I pondered seeing his disappointed face again ... in Gym. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dunstan paused in front of a stall covered with tiny crystal ornaments; he examined the miniature animals, pondering getting one for Daisy Hempstock. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a story that grew in the telling in one of those little towns where there’s always time to ponder all the different kinds of truth. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I don’t know if Tats is silent because she’s pondering it, but she does stop the monologue to stare intensely at me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But by that fall of 1776 I didn’t have much time for pondering over Sam or Mr. Heron. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I just lie there, staring out my window at the winter sky, pondering how on earth this will all turn out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he pondered this, he heard footsteps in the hall, followed by a timid knock at the half-open door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad that he was militant, but I was frightened when I pondered upon what he could do with his militancy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I done pondered over this thing a many a time,’ said Grandpapa. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His front hooves raised a few inches off the dirt, as if he’d pondered rearing but thought better of it, then he dropped his head and his paws stilled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He could only sit and stare out the window into the rain and blackness, pondering words like Flare and sickness and experiment and Scorch and WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In such episodes as these, I began to ponder the mystery of who I was, and what that might mean. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Still, it was enough to keep everyone in a seat as they pondered what Vogel told them. "... and then mission would conclude with Earth intercept two hundred and eleven days later," he finished up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been pondering. Sweet, think back. Did Lucinda give you a new gift when she made you happy about being obedient?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Mr. Helmuth was pondering “this unmerciful enemy” as he made his way through the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She looked up, as if pondering the question. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Still, I can’t help pondering how my dad never—with a capital NEVER—goes out. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to word them so that a passerby would stop and ponder over the meaning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

From Frodo’s mind the bright morning — treacherously bright, he thought — had not banished the fear of pursuit; and he pondered the words of Gildor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Adela, flattered, began to ponder on the truth of the statement. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It took Barksdale only a second to ponder that before shooting back with the right answer: “The day Netscape went public!” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet another torch went out as she stood pondering, and the sounds grew faintly louder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pondered the blanket and carefully set down a blade of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was hard to say what she ever thought of Our Father’s benedictions, in church or out, so I pondered more interesting mysteries, such as her eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am pondering these things when the medic with the freckles and red hair who has been working on me answers my question. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the train began to back up, Tom Bolles, wearing his battered lucky fedora, had much to ponder. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And it was he who had photographed the corpses, those death-scene images Alvin Dewey had continuously pondered while the murders were still unsolved. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By golly, they are; and so are potatoes, sort of. Fish?” pondered Matt, “I suppose there are lots of fish around here.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years he had pondered what he might have done to make things better between them later, when the trouble had started. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But my solitude gave me a certain liberty, and I resolved to use it to do something I had been pondering for a long while: begin discussions with the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered continuously ways of making money, and the only ways that I could think of involved transgressions of the law. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were still things that needed pondering. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He must have been pondering what to do with me when he felt the damp on his trousers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those weeks I had plenty of time to ponder my fate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Tree-ear pondered long and hard how to thank Min’s wife. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I waited anxiously, signaling to my sisters to be quiet as she pondered. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Joe pondered the card for a moment, then walked to his locker and put it in his wallet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nibbling and pondering, he moved slowly over the open meadow in the evening sun. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, I sat staring into the looking glass as I had seen Mr. Shakespeare do, pondering my dilemma. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen sixty-eight. I was pondering an idea for a game at the old public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Pocock pondered this effect and its consequences and gradually came to a startling realization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She tapped her forefinger on the table as she pondered, her rings flashing in the light. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could trace the route, ponder the findings, suggest new destinations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how much it would hurt my throat, but loved the way it made me feel a minute later as I sat on the toilet, pondering the tiled floor. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Again the two friends sat to ponder the mystery. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Didn’t help to ponder things that were forever gone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in silence. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of conversation in which I established most easily my moral superiority over this degenerate, I found myself pondering once more the crises of our times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Polly pondered this a moment, trying to find any opportunity to move from the kitchen to the house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was another piece of the puzzle, but Lazlo didn’t want to ponder it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At first I pondered it myself, and then I asked my parents. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I pondered his question, which was edged with double meaning. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But instead of finding sad and mournful people pondering all the ways that others annihilate themselves, Petey found the Rude boys lurking around the front of the cafe. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

While the other gods feasted, Odin pondered on what Thought and Memory taught him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biddy look shamed and started pondering her toes again. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

While I pondered the problem and tried to figure out a solution, I came across a letter in the church’s archives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She almost sounded like she was pondering his worth, not his dad’s. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All that had happened since Bilbo left the Shire was passing through his mind, and he recalled and pondered everything that he could remember of Gandalf’s words. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I will allow you to ponder my vast cleverness while I sleep. Wake me when you need anything else figured out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But what I wanted to do was ponder what all Grandpa had just said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Catelyn put her heels to her horse and rode off, leaving her son to ponder her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That left only one question to ponder: Would he be stopped at the crossing into Hungary and turned over to the U.S. authorities? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While Art stood there, pondering this, Abel Martinson dragged the hatch cover from the hold and called for him to come over. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Met Lab scientists therefore had the time and leisure to ponder the greater implications of nuclear weaponry and its control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He ponders his coffee and resolves the issue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When at last Lola spoke her tone was reflective, as though she were pondering subtle currents of counterarguments. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stood still, pondering, one foot on the board and one on the ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Never mind the trick. What the hell’s the point ?” Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Had he been pondering the question of how to accelerate particles for a long time, or did the concept that was to guide his life’s work occur to him on the spot? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It is no doubt the quiet of these surroundings that has enabled me to ponder all the more thoroughly these thoughts which have entered my mind over this past half- hour or so. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Bless me, ’ exclaimed the gentleman, not accustomed to apprentices who settled matters while their masters pondered. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frowning, biting the pencil, he pondered the results of his arithmetic—sales were dropping at an alarming rate. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea seemed so astonishing to him that he pondered it silently for a minute or two. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very great difference, and she pondered it every time she left the palace. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Why are you staring at ash and at sticks and scraps of wood when we could be chasing Loki? Kvasir! As you ponder and talk your nonsense he is getting away from us!” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Good,” he said, nodding and pondering something that made him smile longer than usual. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we pondered this question, the man who had brought us to the kitchen returned, bringing with him another group of boys, over twenty of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He pondered rolling a chalk boulder down from the hills above her, dropping it onto her little house; but he could not be certain that he would hit her with it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The coach stared at him now, the dark eyes probing, pondering. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She awoke once in the night and pondered on what she had once been and what she seemed to have become. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Celia ponders the lump on her son’s neck and the curious scar on his back, a pulpy line just below his left shoulder blade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the check written but not yet signed, he swiveled back in his desk chair and seemed to ponder. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I ponder this, Asher taps the option that says Training Grounds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel pondered what the Cyclops had said: Orange and purple ones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He’d slept in a chair that first night, and Fujiko had stayed awake pondering ways to extricate herself from this situation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He has been pondering this ever since the review was placed on his desk, neatly clipped and labeled by his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’m pondering this question as I sweep the Doctorita’s waiting room, near the front door, where dirt from patients’ shoes always builds up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby thought and played, pondered and moved, all the while becoming drenched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ponder that for a moment, and while I do, I realize we’re not taking our usual path to Madoc’s grounds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He agonizes, and ponders, and talks to himself until he’s stabbed by a poisoned blade, and all his tormented self-analysis gives way to eternal silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Afterward he pondered about this white man a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We left the farmer to ponder his slain sheep and went back to town, plodding across wet hills in the slate-gray dusk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I need to be earnest about it, I need to ponder it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and then seemed to ponder me as if I were some sort of puzzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung was surprised, after he had pondered a while, for he saw truth in what she said. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I pondered that for about seven-tenths of a second before finally going downstairs to play drums until “dinner.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah takes over immediately, assessing the team, pondering our combined brain capabilities, assigning responsibilities—in general, doing what she does best: bossing around the rest of us. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“But a nice state park wouldn’t be bad either,” Grandma pondered. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered our discussion as I ate my snack. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ponder ignoring him but know that he will make my life immensely worse, so I turn and walk toward the rolled-down window. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then he looks at me for a moment, pondering. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pondered what I had said, then told his officers to pull back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is certainly something to ponder over in this man’s state. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now Gitano regarded him profoundly, as though he pondered. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there would be time for pondering the implications later. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He sat on a filthy stoop and pondered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the crow’s nest to ponder the obstacles and consequences to getting this particular boss key. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Well, she had no puppies to induce Amaroq to feed her, so she pondered again. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, even as he pondered the question, he ran into Old Chao, who raised an eyebrow at his shoes — or so Ralph was convinced. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no time now to ponder the poster any longer. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pondering my resistance, when suddenly the twins’ bedroom door flew open. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My own thoughts were at war within me as I pondered what Hamlet and I had done. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Jinny hadn’t thought about that before, and she was pondering it when Loo, beside her, began to bash his spoon against his metal plate for no apparent reason. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d had time to ponder their forthcoming trip, and he’d decided he would rather go alone or, better yet, invite some friend to go along with him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

After a while, the old woman fell silent, though she continued to sit near Omakayas, pondering what she should do next. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I curtsied and left the room, pondering how I could pass this news along to Curzon. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the services I would stare at her, wondering what it was like to be married to her, pondering over how passionate she was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Petey found herself pondering the ways in which she might annihilate other people and get away with it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He paused and put his hands before his mouth, as if pondering. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to ponder that too deeply, though, because Renee spoke again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Roy rode away on his bike, he pondered the possibility that Mullet Fingers was better off roaming the woods than living at home with a witch for a mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She headed over to Taryn’s closet, cursing their stupid pondering tradition, cursing that little word that slipped out of her mouth. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I waited as the clock first chimed eleven times, then twelve, watching the firelight and trying not to ponder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered this and decided she was right. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But what I kept pondering endlessly were the priest’s revelations about my mother. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would ponder each possibility, and then when I was about to move, I would call out, “Qhipu!”—which means “I strike!” — and then move the piece. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing here pondering the wild wasn’t going to get her clean. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a while she was silent, as if pondering what this might mean. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pipe from the ground slowly and pondered about his third son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After recording them in my journal I'd flip through these pages, reading them to myself, pondering each idea, and rejecting them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

While he was still pondering what to do, he received some shocking news. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ponder that very long, though, because then I noticed his body ... or bodies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He stared at the water, pondering what Pocock had imparted the day before, running the boatbuilder’s words over in his mind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These are questions that Helmuth has often pondered at night when he lies in bed. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had pondered the problem all day and half the night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I'm pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Haymitch and all of a sudden I think, It's because he's being kind. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They would do well to read this book and ponder the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an air attack with conventional weapons. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that day and far into the night I pondered the problem of boyhood,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, working over the clods in the fields, he would fall to pondering about her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pondered a while, then said, in a slow, deliberate voice, “No, teachers are okay. School is a different matter.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pondering a mine diagram with one hand held over his bad eye. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered, staring, trying to isolate the change. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meal was quiet, me pondering why anyone, even him, wouldn’t want friends, and him glaring, the lights of the highway reflecting in his glasses. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Was the answer such an ingrained, obvious part of the way we lived that no one stopped to ponder the question itself? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Because...” said Thor, creasing his brow and pondering so hard that distant thunder could be heard in the mountaintops. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I ordered another round of Elephant beers and we sat pondering our different thoughts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see,” he replied, then pursed his lips and looked down at his feet to ponder what Mom was getting at. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Odin brooded and he pondered and he thought. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I started the pondering mysteries thing?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s wife mused and paused a moment to ponder dubiously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

At this very moment, no doubt, she is pondering with regret decisions made in the far-off past that have now left her, deep in middle age, so alone and desolate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the more they pondered it, the more impossible it seemed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might be well for those who are calling for the reeducation of Germany to ponder this episode,” wrote the reporter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone seemed to be in a different world or seemed to be pondering something. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was so little time to ponder right and wrong, when I hardly even knew where I was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to ponder this one overnight,” she said, lost in thought. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pause for a beat or two, goo-filled hands held out, pondering the issues of trust that have arisen between her and me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ponder this for only a moment before realizing he’s right. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

What, I wonder, what would I be without a few brilliant spots of blood to ponder? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odd that she isn’t consistent about her own name, he pondered. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and pondered my next move. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a step like this should not be taken without due pondering.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

