pontification

Clinton, always given to pontification, took himself far more seriously.

He recalled the old man's pontifications on the Sandler case.

The usual catalog of critical pontifications was made to seem small and beside the point.

There are newsletters with long pontifications on pressing national issues.

We have relied on private surveys, political pontifications and guessing.

A moment of true pontification seemed upon us.

"Sorry for the pontification," he added, "but you must understand.

Some were put off by the work's pontifications.

She seems to have worked that one out for herself and doesn't need someone else's pontification about the purity of the motives behind the pen.

Ms. Vreeland was a close friend and taught him the effectiveness of pontification.

Doctors treated heart patients by drawing on experience in their own practices and following the pontifications of leading cardiologists.

Cross-country journeys have always been curiously powerful inducements to pontification.

They're heavy on gory battle scenes and windy pontification.

This would serve as a means of pulling the student back from the confusion of intellectual pontification, and into a direct experience.

Too late, in many cases, newspaper editors are discovering that it is as important to have fine food columns as political pontification.

For all the pontification about teen-age pregnancy as a symptom, a disease, a crime, a burden on the system, programs like this one are rare.

The writer ends up "explaining" the artist in the third person, and although the insights may be valid, even piercing, they sound like pontification.

If such a letter ever saw print, picture the torrents of reader protests, peer criticism and media pontification.

There follows a torrent of sound bites, obscenities, pontifications and reminiscences.

History is bound to treat this event with great pontification, showing how the struggle between the two white tribes of Africa reached its climax.

Provalov knew how to spot pontification half a block away, and the one approaching had flashing red lights on the roof.

It can meet annually for pontification, but the post-colonial nations of the so-called third world will not take it seriously.

Their jury room pontifications do not necessarily mesmerize blue-collar New Yorkers.

But will be not pontification?