Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fond of isms as they are of pate and Beaujolais, have been served up a succulent new buzz word by a conservative American President. In government offices and lycee classrooms, Reaganisme has become the touchstone of current discourse. Politicians, especially in the conservative opposition, measure themselves against it. Pundits ponder to what extent it might, or might not, be exportable to France...
Nevertheless, the play provides some sobering thoughts about the era of Big Brother, and if nothing else, offers a brief opportunity to ponder the meaning of existence and mortality...
...gliding camera announces its presence quietly but surely, like a cat on a carpet. His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis-a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale sleaze-so what else...
...before the editors of Time, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review wax too eloquent about the significance of Canada's recent election they should ponder this: the September 4th result was undoubtedly the Conservative Party's greatest electoral victory. It may also turn out to be Canadian conservatism's greatest single defeat...
...case provides a fine example. After two weeks of sometimes embarrassing, and more often confusing, haggling between Ferraro and the press, the Vice Presidential candidate finally put the issue to rest at a 90-minute press conference. More important, the conference had the effect of leaving the public to ponder whether suspicions of corruption had been aroused primarily by a sleaze-mongering press...