While I was pondering the matter and staring up at the window from which the can had been hurled, an old vagrant approached the wagon and pleaded for a frankfurter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I pondered it, Ma called me out of the blue, smelling trouble. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trailed behind the others as I pondered her strange behavior. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was pondering the implication of this pattern, a message began to flash on my display: GO! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Claire could hear her murmuring the names—white willow, nettle, meadowsweet, goldenseal—and knew she was pondering what combinations to create. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandpa licked some meringue off his fork while he pondered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was some cruel intelligence in its jaundiced eye that made me ponder this and made me grateful for the chain. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But he brought himself here, to this walk, in the open and the silence, to clear his head and ponder the question. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, she pondered over the situation at curtain. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael returned to his tea in the study, where he pondered his father’s books. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I took a deep breath and pondered the note. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many of Ernest’s friends and colleagues pondered that heritage after his death, but perhaps the oddest judgment came from Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

While Johnny was inside getting his eyes opened, Neeley and Francie pondered how a night cap could also be an eye opener. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what happened to it ” He pondered it a minute before I brought him back to the subject at hand. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pondered me a moment, then slithered down the beach and into the water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second time she came, Alice was stijl pondering over those wild women with their packets of lye, their honed razors, the keloids here, here and there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pondered this, as well as the oblong shape of her pond, which was caused by the flow of the ice as it moved with the wind. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

As I closed my eyes, I began to ponder the riddle of the Jade Key. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pondered for a while and suddenly a thought came to him and he smote the side of his head with his palm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of Wemmick’s suggestion, which it might be worth while to pursue. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If you are the sort of person who likes guessing games, you may wish to spend the next few moments pondering which of the preceding explanations seem to have merit and which don’t. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I took it and flipped through the pages, pondering the alien script. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The autumn passed in a dogweary haze for me, with much work and little time left to ponder or breathe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without taking his eyes off the girl—her back was turned now and he feasted himself on her rounded jeans —he pondered the meaning of what Howie had said, sensing the importance of the moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged told him, and when he was done Vetch sat pondering for a long while. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I suppose you could touch him and find out. Which raises an interesting point: How far are you willing to go in the name of science? This is something for you to ponder.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby pondered for a long while and, with no apparent winning chances left, reluctantly agreed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered when I saw it, wondering if he had lacked a vitamin or two and had sought them in the bark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read the whole thing in ten sittings in his booth at Day’s and began pondering the whale’s nature at an early juncture. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Paqo,” I said, poised to ask a question I had pondered for some time now, “where is Beyond? Is it past the stars?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In his time, Pompey passed these statues on the way to his betrayal; Caesar, pursuing his rival, gazed at these faces too, and probably pondered the quality of the monarchs they represented. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered the faint, red dot among the stars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly and pondered the question as I glanced out the front window at the few soldiers standing at attention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius pondered the proposal for some time, scrutinizing the scar on the old man’s nose and belching gassily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered his own reactions to those arguments. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And ever since the prospect of seeing Miss Kenton again first arose some weeks ago, I suppose I have tended to spend much time pondering just why it was our relationship underwent such a change. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo, too, pondered infinity and these infinitely small slices of area. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He pondered whether something very bad might happen to him here. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I did what I normally did when I was in the basement getting stoned, which was ponder all the stuff Fang and I used to do before we dedicated ourselves to drugs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He climbed on an outbound Desire bus and pondered the matter while the bus swung around and headed out on Bourbon Street, passing by the Night of Joy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room, thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered that a good while, as we walked side by side through the rain, under the dark branches of the Forest of Otherhord. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the ring in his fingers, pondering it, sending refracted light dancing around the room. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She circles Barrius as his skinny limbs begin to seize, pausing between each lash, no doubt pondering how she can make the next one more painful than the last. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m pondering this change of position when she takes hold of my hand again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They had all the time they wanted and they seemed to set back and ponder what they would do next now that Johnny was there too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to sulk and ponder your previous loss. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That was wrong, but Asha had no time to ponder it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no time to ponder the extremity and futility of our progress. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In silence he pondered what he should do, and a plan came to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the wrapper and pondered this until I could no longer keep my eyes open. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joyce pondered that for a moment, then said, “I just don’t understand why you don’t get angry.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Here was another dreadful choice, and he had no time to ponder it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He pondered in the darkness, incredulous that a supposedly revoked passport had turned him into a prisoner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They hummed loud so I need not ponder on the baby doll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was something to ponder, but for now, I was wasting the cool of the morning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But is it the truth? That is an excellent question for the future ruler of Regalia to ponder,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked away from Levy’s house, Wes pondered other reasons to be doubtful about Job Corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Looking wistfully at the poster, he pondered the damaged words: Do I dare disturb the universe? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a serious look, as if imparting a meaningful life lesson I should ponder and absorb. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she left him to ponder the pain and the possibility. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The electric animal, he pondered, could be considered a subform of the other, a kind of vastly inferior robot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stood across the street from the Bridewell Prison and pondered hard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless’s death at greater length, this consensus came to seem less and less plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children stood by the drapeweed for some time, pondering their discovery. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We put our heads together and pondered, down in the underworld of the great scientific institute. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she pondered how she was going to climb down from her precarious perch, she suddenly felt the rope around her waist slacken. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything, as I was still pondering my run-in with Sister Redempta. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was pondering whether or not they could sneak in somehow, when a woman in a blue-and-green Georgia Aquarium shirt came up to them, smiling brightly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I needed to sit on my bed and ponder what I'd seen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As I pondered this, the silhouette of the goddess began to change. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I spent more time alone pondering my life, reading my New World Encyclopedia, my dictionary, and my Bible. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If you’re asking me whether I ponder my death every day,” she said to the woman, as politely as she could, “the answer is no.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This gave him time to evaluate different people’s grass and bushes and cars, and to ponder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari pondered this for a moment while she nibbled at the bread to make it last longer. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did bother me a bit, but I had pondered this quite a lot in the weeks before I asked Baba to go khastegari. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stole looks at him as he pondered his cards. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had North Enders taken more time to ponder the fact that the tank was so obviously leaking, perhaps they would have shown more concern. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This was too big and too frightening to ponder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was, as you might imagine, a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We found him behind his church, pondering his little stack of tin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t asleep, Jeri. I was pondering, you know, pondering on the question of what make freedom.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt talked less and less, slept, hiked, and pondered. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she actually seems to be pondering the name as if it’s a possibility. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Losing my dad exacerbated my sense that there was no time to sit around and ponder how my life should go. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Why does she spend her time pondering something she’ll never be able to do? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

While pondering this new idea, I heard the front door open; Mr. Bates came out, and with him was a nurse. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Conant had been pondering for some time how to move Harvard into the forefront of experimental and theoretical physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mother stood in silence, pondering Grandma’s words for a long moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merlyn scratched his chin in the middle of the beard, with the hand which held the reins, and pondered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Éomer was silent, and looked on his sister, as if pondering anew all the days of their past life together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In truth, I ponder them daily, but once a year I allow them to be my sole sustenance. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All this Ged knew well, and more, for ever since he came to Low Torning he had held in mind and pondered over all he had ever learned of dragons. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin pondered that while chewing on the cookies Mom had sent him in my lunch bag. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered Horatio’s question in earnest, for this was a chance to talk of love like the noble ladies in Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The fog was dense enough to make him ponder running for Elliot Head before long; for all he knew he was setting his net in the Seattle-bound shipping lane. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But he was pondering such a sale anyway?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sat on a bench in the arcade beneath the windows and further pondered Elnora’s words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was 1895, a fortuitous moment when physicists were pondering a host of strange new physical forces manifested in their apparatuses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For instance, Ralph realized that if he had not called Grover, if he had not remembered the number, if no one had answered, he probably would not have landed up a pondering sort of person. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited many an afternoon to catch sight of the beautiful golden carp as it swam by, and while I waited in the sun I pondered over his legend. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The room quieted as we all pondered the number. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked vaguely troubled, as if he were pondering something deeply personal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

During the three months that it took to write and ponder the paragraph above, I often wondered what it would take to explain this process to someone who hadn’t lived it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Agonizing second followed agonizing second as the officer seemed to ponder what to do with me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As Matt drifted to sleep, he pondered why MacGregor would want a clone when he had a son. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am pondering these strange coincidences: that Marguerite’s abuser and the invader of Denmark are the same Fortinbras of Norway, and that she and I should discover each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Alvarez, meanwhile, pondered a similar physical limitation governing the acceleration of electrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Royal Odysseus pondered if he should hit him with all he had no and drop the man dead on the spot, or only spar, with force enough to knock him down. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I filled the interval in walking softly about my room, and pondering the visitation which had given my plans their present bent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Owl,” Feathers whispers to herself, her forehead creased in a confused ponder for an animal well never see again. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pondered Mr. Ludsbury’s exclusion from the plot of the fat old men as we watched his figure, reedy even in his winter wraps, move away from us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had finished, he leaned back in his chair and pondered what I had said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered awhile, searching my memory: then it came to me: the man who had called after Raja’s death. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know ...” Mother pondered the idea in silence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Bobby stared at Tal's palm and pondered the mysteries of its lines and crevices, a crowd gathered around and hundreds of others watched from their tables. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pondering going back to bed,” I say. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the small scaly creature on her knee and fed it bits and crumbs, while she pondered what Ged had told her. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius rolled down into the Quarter and, for a wild and very fleeting moment, pondered an affair. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko was left alone to ponder the object lying on the linoleum tile—toothy, scaly, and lifelike, except for the $3.95 price sticker glued to its snout. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she didn’t develop a fear of flying, a more profound uneasiness seized her, and she began to ponder the direction of her life and work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Three lives you shall have of me. No more, no less. Three and we are done. So a girl must ponder." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words—her faith—her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pondered for a moment, and then could not hide her curiosity. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He slid the balls up the brass rods, pondered swiftly, clicked them all back into place and announced “dirty-nine cent.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran back home, pondering who this “king” was. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Extraordinary," said the King, and he put his chin on his hand and stared at the Red Cow, pondering on what was the best thing to do. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his chin, like he was pondering an ancient proverb. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After pondering a minute, Grandpa had agreed to give her the furniture with the house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I could not ponder the fate of the rest of the men. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretending indifference to Obie’s report but his thoughts racing, pondering the possibilities. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pondered this and concluded that they shouldn’t have skipped over me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I decide to ponder this seriously while making some waffles for breakfast. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I took the CD home and listened to it over and over for the next week, pondering what Kim said. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered this for a moment, and then said, “Mandela, as you know, I am not a politician. I cannot discuss such issues myself, for they are beyond my authority.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said his bout with TB had set him to pondering about mortality and the nature of the cosmos. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pondering this when Austin texts me to say he ended up having a great day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I pondered this paradox as I lay at night upon my narrow, solitary bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I know now that I can never really understand how much I hurt them or how bewildered they must’ve been when I left, pondering what they’d done to deserve what they see as a betrayal. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Promising to report the next morning at six o’clock, I walked home and pondered on what could possibly have been in the woman’s mind to have made her ask me point-blank if I stole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a year I fast and ponder the commandments. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In pondering how this disaster could have occurred, it is imperative to remember that lucid thought is all but impossible at 29,000 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Blore sat on his bed, his brow furrowed, his little eyes creased and puckered while he pondered the, problem of the revolver.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

As for the other jewels, he pondered this way and that, and at last he decided he would go to the great house and see if there were more land to buy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing that only I know about Farooq, because that only leaves one person, me, to ponder the irony of the situation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He was pondering my exact relationship to her, and wondering whether he must bracket us together in futility. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as he pondered the mission that lay ahead for him, he realized, suddenly, he could not fulfill it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Matthew,” protested Rachel timidly, “what is there to ponder? We are the only family she has. Let us talk about it later. Now Katherine is tired, and your work has been delayed already.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

While pondering the matter, a lightning uppercut to my jaw spun me 180 degrees. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch my friends alternately tease me, ponder serious things, and stuff their faces with junk food, I conclude that they’re still the best. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

That was a riddle that Perry had pondered. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung thought of his land and pondered this way and that, with the sickened heart of deferred hope, how he could get back to it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Still, as he pondered Fred’s letter, the notion began to work on him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Colonel Jacobs pondered this and came up with a solution: I could wear long trousers and have my own food, if I agreed to be put in isolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry was still reading and pondering Gandalf’s letter when Strider and Nob returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She caught up her bag and books and hurried after her friends, leaving Harry, Ron, and Hermione to sit down at a window table and ponder what she had told them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

