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Example sentences for: ruminations
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His head is filled with biblical and liturgical ruminations, Nietzschean doubt, American optimism, and a loud wail of self-diverting lust--all of which is expressed internally in a jumble of Yiddish and Polish and English and Hebrew.
She comes off sounding like President Bush, whose ruminations on "the vision thing" convinced everyone that he recognized the importance of having a vision but didn't quite know what the word meant.
Even when the Big Guy himself is not explicitly mentioned--and he's mentioned plenty--the current crop of tabloid offerings brims with so many transcendent crises (life-threatening illnesses, brushes with sudden death, ruminations on mortality, profligate lives steered straight and narrow) that it feels like one long episode of Touched by an Angel .
As for your ruminations on the effects of competitive jealousy on news judgment, I'd have to agree that there's something out of whack if a story like the Paducah, Kentucky, bomb factory goes so wildly under-reported in other papers, just because the Post broke it.
But Whale's plangent ruminations are slack as well: "I've spent much of my life outrunning the past, and now it floods all over," he tells Boone, in what is surely the most generic line for a "memory play" ever written.