pontificator

No pontificator he, but look at how his diplomacy is unfolding.

"There is no such thing," my friend the Gustatory Pontificator said.

Julia wondered if the staff thought of her and Viktor as pontificator has-beens.

Her restraint has made her a teacher's writer rather than a pontificator or a prescriber.

The pontificator's irritation at being interrupted in his digressions.

Everybody was waiting for this consummate pontificator to get to the issue of whether he was going to attempt the vice-presidency in 1976.

But Mr. Specter is known less as a listener than as a legal pontificator.

Some veteran advocates see Mills as an ivory-tower pontificator whose views are dangerous, capable of inspiring a backlash.

The pontificator was a slender, white-haired old man of medium height, standing very erect in what looked like a white canvas jacket and trousers.

Mr. Waters plays with a rounded, swanky tone and is less a ruminator than a pontificator, hopping between embellishments.

Two weeks ago, Deion Sanders, the Baltimore cornerback and habitual pontificator, said he believed the Giants had given up.

The New York Republican chairman, William E. Powers, issued a statement saying "the Albany pontificator finally has been buried on the national scene."

Surely no holier-than-thou Hollywood pontificator could be harder to take than the sanctimonious Bill Frist, who, unlike Barbra Streisand, can't even sing.

By infusing the man with a sense of passionate mission, Willie C. Carpenter as Robeson fortunately does not come off as the pontificator Rickey says he is.

Mr. Eitzel is among rock's most excruciatingly open songwriters, and if it weren't for his funny, self-deprecating patter between songs, he'd be almost unbearable, some weird sort of artless emotional pontificator.

Answer: When I tum meoptics, from suchurban prospects, 'tis my filial's bosom, doth behold with pride, that pontificator, and circumvallator, with his dam night garrulous, slipt by his side.

JOHN C. BOGLE'S critics like to call him a St. Paul (though he prefers St. Jack) who preaches his vision of the true path, a pontificator with the zeal of the righteous.

Like Krajicek, Medvedev enjoys spewing aces; unlike Krajicek, who has buttoned his lip ever since being castigated for making sexist remarks about his female peers last year at Wimbledon, the newly 19-year-old Medvedev is a born pontificator.