And he would fall silent, and ponder, hour by hour, always watching the sea ahead of the boat’s way. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was pondering where the hammer would fall, Jon could see it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pondered for a moment then set off again, eyes closed, concentrating as hard as he could. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Gogol slouches in his seat and ponders certain awkward truths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Minister, I definitely think this is a matter for the Ministry to ponder at length, yes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

For a moment Carlyle ponders the gray suds in his bucket, then finally says, “It’s behind the peach pit, in the socket of his dead eye.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ll let you ponder that on your way home—especially if you break down.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They pondered a while over their mother’s inscrutable ways. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy couldn’t help but wonder if, just maybe, they were simply pondering mysteries too. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I peer off the side of the ship, pondering the depths, wondering what unknowable mysteries lie beneath us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Many things could have happened. Time is too short to ponder each one.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

When you have done all this, or seen it done, it will be time to ponder concerning these contenders in your house—how you should kill them, outright or by guile. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even while he pondered and decided, the god of earthquake heaved a wave against him high as a rooftree and of awful gloom. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fifteen years in America very long time,” Aisha said, as though she had been pondering this. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago, Taryn started calling those times when they’d be hanging out and then got really quiet “pondering mysteries.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Holly stopped and fell silent, as though pondering on what he remembered. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I inhale deeply, tracing the hard lines of his jaw with the tips of my fingers, pondering the winding paths that life presents—ends leading to beginnings and back again. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I stood in front of one of the store mirrors pondering my skin color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I pondered a great many options before settling on fabricating everything from ice. I am pleased that you think it like a dream, as that is where the core of the idea came from.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I placed the receiver back in its cradle, I pondered the call for a few seconds. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all the time they talked: they talked of rockets, orbits, space; gravely they pondered the seven stomachs of a cow; tomorrow’s weather; but neither mentioned dogs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all of that day, Mother pondered it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Kenton seemed to ponder this for a moment, then said: 'It occurs to me you must be a well-contented man, Mr Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I take the piece of paper, ponder Skye for a moment, and get to work. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to young Mariam to ponder the unfairness of apologizing for the manner of her own birth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sherman picked up the bar and pondered the wounded piece of steel. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had defeated a car and a mountain as she pondered over my father’s fidelity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any other time, I would have pondered on that, but right then it seemed natural. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, “Fathers and teachers, I ponder ‘What is hell?’ Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

His music creates long arcs of pondering and confession, rising gradually and gustily, often to a peak that offers Mr. Clementine’s full voice, keening and exposed. Benjamin Clementine Performs at Rough Trade 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Amnesia runs rampant as they ponder what might have happened: “I have a boyfriend, but … I don’t think he crazy.” Tubi Is Rewriting the Rules of Black Indie Movies (for Free) 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Monica Drake commented, in this tender, meditative memoir, Griffin’s evangelizing of Black literature sends you back to Baldwin, Coates, Morrison and others “to ponder and treasure them anew.” One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

This seems like an odd question to ponder nearly three full seasons into “Silicon Valley,” but it’s worth asking: What exactly is Pied Piper anyway? ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 9: What Exactly Is Pied Piper? 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

She has often pondered whether she made the right choice in giving up her own academic ambitions. Theater Review: ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2012-06-13T02:00:01Z

Perhaps executives at Universal Pictures, pondering this movie project at the script stage, were telling each other that it should be called The Bourne Sustainability or The Bourne Inclusivity. The Bourne Legacy – review 2012-08-09T14:30:01Z

The crucial question Romans asked themselves—one that future generations have also pondered—is: What made Rome great? What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

For a long time, after each new mass shooting, the actor Alex Frost would guiltily ponder whether the first movie he ever appeared in may have motivated the perpetrators. ‘Elephant’ at 20: A Drama About a Mass Shooting Remains Chilling 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Munn ponders that question a moment, while he finishes a mouthful of salad. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

The painting, an original study for the work called “Tough Call,” shows three umpires pondering whether to halt a game as raindrops begin to fall. 'Print' on Texas family wall is original Rockwell, sells for $1.6 million 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Now the ballet world is pondering the fate of the Martins ballets in the post-Martins era. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

It’s an interesting thought that they might be able to think deeply, or ponder the meaning of life. Making the Monsters of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

In the episode’s final minutes, Obama, pondering his own success and the lives of successful people, asks Letterman if he feels like his life has been lucky. Review | Letterman sits down with Obama, but both men seem rusty and off their game 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Robert Greene’s two most recent documentaries pondered the ethics of re-enacting traumatic events, with an interest in immersion’s psychological effects on performers. ‘Procession’ Review: Art as Exorcism 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Because he was pondering why people commit evil acts, he chose the “number of the beast” that appears in the Book of Revelations in the New Testament and is associated with the Antichrist. Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

She spends more time pondering and reminiscing than swashbuckling or scheming. The Life and Times of China’s Pirate Queen 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Now he ponders the treasure trove that "Complete Mythology" contains, ripe for re-evaluation and appreciation, and smiles. Soul great's 'Mythology' rings true 2010-11-26T15:04:00Z

She includes quotations from existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and political philosopher Frantz Fanon, who analyzed poverty and racism, and ponders issues as current as yesterday’s newspaper and today’s blog post. In the galleries: 12 modern Madonnas 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Another chance to ponder the holes left by departing domestics. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

He pondered if America, under a second Trump term, would “become a democracy in name only, similar to a Turkish democracy or a Russian democracy?” Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Eager to work with Mr. Rowe again, Mr. Hupp and Ms. Brainin have been scheming about future projects, pondering which roles — maybe something in Shakespeare? — would be a great fit for him. The World Really Is a Stage, Scripts and All, to an Actor With Autism 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

I'm honestly not sure whether or not it's a good movie, but it doesn't leave you much time to ponder that question. "Rango" and the rise of kidult-oriented animation 2011-03-03T02:02:00Z

After only a few minutes’ pondering, we settled on Floret, a border that dates from around 1768 and whose original colorway fortuitously matched the wallpaper’s. A Fresh Take on Wallpaper Borders 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

It’s worth pondering that seriously while visiting these shows, partly because it shifts the emphasis from thinking about Warhol’s America to thinking about our own relationship to these same icons. Review | Warhol said he wanted to be ‘a machine.’ Two new shows prove he was anything but. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Illustration by D. Baum/Alamy I've recently been pondering some of the more unusual methods children's storytellers use to build character. Why aren't there more musical instruments in children's books? 2012-09-28T17:21:46Z

In the first, “Say Valley Maker,” he pondered his own burial, accepting and then transcending its finality: “I’m gonna phoenix,” was the final line, repeated against an upwelling cacophony of drums and distortion. Music Review: Bill Callahan Show at Jazz at Lincoln Center 2012-02-09T23:04:37Z

Abrams and Stephen King; pondered through various angles by Oliver Stone and Don DeLillo; and filtered through alternate realities where heroes like Doctor Who confront the “what if . . . ?” of it all. “JFK: One Day in America” restores the humanity to one of America's most dramatized tragedies 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z

“Interesting,” Taylor Bubes ponders, “fireplaces and tubs — the places we relax around — could both be on their way out?” Is a bathtub a necessity or a luxury? For some, the answer could be changing. 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

More than a few of these songs ponder death and the afterlife — often, as on “I Feel Closer to Heaven Everyday,” in bright, almost chipper terms. Playlist : New Music From Baroness, Rhoda Vincent, Shintaro Sakamoto 2012-07-20T17:18:02Z

But the other question I pondered at intermission — Why is this a piece for the stage, not the screen? — got its answer in Mr. Glover’s heist. Review: In ‘Fern Hill,’ Scene-Stealing for the Common Good 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Tom O'Neil of the awards website TheEnvelope.com, pondered the link between such breakups and Oscar glory. The "Oscar curse," real or Hollywood invention? 2010-03-19T00:07:00Z

Mr. Breuer said he had pondered a variety of ways of bringing the drowsy South of New Orleans to a Paris stage. Theater: In the Land of Moli?re, an Oriental 'Streetcar' 2011-02-14T16:43:52Z

Al-Khalili profiles the astronomers, mathematicians and sundry boffins who have pondered the fundamental truths of our existence. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z

As such, most of us choose not to ponder the racially and culturally problematic storylines or casting in most TV shows. We are exhausted: Yet another TV series faces claims of sexual harassment, assault and racism 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

To view Stevens’s paintings is to look at people who are looking, and to ponder art about art. In the galleries: New perspectives on Old Masters 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

He ponders today's dearth of rock'n'roll outlaw figureheads and thinks technology might be to blame, "maybe you're just blocked, stopped, the carpet pulled from under you". 'Prison isn't high on my list of tragedies' 2013-05-27T17:30:00Z

Played as a group — the way people used to listen to albums — the songs became a larger cycle: not a narrative but a collection of characters and inquiries, pondering how the past lingers. Music Review: Rosanne Cash at Town Hall 2014-03-19T21:56:10Z

Mr. Padmore is overwhelming in the epilogue, when the old Vere, having told the story, ponders yet again the near-love he felt for simple young Billy and berates himself for his failure. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z

She also, in one of the show's many ironic deflections, ponders who should receive her collection of designer shoes. Thursday - review 2013-03-01T14:02:00Z

Rather, it’s in the theater, where audiences watch films and discuss, argue about and ponder what they’ve just seen. The 2015 AFI Docs program proved to be eerily timely and cathartic 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Alcide's phone rings and he's off on a mysterious errand, leaving Sookie to ponder the lame joke of "Monster Mash" playing in the background. "True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four 2011-09-12T11:59:00Z

As your new Carpetbagger, I’m not going to spend these column inches pondering whether the Oscars continue to matter. Why Oscar Season Is Crazy, Frustrating and Still Essential 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

I'm an adolescent playing the outfield and pondering a girl's gently racist inquiry about my Puerto Rican identity when a baseball smacks me in the eye. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The question has been pondered by mystics through the ages, but in the sanctuary of cinema the voice of a sonorous, authoritative, fear-inspiring yet sometimes relatable presence is, invariably, that of a man. Trailer Voice-Over Work Scarce for Women 2012-01-28T06:15:44Z

Mr. Carnahan said that he was pondering a Cuban project — to improve access to equipment, say, or to help them tighten up scripts. Hola, Cuba! It’s Hollywood Calling 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

On the set of the sequel, Firth ponders the movie’s substantial modern viewership and positions it in the culture somewhere alongside The Sound of Music. Behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s Love Actually: Andrew Lincoln’s creepy cards return 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

They leave impressions to be pondered and stories to be told. Our Critic’s Best Wine Moments of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Considering vermouth invites me to ponder what else enriches me that I take for granted. Want to make a better Manhattan? Pay close attention to the vermouth 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Throughout the opening montage, Russo peers at the city through a defamiliarizing lens, surveying the buzzing wires of the aerial cable cars or pondering the reflections of vehicles and people in glass. ‘El Gran Movimiento’ Review: Subsistence and the City 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

So Stevens supplemented his museum-set pictures with ones that ponder solitary figures in and around Seattle. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

With that evening in mind, Mehta and current music director Alan Gilbert pondered how best to honor the 10th anniversary of Sept. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Trifonov took us on a bracing walk through the work, and it was a joy to pause with him as he pondered something beautiful. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The exhibition is called Jan Gossaert's Renaissance, and that title invites us to ponder two questions – what was the Renaissance, and what was it for him? Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z

As she began writing, she pondered: “How does someone Black get away with murder? How does that even happen? How does that person then reinvent themselves?” Dominique Fishback Knows You Think She’s Sweet. ‘Swarm’ May Confuse That 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

David Marshall Grant ponders that question on a couple of levels in his surprising dark-comic drama “Pen,” now playing in an entertaining Washington Stage Guild production. The power of the ‘Pen’: David Marshall Grant’s darkly comic drama about destiny

Before we could ponder that for very long, he one-upped himself. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

It would be one of Angelou’s last public events, and although the notion generally went unspoken, it was a moment to ponder both the poet’s mortality and her artistic immortality. How Maya Angelou’s words shaped a young Houston girl’s dreams

“Sunday” contends with the pressures of work and the economy; “American Valhalla” ponders the possibility of an afterlife earned by heroic warriors. Review: Iggy Pop and his ‘Post Pop Depression Tour’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

