| Simon's smug pontifications and his seeming lack of concern sicken her. |
| His authority in talking to the rich would be considerably greater than his pontifications on a society he knows little of. |
| Pieces and pontifications by Norman Mailer People have forgotten how daring and how charming Mailer was, but not how offensive. |
| Taking an aristocrat's pompous and often unrealistic pontifications as an ideal for living is clearly not a good thing. |
| Sociological accounts of the Indian village community also contradict Marxist pontifications on the subject. |
| The characters live less in the future than in a half-world constructed of tired symbols, cardboard jokes, and dull pontifications. |
