pontificating here did.

Rather than pontificating on the state of religion, both tried to engage in a conversation with the modern world.

The measure died in committee, leaving lawmakers free to pontificate without consequence.

He has found a good life, and it is better to pontificate at a distance than to try to manage or to run."

He braced himself to tolerate further pontificating from the social worker.

In the 1970's, you could still get away with pontificating about good and evil.

"I give him five minutes and he'll be pontificating.

You find it easy to sit back and pontificate against a system that you have never needed help from.

That should have been: Numbered group in endless confusion, we pontificate.

I also agree with you that watching my political leaders go around the world pontificating to countries can be quite sickening.

We need a new dialogue, one that addresses the problem's roots rather than pontificating on its effects.

Because the budget deficit is so huge, she continued, council members no longer have the luxury to simply pontificate.

I've always been amazed at the people who felt free to analyze, criticize, and pontificate about it.

Between 1846 and 1903, the Church experienced its two longest pontificates in history up to that point.

This was due to the long pontificates which immediately preceded such conclaves.

Yet it is striking how similar the overall score is for both pontificates.

Catholics often cringe when the local bishop or cardinal pontificates on social policy issues.

It was given at Rome, June 13, 1940, in the second year of his Pontificate.

During recent pontificates, issues such as the implications of genetics and anthropological climate change have been important areas of focus.

She was the first Philippine Marian image crowned during his Pontificate.

One teaches, the other pontificates.

During earlier pontificates, Altieri held many important offices and had been entrusted with several delicate missions.

Although there have been 115 pontificates since 1461, there have only been 84 individual Patriarchs.

Groups sometimes form around antipopes, who claim the Pontificate without being canonically and properly elected to it.

The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth.

The Pontificate of Pius IX began in 1846.

Pope Benedict IX was elected pope three times, therefore the number of pontificates is actually 266.

I can visualise 25th December in the Pontificate and Phudd households.

The Pope subsequently asked Levine to conduct the concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of his Pontificate.

Octavian unilaterally expelled Lepidus from the Triumvirate, but allowed him to retain his Pontificate.

At the beginning of John Paul II's Pontificate, no relations were established with the Israeli government.

"Roman Triptych" is the only poem John Paul II wrote during his long Pontificate.

The events occurred during the Pontificate of Pope Clement VIII.

American Poetry Under the Pontificate of Helen Vendler.

The Pontificate of Nicholas saw the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

It was given at Rome, at St. Peter's on July 19th 1950, the twelfth day of his Pontificate.

Rita was beatified under the Pontificate of Pope Urban VIII in 1626.

The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth appeared in 1805, and was a natural sequel to his previous work of history.