He sprinkled impressionistic clusters, high and translucent and then lower and more aggressive, cleared them away to ponder a melody, then let a dance-tinged pattern emerge and put it through dizzying chromatic transformations. Music Review: Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba at Carnegie 2012-12-05T22:57:47Z

Sitting at its new Palermo Hollywood branch, a modern spot with funky wallpaper and white leather chairs, I pondered the similarities between this cone and one sampled recently at a competitor’s. | Latin America Issue: Buenos Aires: National Treasure in a Cone 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z

Schmidt ponders ecosystems, both organic and synthetic, and the potentially catastrophic effects of human activity on the natural world. Review | At the galleries: How humans threaten the natural world 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

But the leading characters’ cores weirdly dissipate as Ruhl turns the tables, ponders, ruminates. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

I continued to ponder through this moral dilemma as I began my search back in Texas. 'I wanted something that was mine': why I bought a house at 25 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

They had an arresting presence, a combination of graphic refinement, aural strangeness and compressed meaning that made you stop and ponder. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Now I can ponder once again “how many souls deserve your oatmeal this morning.” What to Cook Right Now 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

And PBS ponders the state of the American dream. What’s on TV Friday: Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ and Lewis Black in ‘Black to the Future’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

"Who I wonder gathers tax from the tax-gatherers?" one character pondered. Radio review: The Small House at Allington 2011-03-24T08:00:04Z

In his garage, Harvard dropout Bill pondered why computer hardware was sold but computer software was just passed around. These Are The 25 Most Influential Marriages of All Time 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

"Everything but sloth," he ponders afterward, of the litany of sin he has heard. 'Doc': Mary Doria Russell's intoxicating novel of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and Dodge City 2011-05-11T20:59:05Z

David Stubbs In a series that balances sentimental moments with scenes that make you ponder man's inhumanity to mutt, Paul O'Grady again witnesses life at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. TV highlights – 09/05/2013 2013-05-09T05:59:01Z

This postwar critique was quaint enough when I began pondering “The Conquest of Cool” in 1991. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z

Ms. McGovern, the lawyer who flew with her 1-year-old, has always pondered whether it’s fair to bring babies into first class. Babies in First Class: Which Side of the Aisle Are You On? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

There's even one of Keane belting out Somewhere Only We Know on the Great Wall of China: worth watching if only to ponder how they managed to haul a piano up there. Click to Download: What Are You Listening To?, Bands in Transit, Burberry 2011-08-17T14:29:01Z

The six-song preview of “Rebel Heart” features Madonna’s better side: as a savvy pop ear and musical team leader, and as a lyricist who sometimes ponders sin along with romance and fame. 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Do we mean serious in the sense that some wines are so interesting and complex that we find ourselves engrossed in pondering their characteristics? When Thin and Bitter Are Welcome Wine Words 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

All the same, once I pondered this, I realized that I agreed with you! Perspective | Ask Amy: Live-in boyfriend is suspicious of her every move 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

In Greenwood Rising the links are made overt and we’re urged to ponder them, to recognize that the white-on-Black violence of 1921 is still with us, and that Black disenfranchisement, like racism, remains entrenched. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

I was moved by the relationship of these two women, and was pondering if there was anything that could change their love. Kathleen Turner to Star in New Off-Broadway Play 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Let’s hope the heavens are clear, because people deserve to see and ponder this great phenomenon. Everyone’s freaking out about the eclipse. But gardeners know the sun’s true wonder. 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

There’s no time like the present to ponder spaces that blend exterior and interior for maximum enjoyment. AD’s Aesthete Discovers a Perfect Multi-Season Room 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Middle Men isn't a masterpiece, but as everyone in the media ponders the digital future, it's an interesting portrait of the digital past. Why did Middle Men sink in the UK? 2011-07-07T09:43:32Z

Instead, I let her return to aligning the hangers on the racks just so while I pondered what made some shirts, once vessels of memory, acceptable detritus. Critical Shopper: Raiding Someone Else?s T-Shirt Collection 2010-08-18T00:40:00Z

I pondered what a bilateral mastectomy could be a metaphor for. My daughter’s piercing 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z

But pondering how Gordon will combat the criminals of Gotham is a bit like watching a TV series about shipbuilders constructing the Titanic. “Gotham” is the Batman retelling we didn’t need 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

The empty restaurant, vacant cabins and unblemished sandy paths suddenly become apparent as I ponder my solitary vacation. The magic factor to a solo Colombia adventure: Turtle power 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Time and history, as experienced both personally and collectively, are just two of the big ideas this novel leaves a reader pondering. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Feffer is well informed but not very theatrical as he embodies a couple of personas in North Korea and ponders the gap between collectivism and individualism, tyranny and freedom. Review | The British hit ‘Oil’ strikes a vein in its U.S. debut at Olney 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

It was, ponders Sam, "as if he were blessing it, its very ordinariness, by witnessing it." 'The Lake Shore Limited': Sue Miller's novel of 4 lives shaped by loss 2010-03-31T21:17:00Z

In the seven years I’ve lived in Amsterdam, I often find myself pondering the concept of space. Quirks of Amsterdam, Revealed During Lunch 2013-04-19T14:56:08Z

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows: The season premiere of "Journey to Planet Earth" ponders how climate change might lead to global political upheaval. TV This Week, Dec. 14-20: 'Ascension' and more 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The sequence followed the lyrics of the song and was as follows: me in a cafe, sad, pondering what to do. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

“We think Tate’s inability and unwillingness to actually DO anything about the mural, beyond vague abstract pondering, is a sad, sad indictment,” they said. Racist Mural Puts Tate Galleries in a Bind 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Well,” she pondered, “not much. There used to be one sport shop, and now there are two…” The ‘magic’ lift pass to 30 Swiss ski resorts 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

As the series developed, she and her writing team began pondering the "what-if" of an all-sign language episode for the second season. 'Switched at Birth' goes silent to make a point 2013-03-01T18:47:10Z

Rather than conjuring nature, these surreal elements distract you from the characters as you ponder what Mr. Audi’s point may be. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

It soon slowed again, though, as I went back to pondering the unfortunate fitness of one of the show’s repeated lyrics: “They say all kinds of clichés here/Like what happens here stays here.” Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Varda enthusiastically downloads almost too much information for viewers to absorb and ponder and reflect on, but that is part of the film’s charm. “Varda by Agnès” is a poignant and joyous self-portrait of the remarkable late artist 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Do they ponder, "does white supremacy through these white savior figures, acting in way rooted in imperialism, necessarily end in genocide?" "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The lyrics ponder spiritual matters, while the arrangement — elusive acoustic guitar and Mr. DeFrancesco providing not only vaporous keyboard but also a muted, Miles Davis-tinged trumpet — beckons toward, if not into, the mystic. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

As usual, Rei Kawakubo gave you something to ponder about the male animal: Did the camouflage and rock music represent a yearning for glory? Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

Exposed as a fraud, Doe will finally ponder suicide for real. How Frank Capra's scared and gullible ordinary joes laid the foundations for the Tea Party 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

She ponders the very meaning of art, observing that gallery representation is “the main criterion for who counts as An Artist.” Review | An aspiring artist finds out it’s never too late to start over 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Firestone prompted her clients to ponder the difference. The Art of Drinking? Right This Way, S’il Vous Plaît. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

More specifically, we might ponder the world that is in part a result of absorbing formative lessons about politics, other countries and unfamiliar people through the limited, specific vision perpetuated by movies and television. "Stranger Things" wants to be everybody's memory and nobody's parable 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But pondering the rough, raw lines is probably not as much as fun as making them. Review | In the galleries: David X Levine uses pencils to put a new spin on an Old Master 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

That laissez-faire attitude, expressed in nursery rhyme language, is worth pondering. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z

While viewers ponder the depths of the human heart, Dixie suggests that her boss is the van Gogh of animals. ?American Stuffers? Family: Warm Hearts and Freeze-Dried Pets 2012-01-12T00:44:55Z

All of this invites us to ponder how closely our perceptual and cognitive habits conform to things as they truly are. Art in Review: Alicja Kwade: ‘The Heavy Weight of Light’ 2012-12-20T21:40:23Z

Many of the lyrics, as she suggested, resemble late-night ruminations, pondering life’s pressures, aging, the meaning of love. The Clock Strikes: Time for Taylor Swift’s New LP, ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Speakers don't typically ponder "the dark chasm of meaninglessness," nor do they provoke laughter in the wrong places. Liz Magic Laser subversively splits medium from message 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

When, in one year or five, we finally get out of Donald Trump’s foreign policy dentist’s chair, that is one of the puzzles we may wish to ponder as we rub our aching jaw. The Military’s Illusions About Donald Trump 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

I had to study and ponder and write, even for a while after she made her quiet, no-nonsense departure from the church. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z

The following episode has “Shakespeare in Love” actor Joseph Fiennes pondering why “Romeo and Juliet” remains the most adapted and performed of Shakespeare’s works. TV listings: Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As I chatted with colleagues this morning, who reminded me of the nearing Mayan cliff, and I started pondering how I would spend my last three weeks on this planet. Mayan Apocalypse Film Festival – 21 Films for Our Final 21 Days 2012-11-30T17:20:31Z

My sweet wife snaps me out of my Aquarian aloofness, questions my constant dreaming and pondering. How do I know if I'm a great father or a terrible father? How will I know? 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The routines are arduous yet simple: Wake, work, eat, ponder, sleep. Perspective | Nothing really happens on ‘The Last Alaskans,’ which is why it’s still the best reality show 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Calm on the outside but bustling within, “Inside Outside” ponders fate, physics and free will. Drake Surprises With a Kim Kardashian Sample, and 11 More New Songs 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

In and of itself, the back-and-forth is quite amusing, but it's also interesting to peel back the layers and ponder why social media users reacted the way they did to such a seemingly simple announcement. After Cracker Barrel adds vegan sausage, some say chain is too "woke" 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

After a moment of silence for the departed, questions and talking points to ponder: 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: No Exit 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

As he searches through the attic of his memory, there’s no artifact too minor, no detail too small for Gold to hold up and ask us to ponder with him. A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

As the track builds around her, from a lone plucked guitar to an electronic citadel, she recognizes her own vulnerability, ponders it and takes the leap anyway. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Join the Academy Award-winner and assorted scientists as they ponder questions of life and death in the second season premiere. Tuesday TV Picks: 'Through the Wormhole' on the Science Channel 2011-06-07T21:09:17Z

On the Nasdaq screen, the rocks seemed to ponder the blow for a bit, then split in leisurely fashion. Share Your Thoughts 2010-09-28T18:15:00Z

“Do we need the institutional knowledge or do we need fresh faces?” he pondered. Email can ruin your life 2012-06-24T14:00:00Z

“We all sit around and ponder that, and it becomes a question especially when you are criticizing your own side. . . . There is a theatrics to all of this.” Kirsten Powers: An antiabortion, antiwar liberal working for Fox News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Polanski also served two months in prison as the Swiss government pondered his extradition. Polanski to pick up award at Zurich Film Festival 2011-09-15T09:49:08Z

Unlike typical renditions, Ratmansky chose not to have Juliet sit on her bed after Romeo leaves and ponder her dilemma to the swell of some of Prokofiev's most dramatic music. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

But Jerome also inspired artists to depict landscapes, usually some characteristically leafy European fantasy of the “barren desert” where he supposedly spent years beating his chest with a rock and pondering the vanity of life. Perspective | In real life, Jerome was a combative intellectual. Artists made him lovable. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the Hadid suit and settlement leaves me pondering the uneasy question of responsibility. The Zaha Hadid lawsuit and the critic's responsibility 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

I sit in the hairdresser’s chair pondering possible small talk. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Scarier still, she has been pondering threats of violent resistance toward the real Hillary. The Surreal Election Season of a Hillary Clinton Impersonator 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Or reading Date Lab and pondering why people fall for each other — or don’t. Introducing a new era for The Washington Post Magazine 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He ponders these arguments, then flings them away as intolerable horse waste. ‘Plunder,’ a Gripping Reflection on What the Nazis Took and What It Would Mean to Take It Back 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Ravi has the next month to sit in a jail cell and ponder the answer to that question. Dharun Ravi says he’s sorry 2012-05-30T15:30:00Z

But when the New York Musical Festival takes them up, and show tunes are involved, it’s a drag queen, a guru and a mermaid who do the pondering. The Drag Queen Overshares, but the Guru Has Something to Hide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

