Word: ponderous
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More importantly, Chopra says, Gusmorino has left such a positive legacy in the area of student services that Lee has the luxury to ponder more broadly the council’s place in the University...
...something most people are anxious to ponder in public, partly because no one wants to sound insensitive, but also because there's a weird sense of survivors' guilt among those of us who didn't lose anyone on that horrible day. We can't imagine the agony of the bereaved, the logic goes, and so we shouldn't argue with the compensation...
Luckily for Harvard jocks and Harvard geeks alike, we were all chosen for a variety of reasons, not just grades, test scores or whatever—McGrath Lewis calls them “distinguishing excellences.” It may, in fact, be useful to ponder why we might have been chosen and what we can do to validate that choice...
...House; January 22), both giving the book a starred review. Says Kirkus: "The ghastly story of lynching, by the coauthor of 'We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi'...This is history most fundamental, the kind that forces us to ponder the very nature of humanity." PW agrees: "Prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans...Dray balances moral indignation with a sound understanding of history and politics. The result is vital, hard-hitting cultural history...
...function of occasionally delivering commentary, he doesn’t seem to fit in the show. It is also noteworthy, then, that he is the only character that the show’s authors conjured without relying on the source material. Their achievement with this creation leaves one to ponder how successful they might have been if, freed from Butterfly, they had pursued the character of the Engineer or worked to devise other new characters. Such reflections, though tantalizing, do nothing to alter or elevate the present work that is on exhibition at North Shore Music Theatre...