At Wine School, we find it fascinating and illuminating to ponder the nature of wine’s appeal. The Beauty of Saumur Champigny, Not Always Appreciated 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Hip-hop has hit middle age, with rappers like Jay-Z and Kanye West pondering their longevity and tenuous places within the genre’s hierarchy through rhyme. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ordeal by Innocence’ and ‘Great Performances’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

In my youthful smugness, I pondered how I’d assertively handle a similar situation, how I’d stand up for myself and what I felt was the right thing to do. I shook hands with a Klansman 2013-03-10T13:00:00Z

It’s more worthwhile, perhaps, to ponder the question of how we wound up with this decision in the first place. “Birdman” vs. “Boyhood”: The Oscars race to save Hollywood’s soul 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The artist ponders “hyphenated identity” and pursues “wholeness and belonging,” the gallery’s note explains. Review | In the galleries: Roving photographers capture street scenes around the world 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

It's a painful question, but one I found myself pondering while moving house recently. My book cull 2010-11-24T09:29:00Z

Then I stopped at a rustic wine tavern where Beethoven had stayed, Mayer am Pfarrplatz, ordered a glass of blaufränkisch, and pondered how, so soon after despairing, Beethoven entered one of his most groundbreaking periods. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

It's never a good sign when you leave a world premiere pondering the superfluity of the interval. Scones and tea won't help Theresa Rebeck's 'Zealot' at SCR 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Just as Bill Callahan is pondering which seat to chose in a half-deserted London hotel lobby, a news item about the sex offenders register comes on the TV in the corner. Bill Callahan: 'I've finally accepted that I'm an entertainer' 2011-03-31T11:47:40Z

Coming at hip-hop from a far different background was Kate Tempest, an English poet, playwright and rapper who vehemently pondered moral dilemmas in a consumerist era. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Two ballads, “Love and Hard Times” and “Questions for the Angels,” ponder divine visitation and the value of humanity, setting the beat aside for melodies that amble like spontaneous musings. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z

Like him, she is interested in beauty, in always giving the viewer plenty to look at while pondering her possible meanings. Art Review: Haim Steinbach’s and Helen Marten’s Solos at Bard College 2013-08-01T22:21:00Z

“No place else that constantly reminds us that we are important,” she ponders. What Happens When an African-American Girl From Oregon Discovers Harlem? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

In 1976, Mr. Winchester released “Let the Rough Side Drag,” which pondered love, faith and commitment. Jesse Winchester, Writer and Singer of Thoughtful Songs, Dies at 69 2014-04-11T23:53:26Z

“For every hour we spend pondering design challenges and visual layouts, we spend four to five hours project-managing and coordinating,” he says. The man responsible for all the details you probably don’t even notice 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

When you learn that the name Hesperios means “evening star” in Greek, the notebooks seem less like a branding exercise and more like taking a moment to stop and ponder starlight. Shop, Eat, Envy 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The younger man began to ponder the unthinkable: Could his estranged brother be a serial killer? How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Trapped in prison, Oyza can thus only ponder if the Ungoverned are real, if they practice the teachings of the book she loves, and if she might one day break free to find them. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

He asked us to ponder these architectural artifacts with him, suggesting that they dated to a time when people tried to protect themselves against marauders in search of slaves. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Kingsman, a 27-year-old manufacturing engineer in Portland, Ore., dragged the conversation on so long that this stranger in the citrus aisle interjected with an answer to a question she hadn’t pondered: “I’m married.” It’s not just you. We’re all socially awkward now. 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

It would also be a good idea to ponder on why it’s an issue for you. My partner lives in my home - but what is fair financially? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

And the ending, in which Stone ponders what he learned from Lansky — “We measure ourselves through the eyes of the ones we love” — is a baffling detour into soppiness. ‘Lansky’ Review: A Mobster Burnishes His Legacy 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

"I see them in my mind's eye a brave minority, sitting in silence, pondering and planning — the way it used to be." Anyone there? When your email goes unanswered 2011-07-19T00:20:05Z

Maybe such interludes invite us to ponder the concept of animal attraction or even animal companionship in these times. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

That serene sound walk led listeners through sinuous miles of Green-Wood Cemetery, with stops at the graves of women interred there and moments to ponder questions of mortality, environment and time. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was a fitting invitation for this actor, who’s been pondering Web strategy since before most people got their first dial-up connection. How Romany Malco Became an Early Online Star 2012-04-13T17:30:00Z

Historically speaking, worrying about whether your characters will be murdered by the audience is not something most writers have had to ponder overmuch. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Scott’s review of the film explained that there’s no better movie for pondering the question “is everything about race?” #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Rather, the 27-year-old is pondering the unspoken rules of Hollywood prejudice – who gets to share a platform with whom, and whether there’s only space for one minority figure at any given time. Hollywood's Jeremy Pope: 'Is there room for another black man like me?' 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mixing a suave bossa nova with a tapping, stubbornly resistant cross-rhythm, Jamila Woods neatly underlines the ambivalence she sings about, as she ponders just how close she wants someone to get. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

These are among the questions I’m pondering as I stand on the corner of 17th and K streets NW, shielding my eyes and scanning the food trucks camped around Farragut Square. A call for tips: Help me find the area’s best cheap-eats destinations 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Although this book will be a hard read for any committed conservatives, they would do well to ponder it. The Many Varieties of Donald Trump 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

While Jon ponders this weighty matter, he makes a life-or-death decision in his nascent role as Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Cersei, Sparrows form unholy alliance 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

He looked out over the pool, to the canyon beyond, and pondered being portrayed by an Oscar-winning actor. Is Stan Lee Being Held Prisoner by Real-Life Villains? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The exhibition is “a space for people to feel. Also, in a way, it’s for people to ponder how we might grieve on a collective level and care for each other as well.” In Hong Kong, a New Exhibit Creates a ‘Space for People to Feel’ 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

Predictably, the outrage is reaching a fever pitch, as people ponder a less-but-more Taste. Sink your teeth into a better Taste 2011-06-23T11:42:00Z

"I wonder how painful it is to remove it..." a second pondered. Duct-tape bikini trend invades Coachella, receives mixed feedback from festivalgoers 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Does the show mark "a paradigm shift in our own theatre," asks one reader; will it influence "a whole generation of writers and directors," ponders another. Game-changing theatre: how John McGrath did it slowly but surely 2012-05-28T11:18:43Z

Willie Nelson & Family With country’s weed-lovin’ outlaw humorously pondering mortality on his new album, “Last Man Standing,” it’s hard to know how many tours the 85-year-old icon has left in the tank. Washington’s best outdoor summer festivals and concerts 2018 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Nolfi and Damon said their goal was to make a romantic action film that also made people think, a popcorn flick for couples open to pondering predestination afterward in a coffee shop. God, destiny, good, evil ... and Matt Damon 2011-03-03T06:25:51Z

Two years ago, the Daily Mail pondered whether the practice was “horrifying.” Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z

As Billie Holiday sang “As Time Goes By” on the jukebox, I pondered fame. Dylan McDermott: The First Time I Waited On a Celebrity’s Table 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

In “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds,” Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer ponder the mythic, spiritual gravitational pull of meteors and comets on humanity — and on Herzog, himself. New this week: ‘I Am Greta,’ Chris Stapleton & CMA Awards 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

I stare at the Bridal Veil falls and ponder its name. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Let it reside in the mind to be pondered with many sorts of wines on all types of occasions, in many differing moods. What Is a Great Wine? Verdicchio di Matelica Has Some Ideas 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I would be without it now,” she ponders. Olivia Newton-John: ‘I don't wish cancer on anyone else. But for me, it has been a gift’ 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

And this is ultimately what Saint-Exupéry opines as he ponders the very nature of existence. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mumford sings about soul-searching, pondering troubles that intertwine the romantic, the spiritual and the existential. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z

This awkward attempt to portray Grant’s interior suggests incredibly that he never pondered the uses of power. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Flights to St Lucia for the cricket World Cup in 2007 … I had been pondering it and when I was made redundant, I had time for the trip, if not the money. Drunk online shopping: readers’ regrets 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Crossing the illuminated Manhattan Bridge to the third site, in SoHo, Mr. Miller pondered the future. A Long Night of ‘Flower Flashing’ With Lewis Miller 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

It is a question that Forte said he has occasionally pondered over a career spent making what he called “smarter things cloaked in dumb stuff,” and one that he finds himself no closer to answering. Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Sitting on the floor with a knee bent in front of her torso, she gazes soulfully into a high corner of the space like a model whose motivation is to ponder the Dalai Lama. Dance Review: ‘Princess Crocodile,’ New Work From LeeSaar the Company 2014-04-13T21:40:49Z

While you ponder where between these extreme reactions you’ll fall, a quick update. Review: ‘Transformers’ _ way, WAY more of the same 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

As he pondered various themes, dePaola remembered one of his most cherished cookbooks, "Celebrating Italy" by Carol Field. 'Strega Nona's Gift' is a feast of celebrations 2011-12-03T08:12:37Z

He spent a long time, he says, pondering his parents’ letters before he decided how to shape them for an audience. Love is the best revenge for the evils of the Holocaust 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

The half-hour time limit on each close-ended story works in the series’ favor, though, because even an unsuccessful “Room 104” episode leaves the viewer something to ponder. Hotel-based shows “Room 104″ and “The Guest Book” have limited staying power 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Last week, my friends and I pondered the North Korea situation. Make war great again! Die-hard Trump fans, have I got a plan for you 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The drunken hero “ponders deeply” but ends by rejecting seasonal joys in favor of continued sleep and stupor. A Mahler Mini-Festival in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

Or, wait, it was for some other awards show -- Golden Globes earlier this year I believe as I ponder it. Emmy Awards 2016: Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The adult Wideman, pondering the Till file he’s sent away for, finds it full of lies, then looks at it another way. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

As one skeptic pondered Thursday, “So I assume, as evidence, the court will be holding the fetus in a locker and destroying it after trial?” Cathrynn Brown wants to abort mission 2013-01-25T15:50:00Z

Still, when a motion capture project helmed by no less than Steven Spielberg is denied recognition, it leads one to ponder just what Oscar voters are looking for. The Oscars vs. Motion Capture: Tintin and Apes Snubs Raise Big Questions About the Academy 2012-02-08T17:02:25Z

As for Alison's own assessment pondering making one bad choice after another. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

He sucked deeply on a cigarette, pondering a future that looked as empty as a room with no furniture. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – digested read 2013-07-28T19:00:01Z

Johnson ponders pain caused by the killer, her father, even herself, especially after losing the religious faith that once provided a framework. True Crime Gets Its Close-Up 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

As I drive away, I ponder Custer’s folly and the bravery of the Sioux. US road trip: slow drive to Sitting Bull country in North and South Dakota 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

Just then, I was also pondering an email from one of my editors about a chapter in my latest book. AWAY IS HOME | Bad start to the trip? Don’t turn back 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

We often ponder “getting away from it all.” A Maui vacation in three acts 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

In this early painting, he is already pondering the mystery that would fascinate Leonardo all his life – how to build a flying machine. How Leonardo da Vinci's angels pointed the way to the future 2012-12-25T01:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, as Mr. Elman pondered ways of increasing the number of men on the site, he remembered soccer. British Men and American Women Meet Over Soccer 2010-06-16T20:07:00Z

James Ijames’s beautiful, elegiac play ponders the unjustified killings of black youth by police officers through an unblinking, everlasting gaze. 12 Streamable Plays That Depict Black Lives Pierced by Racism 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

In due time, we’ll peer in on her private life and ponder its relevance to her work and reputation, but for now we know her as a poised paragon of artistic accomplishment. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mrs. Bond said that while her organization’s work remains vital, she ponders whether it will always be necessary. Black Girls Rock! Holds Up an Unapologetic Mirror 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

“Money means power,” she ponders while on a sponsored luxury vacation in the Maldives. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

When Google released its top trending search terms for 2014, the search engine invited us to peer into the abyss and ponder a terrifying question: “what do these searches say about us?” 2014: Our year in trendy diets 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

Running with “The Case of the Poisonous Poet” is a case involving a bloodthirsty beast, which makes one ponder the prospect of nonhuman cast members to up the ante even more. Review: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ ‘The Plough and the Stars’ and ‘The Game’s Afoot’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But in Barnett’s hands, death is not something to fear; merely something else to ponder every now and again, no bigger or more important than love or nature or parenthood or faith. The Future Is Big. So Courtney Barnett Still Sings About Small Things. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

They invite us to lift our eyes from our tablets long enough to ponder the fate of once-grand tomes rotting away in the stacks. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z

His handlers pondered, came up with a plan: Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The theme of these poems may make you cringe 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

When asked what things he has been wrong about in hindsight, Maher stops to ponder. Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who was among the most influential Catholic thinkers of the 20th century, pondered this question intently. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

As I’m pondering this depressing truism, she adds, “Because girls aren’t allowed to confront big questions! Their experience is cordoned off and diminished. We see this over and over again.” Before I Fall: The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

As I basked in the sheer loveliness of graceful, long-lined melodies whose very structure seems to promise a settled domestic life with a bright future, I pondered the temptations and pitfalls of that dream. Music Review: Back at Midcentury, When Broadway Knew Romance 2011-03-22T20:15:03Z

But there’s no time to ponder whether Westworld will copy its 1973 movie source and introduce other themed parks, because Hector and Armistice need to keep painting the town bloody red. “Westworld” Season One Finale: Violent Ends 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

An admirer of Watson's quicksilver lyricism since his days with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers might ponder whether such capricious talent in an educator could make just seem too mysterious and daunting a challenge for students. Bobby Watson/GMF festival – review 2013-04-01T15:57:27Z

Had they been able to reconcile their different upbringings and move beyond pondering what might have been? ‘I gulp back feelings of regret’: how I found my long-lost sibling 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

In his dying hours, lying helpless in the rubble, he might have pondered the improbable turn of events that saw his last hopes resting in the hands of two American reservists. Television: Greg Barker?s Film About Sergio Vieira de Mello 2010-04-30T19:38:00Z

Never exactly a light-hearted band, Death Cab for Cutie has a singer and lyricist, Benjamin Gibbard, who has been pondering big questions for the better part of the last decade. Critics? Choice: Brooding Now Laced With Hope 2011-05-30T21:33:36Z

The prolongation of the victims' agonies, it emerges, is also supposed to provide those watching with time to ponder the perpetrator's motives. How The Killer Inside Me hurts women for fun 2010-06-07T11:55:00Z

It was a night, several of them agreed, to ponder the future of the American arts. At Kennedy Center Honors, ‘Hamilton’ Creators Are Lauded 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a question the chef ponders as he rewrites his menu for the next season. Ocopa rises to the top on H Street NE, while DC Harvest shows spark

The mood turns darker, and the underlying theological ideas more challenging, when the play ponders whether humans generate their own evil, apart from any malevolent supernatural being. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity

In the early years, the club sponsored essay contests in which young women were encouraged to ponder questions like, “Can systematical and economical housekeeping be carried on in conjunction with keeping up your intellectual pursuits?” A Cooking Club That’s 124 Years Old and Counting 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Is that body included?" another pondered, referring to the model featured in the image. Micro 'skinny dipping' bikini with invisible straps comes with 'caution,' causes social media frenzy 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

While the Studio Museum will tackle activism through a creative lens, a discussion on Tuesday at the National Black Theater will ask panelists to look inward to ponder the emotional expressions of resistance. Afropunk: Feeling Black Activism’s Joy, and Its Pain 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

It sets a poetic sequence by Christopher Reid, in which two skeletons, hanging on the wire between the opposing armies, converse and ponder their experiences. Prom 50: CLS/Layton ? review 2011-08-22T10:11:37Z

As they describe young love — what it’s like, say, to learn to ask another person out — they ponder how a broken heart might feel. For Theater Lovers, a City Is the Stage, and a Purple Cow Is a Prop 2011-08-12T22:44:06Z

I have sometimes pondered the difference in expectations of attending, say, a Mozart concert by a small philharmonic and an outdoor staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by a shoestrings ensemble. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Moviegoers weren’t exactly in the mood to ponder big questions about humanity and outer space this weekend. 'Big Hero 6' Blasts Past 'Interstellar' at Box Office 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

A British astrophysicist said that pondering the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" could "tear the mind asunder." Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

Meanwhile, as he ponders the ramifications of that particular fact, he has many different constituencies to satisfy: government, business, environmental advocates, and the general public. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

Foodstirs’ existence led me to ponder other ways competitors might innovate, or pivot. Be better than Betty Crocker. Here's how to make your own baking mixes like a pro. 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

As the title suggests, it also finds IDK pondering Christian theology and the existence of God. At MilkBoy ArtHouse, rapper IDK tackles daydreams and drive-bys 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

Among the weighty subjects pondered by literary intellectuals, dance seldom rates very high. Zadie Smith on Dance: ‘It Brings Such Intense Joy’ 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I see them in my mind’s eye a brave minority, sitting in silence, pondering and planning — the way it used to be.” Anyone There? 2011-07-15T19:54:11Z

In “Superstar” it’s the disciple Judas Iscariot who dominates the libretto, as he ponders the mass awe that Jesus elicits and tries to figure out why. Spring Performance: On Broadway, a Penchant for Celebrity Biographies in Song 2012-02-23T22:15:24Z

I’ve been pondering this as I approach my departure after 21 years as the chief classical music critic of The New York Times. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

He pondered this absently as he put his shoes into a plastic bin. Motherlode: Dad Travels for Work 2011-03-23T21:48:09Z

Spouting the script taken from the advertorial, they ponder the Imperial's virtues in a seedy diner and even continue the discussion in the restroom doorway as Lee takes a leak. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z

Whether the kids inside it were pondering Buddhism is difficult to say. Art at Carkeek: Buddhist teachings? Or teenage hangout? 2012-08-23T20:59:03Z

In looking at the literature inspired by the war, he ponders just what makes a “good” war story. Stellar nonfiction chosen by the National Book Critics Circle 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

At a time of bitter partisanship and disturbing xenophobia, it was chilling to hear the commanding soprano Felicia Moore, as Anthony, in a powerful soliloquy pondering why men oppose efforts on behalf of voting rights. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

But he also wants to remind us that “it’s not the skricket of the cricket/but its silence that is clairvoyant,” that it’s always worth pondering “what would that letter after Z look like.” Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z

He’s been pondering them good and hard, for a long time. To Get This Artist’s Message, You Have to Look Really Closely 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Alas, after a few novels he started to fear that marriage was too boring a state for his red-blooded hero, so he began to ponder killing off the admirable Weather. In ‘Dark Reservations,’ a missing congressman casts a deadly shadow 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Now on view in a handsomely acted production from Mosaic Theater Company, the play thoughtfully ponders migration, assimilation and barriers to understanding between people of different heritages. Review | Distinctive characters energize Mosaic Theater’s ‘Pilgrims Musa & Sheri’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

One even plays the panpipes as they ponder. Picasso and beach culture: a cocktail of sand and sensuality 2011-08-18T14:36:21Z

You say: It’s a time-honored tradition dating to antiquity, when Athenians gathered in hillside amphitheaters to ponder the tragedies of Euripides. Perspective | Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the theatrical sun 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

It's possible to conclude that he's not pondering the error of his ways, but just weighing up their cost. Life Zucks 2010-10-18T10:21:00Z

Quickly and concisely, they construct a world, pull you in and, if they’re good, spit you back out to ponder some deep life questions. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Exactly when the smashing took place is not known, but the big gap between occupation and posting is worth pondering. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the abstract, it was fascinating to ponder future uses of smart fabrics that react to environmental factors — particularly the military camouflage they were designed to produce. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

What is important to us?, the book ponders. 'Get Carter' and the birth of British noir 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

We may be leaving our multiplexes feeling respectful or gobsmacked or even pondering the deeper ethical implications of man’s inhumanity to monkey. ‘Apes’ raises a common question about reboots: Why so serious?

Critics often ponder how to save classical music. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

It's meta and left me pondering how this video was made. Videos of the day: YouTube and Guggenheim's shortlist of the most creative videos 2010-09-21T21:58:00Z

Winter, far from being a dormant season, is tailor-made for such pondering and planning. If 2018’s rains wrecked your garden, it might be time to try something new 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

"Supposing the universe has a meaning," the narrator ponders early in the novel. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z

So Matt and Mercedes, members of the Republican establishment who had been defending Trump longer than most, drove to Victory Farm, their weekend home in Virginia, to ponder whether to stick with him. How two old-school Washington insiders became the cool kids of Trumpism 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Undeterred, Nate voices a question he's possibly been pondering all season: The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

And Kubrick pondered, and answered, “You know, how does anyone ever come up with anything?“ Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z

Here he ponders the mysteries of permanent absence and lingering presence, and pokes at the culture’s deep discomfort with the inevitability of death and loss. He Made a Show About Grief. She Saw Herself In It. 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Frowning over Marigold, he ponders: “There is something about her. … I don’t know, a sense of déjà vu. … Can’t quite put my finger on it. …” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Yes, It's Called the Hornby Hotel 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

A former minister turned church groundskeeper, he ponders his life, most notably a terrible tragedy, and his relationship with his daughter. Theater to Stream: ‘The Wolves,’ and More Archival Treasures 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Some of you might be pondering a major career leap too… but are hesitant and scared about what life will be like on the other side. 3 Mantras to Help You Become More Entrepreneurial 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Between songs, two questions you might ponder: Why are Brits constantly copying American music? Sam Smith – just a pretty voice? | Concert preview 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The horrifying footage of neglected child inmates is truly upsetting, but the entire film is haunting as Zeman and Brancaccio, a likable pair, ponder a series of potentially awful truths. SAM begins Kurt Cobain film series; NWFF has 'Cropsey' 2010-07-22T21:47:00Z

When asked whether he’s been pondering his mortality of late, Dylan recently told the New York Times, “I think about the death of the human race. The long strange trip of the naked ape.” Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

But he spoke openly about a few things that rule his world — opinion-free news, the Lake District in England and his iPod — and pondered his final resting place. Charlie Hunnam Is a Cat Person 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

It’s a question locals must ponder when they find themselves looking at the Potomac from dry land, and catching sight of the brand-name party boats floating by. Dinner cruise on the Potomac: A moveable feast with unbeatable views

"Daddy Doesn't Pray No More" ponders faith, while "Why I Cry" is a wrenching weeper filled with angst and revelation. Essential albums of 2015: Bjork, Kendrick and 8 others on the edge of pop 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Rather than merely responding to his behavioural prompts, these are the questions you should be pondering. My husband left me for another woman – but now wants me back | Dear Mariella 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

He pondered this observation for a second or two. René Redzepi Plans to Close Noma and Reopen It as an Urban Farm 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

But some artists are better suited than others to ponder the film’s eternal issues of love and death. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z

As he ponders staging another tour after finishing the current trek, rumored to be his last, Seger's standing as the godfather of heartland rock appears cemented. Bob Seger never forgets 2011-05-15T14:44:00Z

While she is learning to ride and hunt, many of the world’s leading intellectuals are pondering the “woman question.” A Century Before Hillary 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

I’ve spent plenty of time pondering the very fabric of the universe and how we fit into it. The brain injury that made me a math genius 2014-04-20T19:00:00Z

Perhaps not surprisingly in the era of #MeToo and myriad female political candidates, several of the works ponder male anxiety. Review | Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

I’m sitting at that moment on the sofa and pondering, looking at the floor. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Kingfisher,” the album’s penultimate song, ponders eternity: “Stand here and name the one you love, beneath the drifting ashes,” she sings, “and, in naming, rise about time, as it, flashing, passes.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z

Still, going out for an ice-cream cone is a great, inexpensive pleasure, where waiting in line, pondering which flavor to get and then racing to eat it before it melts is sweet social theater. Ice cream scoops of memories 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Which leaves the reader to ponder the irreconcilable facts of the case. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

Staudinger uses these items to engage in wordplay, ponder the role of the artist and pen a fragmentary autobiography. Review | In the galleries: Breaching the border between art and furniture 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

On a nice day, the seats must be a pleasant place to sit and ponder the planet’s accelerating crackup. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

It's natural to take comfort in the simple humor of "Vacation Friends" without pondering everything its subtext implies, the positive and the questionable. "Vacation Friends" is a happy buddy comedy in a world where race doesn't matter. That's a problem 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Although Boulez was to live over 20 years after the final lecture, “Music Lessons” has the feel of a vast expository Gesamtkunstwerk that ponders and probes musical experience to its very essence. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Another thing to ponder: Why is UK pop all the rage on American radio right now? Deck the Hall Ball and Winter Warmth showcase local acts 2011-12-01T15:52:40Z

The tender, honest movie ponders the question “Where is home?” The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The police chief ponders the etiquette of returning the ring, "Or is that just adding insult to injury." Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode four 2011-02-12T22:10:00Z

It was there for the viewer, another breadcrumb to ponder, another piece of evidence to index, another link to add to our personal maester’s chain of how we think it will all end. Game of Thrones has finally, thankfully ditched the sex for good 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

This is something to ponder, and “Puddle, pothole, portal” at the elegantly expanded SculptureCenter offers a good occasion for doing so. ‘Puddle, pothole, portal’ at SculptureCenter in Queens 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Jarmusch isn’t alone in wanting a record of it, a chronology to parse and ponder. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

No spoiler alert is needed here: Dawn ends with a closeup of Caesar pondering his lot, like Old Major from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

I'll leave you to ponder that, before the solution is revealed on the radio next Saturday. Composer Arvo P?rt: Behind the beard 2011-01-06T11:53:42Z

Each time I walk past I’m reminded of the social volatility that, over the span of our own lives, we seldom stop to ponder. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Rarely does the righteous bombast of an AC/DC riff ask us to ponder our mortality. Maren Morris stands out on a stacked country bill at Fillmore Silver Spring 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

“You couldn’t tell the story of the African American experience without wrestling with difficult issues, without creating those moments where people have to ponder the pain of slavery, segregation or racial violence,” Bunch said. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Time is the element that is crucial to the making of anything, because the making of anything requires reflection, pondering what might fill this space or the next. Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

One question they ponder: Are all points of view valid? Review | Mosaic Theater’s ‘Eureka Day’ slyly takes aim at self-righteous liberalism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

We pondered, traipsing through a parking lot into the store, the practicality of the four-inch crocodile stilettos on the woman ahead of us. No Subway. No Buses. No Uber. No Problem. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Wearing a frayed newsboy cap and threadbare brown corduroy jacket, Jonathan Ames stopped and pondered the maroon-colored shirt for a moment. Up Close: Same Old, Same Old 2010-10-20T20:59:00Z

Instead of basing the musical on the jokey-thin film and sitcom scripts for previous Addams attractions, he pondered how to erect a strong plot out of a great cartoonist's pithy punch lines and visual gags. From cartoon frame to 5th Avenue Stage: 'The Addams Family' (snap, snap!) 2012-10-17T21:51:13Z

I pondered this as I dug into my current favorite breakfast sandwich, which lives at Kasama — a modern Filipino restaurant and bakery in Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood. Efficient, eatable, delicious: On building the ideal breakfast sandwich 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

And as I was pondering these unhappy questions, the phone rang. Melissa Lucashenko: 'If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget the first day I visited my daughter on that ward' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The plotless evening tends to meander, especially since Ms. Szeglowski’s choreography gets repetitive after a while, leaving the idle mind free to ponder: What is the show trying to say? Review: A Talent for Talentlessness in ‘Stairway to Stardom’ 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

I don’t have the luxury of pondering those existential questions. Motherlode Blog: The Dog Days of I.V.F. Doubt 2013-12-17T20:03:59Z

Ahead of the release of The Boss Baby on Friday, reviews pondered whether the suit-wearing baby was meant to be a version of Trump. Boss Baby's resemblances to Trump are ‘total coincidence’, film’s director says 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

And now, with their operations stalled — and, of course, there’s no telling yet of the purely practical long-range difficulties the pandemic could cause — museums should take the opportunity to ponder the great asset they share. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

He has pondered this, especially now as he has two children and a home in the San Fernando Valley. Pete Wentz Checks Out Art in Chelsea 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

After Ali was announced as the Ms Marvel showrunner, journalists began pondering aloud how such an inexperienced writer landed such a coveted job. 'I feel joy': how Bisha K Ali went from struggling standup to Marvel maestro 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Leading the big fantasy production number “Babette,” in which Lily ponders her divergent choices in art and love, Ms. Chenoweth seems to become an entire epic cast of divided selves. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

They ponder questions like “Should we treat art making as a profession?” and “Who is an author?” Pablo Helguera: ‘Strange Oasis’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

As for Mr. King, he has told friends he is too young to retire and is already pondering his next move. The ‘Consummate’ London Restaurateur Is Briskly Shown the Exit 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It ponders faces and blistered hands, and shows bottles of black fluid being extracted from workers, a consequence of pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease. Review: In ‘Behemoth,’ the Horrors of Economic Progress 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

He always started his lectures with a joke and invited his students to ponder questions such as the semiotics of an advertisement for aspirin that featured a helmeted, jackbooted, scantily clad drum majorette. Thanks, Marshall, I?think we've finally got the message... 2011-07-23T23:06:16Z

With the sky as a proscenium arch, it’s a stage that inspires us to ponder our own insignificance in the grand scheme of things, at least compared to the larger-than-life stories we tell ourselves. Making Waves: 10 Memorable Beach Scenes 2013-08-05T09:45:21Z

And listening to "Democracy" is like listening to a symphony of voices - internal and external - in which everyone belongs to a universal, uncomprehending chorus, forever pondering the unknowable creatures that we all are. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z

But one thing I learned: Each fresco has a story — many stories — to tell, merging history with present day, making me ponder, providing inspiration, creating awe. Following a trail of frescoes in the mountains of North Carolina 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

At issue is whether other beings in the universe are likely to ponder the meaning of life and the possibility of God. Critic’s Notebook: Science Channel and NASA in Marathon on Life Beyond Earth 2014-02-28T21:10:43Z

In a meadow blanketed with wildflowers and goldenrod, federal officials, families of the victims, and others gathered Saturday to ponder that question and dedicate a memorial to the crew and passengers who responded so bravely. United 93 families dedicate Sept. 11 memorial 2011-09-11T02:50:00Z

He grew up in Montgomery County, pondering what he calls his “Russian American duality,” one of the subjects of his show at Culture House DC. Review | In the galleries: Cold War ignites inspiration for Culture House DC artist 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

This special, hosted by Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, explores the cultural moment through original reporting and extensive discussions, and ponders the next steps of fighting harassment and gender inequality. What’s on TV Friday: Nas and ‘Strike Back’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Mary wonders in a rare unguarded moment, pondering the stillness of the shattered city. Chris Cleave’s ‘Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,’ about love and redemption in WWII 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

To Fossum, human relationships, the endlessly complexities of individual psyches, are the great mystery to be pondered.              Murder in mind in Karin Fossum's new thriller 'Hell Fire' 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

I’ve watched this one many times, pondering what might have been. Theater Talkback: Charles Isherwood on His Favorite Tony Performances 2012-06-07T20:15:02Z

The songs on “Hendra” mourn the deaths of family members and ponder aging and disillusionment while seeking ways to cling to hope. Ben Watt, Mournful but Optimistic, at Joe’s Pub 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Besides, he says, winning a war isn’t merely a matter of military victories — something that Romney and Obama should ponder as they consider the risks of intervening in Iran or leaving Afghanistan. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

The ersatz Ms. Streisand is only pondering the inevitable when she sings, in a nod to the best-known song from “Hamilton,” “I wanna be in the film when it happens.” Review: In ‘Spamilton,’ Broadway’s Savior Meets His Match. It’s Not Burr. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Not knowing what’s being sold leaves passersby with more to ponder than most advertisements — and more to mull over than is served up in the exhibition, where the airlessness induces claustrophobia. Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis: Why new billboard art loses its power when seen up close 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Stay tuned, as you ponder whether Mulligan's voice really is full of money. Movie news: a new "Superman," maybe no "Great Gatsby," and more 2011-02-01T18:23:05Z

Schenkkan, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer drama prize for “The Kentucky Cycle,” set out to write the equivalent of one of Shakespeare’s history plays, simultaneously revisiting the past and pondering the present. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

It valorizes cowboy toughness and grows wistful when pondering man’s alienation from nature. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

I imagined they were pondering — just as I was — the implications of what it takes to entertain a 10-year-old these days. Critic’s Notebook: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Onstage 2012-07-26T22:02:34Z

“Mr. Lincoln was President,” ponders a ghost named Roger Bevins III. “How could it be? How could it not be? And yet I knew with all my heart that Mr. Tyler was President.” George Saunders' novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is remarkable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The exhibit is an invitation to ponder the nature of the social contract, and how on earth does an institution sell that? The Square is a Caustically Elegant Satire With No Right Angles 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

They pondered: What could be more fun on a date than dipping food in molten cheese? Date Lab: They had ‘fun hair,’ fondue and a shared love of archaeology 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s a remarkably nuanced performance from Fonda, whose Ulee spends a lot of time quietly thinking through his problems and pondering his mistakes, in scenes as gripping as any shootout. Peter Fonda: 7 Great Movies to Stream 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

So I ride my nearly forgotten bike back to the entrance, head to the shuttle stop and ponder the last 12 hours. A Bologna theme park devoted to Italian food 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Journalists who gathered outside the interview room were left to ponder the title card that ended the film. Awol auteur Jean-Luc Godard sought for honorary Oscar 2010-08-27T09:18:00Z

A piece by me in today's Comment pages and on CiF ponders the unpopular question of why no British orchestra quite reaches the dizzy heights of the Berlin Phil. What would it take to create a British orchestra of the stature of the Berlin Philharmonic? 2011-02-28T09:57:48Z

Reminded of the old Bob Dylan quote about an artist always being in the “state of becoming,” Birkin ponders what that means for her at this point. Jane Birkin is back with a new album, but her presence is everlasting 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The episode ponders the longing and desire that comes with China's explosive economic growth. In 'Parts Unknown,' Anthony Bourdain is not a man on a mission 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

After years of stardom in Pop Art, he pondered his future. Andy Warhol Inc.: How He Made Business His Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

He mushed up his mouth while he pondered, his chin in the air. Five Novelists Imagine Trump’s Next Chapter 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, Haas, 24, was sheltering at home in Tel Aviv and pondering the 10 things she doesn’t want to live without. ‘The Sopranos’ and Nina Simone Sustain ‘Unorthodox’ Star 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“Every time I see his comic I read it. If nothing else it makes you ponder his point, or just laugh out loud.” A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“I put it in the back of my mind, and then I pondered for a couple of hours,” he said. A ‘Sleeper’ Discovered at Auction Tells a Very Dutch Tale 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

In the April 1991 issue, the writer Adam Platt covered Douglas Wilder, the first elected Black governor in the United States, pondering if he could be the first Black president. Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

How odd that these "imponderables" should be just the kind of thing humankind has pondered endlessly. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

And he only got stiffer as the hour progressed, while Davos pondered his next moves with a few loyalists and the mutineers went public with their treachery. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

James Lilliefors ponders weather manipulation and its potential use as a weapon in his new thriller, "The Leviathan Effect." Review: `The Leviathan Effect' disappoints 2013-03-19T15:50:20Z

Later, actor Christopher Plummer ponders how “King Lear” might have been staged in Shakespeare’s time. TV highlights: Fall Out Boy and Charli XCX on concert special ‘Super Bowl Blitz’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

I've pondered whether veganism is likely to affect mental health and if my study was ever likely to detect such an effect or test it fairly, due to it being so short. I ‘self-experimented’ to compare a vegan diet with eating meat — this is what I found out 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

I know I will be spending the week before next episode pondering if we are a nation of people who ate the chickens when we knew we should have been eating eggs. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 13: No Good, No Bad 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

New Seattle shows on the boards ponder the early years of the Beatles, portray a fantasy court trial of Judas Iscariot and satirize the American political panorama. Plays about the Beatles, religion and politics hit Seattle theaters 2012-04-05T19:30:09Z

He was still pondering them as he grew ill with a brain tumor. A new compendium of garden elements

"You'd like to think you were the same person," he ponders thoughtfully. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z

“How do I balance the laughs with the message?” he pondered to  Salon recently. WATCH: Chris Gethard on his “Career Suicide” 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ravi has the next month to sit in a jail cell and ponder the answers to those questions. Karen Klein: Bullies aren’t bad kids 2012-06-22T15:50:00Z

Fans had pondered how far MacFarlane, the impudent creator of “Family Guy,” might push the normally prim and proper Oscars. ‘Argo,’ ‘Pi’ split honors 2013-02-25T06:12:59Z

Might Nolan, who is involved in next year's Man of Steel in a "godfather" role, have pondered giving another film-maker an easy way to continue the series after all? The Dark Knight Rises: will Blake be the new Batman? 2012-07-06T15:47:21Z

With such a huge return from its $2.2 million budget, "some filmmakers have begun pondering how to replicate the film's box office miracle," Xinhua said. Star: 'Lost in Thailand' clicked with modern focus 2013-03-28T12:01:04Z

He sings about spiritual quests, ponders technology and slings Dylan-esque conundrums; he’s more circumspect. Music Review: Soul-Baring Offered Amid Glitter 2011-03-09T22:23:04Z

Lower, a historian of the Holocaust who has worked with Nazi hunters, ponders a photograph, taken in October 1941, in the once thriving, now desolate Ukrainian town of Miropol. When Genocide Is Caught on Film 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

It is easier to look back and fixate on a slightly mysterious part of your wife’s prehistory than it is to ponder the future, which will always be unknowable. Ask Amy: Husband ruminates about wife’s long-ago love 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The site also pondered whether to ask the author about what happens when Bella, human girlfriend of vampire Edward, gets her period. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer faces fan questions with fangs 2010-05-21T12:11:00Z

Or ponder in cable-news panels whether he’s turned the corner and started acting more presidential. Perspective | Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better — but history will not judge us kindly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

She ponders how much of herself she poured into the book without even realizing it. An Artist Who Explores Emotional Pain Inspires a Novel That Does the Same 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

It doesn't ask viewers to ponder a question, or look at something in a new way — it just asks them to look. 'Empty Quarter': A movie about nothingness 2011-04-07T19:09:04Z

Lost doesn't have them any more than we do, but it is to be lauded for getting us to ponder them in ways we might not have otherwise. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z

The idea of being able to transfer part of your life to your child is a very rich question to sit in the theater and ponder. Three stars for engaging 'Hickorydickory' 2011-05-16T01:07:25Z

But she left without the jumbo guitar, pondering how to afford it. Music: Beth Orton Releases ‘Sugaring Season’ 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z

I can't say we ever sat around pondering what people thought of us, no. Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this' 2012-10-11T18:00:02Z

These two shows are quite different — “Twist” mostly ponders issues of civic definition and our place therein, while “The Big Meal” is more preoccupied by existential matters that aren't glued to place. Theater: The best shows of the season 2011-03-10T20:24:53Z

For a minute or so she ponders, glumly, the import of this revelation; and then “Barbara Ann,” by the Beach Boys, starts up on the jukebox, and they begin, spontaneously, to dance. André Téchiné, Director of ‘Unforgivable’ 2012-06-24T01:23:01Z

An elegant and witty writer converses with philosophers and cosmologists who ponder why there is something rather than nothing. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z

Is your community debating an environmental policy or pondering the possibility of adding more pedestrian- or bicycle-friendly infrastructure? Parents can’t fix climate change with life hacks — but here are ways to make a real impact 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

And on the Daily Show, Trevor Noah pondered a similar question as Corden: "The big question is, what do you get the man who grabs everything for himself?" The Best Late-Night Jokes About President Trump's Birthday 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

They stand up tall in that hotel basement, and they ponder earnestly, eager not to let their colleagues on the squad down. Jake Gyllenhaal: 'End of Watch changed my life' 2012-11-08T17:01:46Z

“I think it must be a wind tunnel,” offers Mike Koschak, who has pondered this question on his own commute to work in Washington. Dear Northerners: We get that this weather is no big deal for you. Now please shut up. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

He had been pondering a “Westworld” reboot off and on since discussing the concept more than 20 years ago with Crichton, who died in 2008. Is ‘Westworld’ HBO’s Next Big Hit? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

At just 29 years old, the composer speaks from a worldly wisdom that belies his age, pondering the encroaching fears and looming responsibilities of adulthood and growing up. Wings debut "Wild Life" turns 50 with powerful vinyl reissue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

The film is loosely based on Norman Mailer’s “Ancient Evenings,”  an unpopular novel that pondered the soul states of the dead in ancient Egyptian mythology. Matthew Barney, Artist and Ex-Boyfriend, Gets Museum Show in Los Angeles 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Perhacs’s voice is still clear and guileless, and her new songs still ponder peace, love, nature and divinity. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z

"Do they know these days are golden?" ponders Garvey, adding: "Build a rocket, boys!" Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! ? review 2011-03-03T15:30:01Z

Yet the firm also ponders making more money by gutting the company and moving manufacturing to Bangladesh. Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

It exudes melancholy even as the beat fires up; it's our old friend, sad disco, something to dance to even as you ponder the vapidity and meaninglessness of frivolous self-expression. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

The location was oddly fitting for a conversation in which Kuang pondered how her novel might be received within the industry she brutally satirizes. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

But, before we start talking complacently about the "theatre boom", we should ponder both the escalating cost of tickets and the actual quality of what is in offer. This West End theatre boom is not all good news 2011-01-31T10:59:00Z

The faculty with which we ponder the world has no ability to peer inside itself or our other faculties to see what makes them tick. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

He wistfully ponders his platter, temporarily avoiding my question about his lack of nostalgia for the garage rock boom inaugurated by the Strokes’ 2001 classic “Is This It.” ‘The essence of life is kind of a nostalgia anticipation sandwich’: Philosophy 101 with Julian Casablancas 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

During the verbal stampede of “Handsome and Wealthy,” the trio pondered their own appeal: “Is it my looks? Or is it my wealth? Or is it the way that I carry myself?” Trillectro music festival proves it can keep up with the big boys

I take a second to let the red flow out of my face, and ponder what she said. When my therapist dared me to sleep with her 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

While administrators and donors ponder that question, audiences are advised to stream Still’s “Highway” while they can. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

While looking for a job to scrape up some extra cash as he ponders schools, his fake documents are exposed, throwing their family into a whirlwind. The sacrifice needed to survive in other America shines in "A Thousand and One" 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

As he sipped on his beer and pondered his fellow students’ capacity for interiority, Mr. Faus admitted he wasn’t the target audience for Ilios. A New Dating App Asks: Do Our Stars Align? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

While the city authorities ponder pigeons and picnic sites, Venice is dwindling away. Venice world heritage status under threat 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“He captures characters in motion,” Mr. Gehr added, “momentary slices of time that may make you laugh out loud while pondering their befores and afters.” Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at The New Yorker, Dies 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

But the idea is that there is this moral, ethical and scientific grey area and you're left to ponder the ideas. Dan Brown on his 'hurtful' reviews 2013-05-20T11:56:46Z

Unbeknownst to me, these same questions were being pondered by other writers staring at other laptops in disbelief. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

In January, the Independent gave the dire warning that "a new trend is sweeping social media," while the Washington Post pondered that "It’s not certain how the Tide pod fad got started." 2018 has been the longest year ever 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Matt Williams’s slack psychological thriller, “Fear,” offers plenty of opportunities not just to ponder inconsistencies and contrived plot twists, but also to sneak glances at your watch. ‘Fear’ Review: 3 Men in a Shed, 1 Missing Girl on Their Minds 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

After the third meeting with Freeh and Reno, the newspaper group retired to a coffee shop near the Justice Department and pondered the options. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

I sat in front of it and pondered the images until thirst set in and I had to hike back to the Jeep for water. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about. Q. and A. With Sean Hayes: Playing God on Broadway 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The event left some pondering the next steps for U.S. space exploration. Ken Ham wants to end the U.S. space program because aliens “can’t have salvation” 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

There's also the full-stage UK premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Wagner Dream, inspired by the fact that Wagner once pondered an opera on a Buddhist theme. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

The final participant is Loni Landon with two works, one old and a new one called “Fast Love,” which ponders modern human connection. Dance Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

All pondered some version of the question that CNN’s Erin Burnett posed to a guest less than 24 hours after the death of Iran’s Maj. The TV pundits are talking about the prospects for war with Iran, and it sounds a lot like 2003 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

Nobody will confuse the novel for a thriller; on one of their first dates, Leif and Matthew pad through the Morgan Library, pondering the Gilded Age’s excesses. Review | Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fears 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

These mediation sessions serve as entertaining parables in themselves, as Anil must ponder disputes such as one involving a shared mango tree. ‘The Golden Son’ review: An immigrant’s dilemma 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Kang originally thought to call the piece “time signature,” but when he pondered how fragmented and isolated people are, he decided what was really needed was “time medicine.” Eyvind Kang: Prolific musician searches for spiritual sustenance 2013-02-28T23:06:23Z

He also pondered removing brains from their skulls and keeping them alive in jars. Could You Transplant a Head? This Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Thought So. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Accompaniment is gradually added and regularly disappears, leaving us to ponder each note and each word in Latin. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

He also recounts the various treatments he’s been prescribed, including pharmaceuticals like Klonopin and Zoloft, and ponders what many working artists must also worry about: the effects of brain-altering medications on creativity. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Steve Coogan is pondering how his iconic comedy creation went from a sports reporter on Radio 4's On the Hour to his current big screen incarnation. The Alan Partridge film gamble 2013-08-07T07:24:12Z

Her “PH Access” ponders both the cosmos and its smallest parts. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose

Steering his story in unexpected directions, Mr. Morales uses moral depravity as the medium for pondering the allure of agency and the satisfaction of fighting back. Movie Review: ‘Graceland,’ a Manila-Set Thriller by Ron Morales 2013-04-26T01:03:11Z

I also pondered Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe at night with only the streetlights at the monument’s edges for illumination and only the security guard sharing the moment with me. Lovely summer evenings in Europe 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

These striking and beautiful photographs of snakes of all kinds will make you ponder the paradox: How can something so beautiful be so instinctively revolting? 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z

This artist will make you ponder the question. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

I sip my butter tea, sink back on the tide of incantation and ponder whether anything at all about this ceremony has changed in 500 years. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

He ponders Von Trier's experience at Cannes last year, when the director joked that he was a Nazi and found himself unceremoniously ejected from a festival that had previously clasped him to its breast. Thomas Vinterberg – back in The Hunt 2012-11-22T20:00:01Z

Economists are pondering whether the slowdown in health care costs ushers in a permanent shift in the way patients consume health care, but it is highly unlikely that the trend will reverse. These Start-Ups Can Help You Reduce Health Care Costs 2012-06-01T13:30:04Z

From its beginnings Wye Oak has pondered mortality, family and faith. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

She continues to deftly make history a personal science, persuading readers to ponder those societal yokes we've taken up to wear around our own necks. 'A Strange Stirring': Stephanie Coontz weighs the impact of Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' 2011-02-24T20:36:03Z

Clearly, the question that I often ponder is directly answered in the new Data Policy. Facebook Simplifies Data Policy To Clarify How Your Information Is Used 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

It's the kind of reading list you switch courses to avoid, but feel free to ponder it here. Nick Clegg is runaway general election victor (in bookish vote) 2010-05-05T14:34:00Z

But the main thrust is well worth pondering: Climate impacts human history. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

On clear-aired Rocky slopes, he collected specimens, pondered tangled ancestral lineages and, not incidentally, laid a foundation for the on-the-road, depopulated second half of “Lolita.” Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

We are invited to ponder relations between artifacts of mass production, technologies of reproduction and our own infinitely manipulable selves. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z

In the course of learning to still her mind long enough to watch swans, finches and herons, she begins to ponder subjects like regret, roaming, waiting, smallness. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

As ever, there were young voices at varying stages of completion to ponder and savor. Music Review: Young Voices Rise in American Opera 2011-01-16T21:42:56Z

"Seeing an old steam engine, with all of its noise, speed, thunder and smoke …" pondered Wolff, "well, that's really powerful." When that lonesome whistle blows, rail fans know where to line up 2011-03-23T20:53:00Z

Sometimes they're staring right back at us, giving us time to ponder why they look so . . . wrong. Eight trends in book cover art, from busy botanicals to women walking away 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

But Rare Book School isn’t just about pondering jaw-dropping masterpieces of printing. Rare Book School at the University of Virginia 2012-07-23T22:19:23Z

Now, as the store marks its 20th anniversary, Pearlstein is pondering these questions: How does an independent boutique like Relish continue to grow and flourish? How this independent boutique thrives in an era of fast fashion 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

He slings those in a new song, “After You Die,” a long list of similes — “like a tramp choir crying/like a campfire dying”— to ponder oblivion. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

Fans of Penguin Books – academics, collectors, readers – gathered at a conference in Bristol today to mark the 75th birthday of the publishing house, and to ponder its future. Penguin is 75 2010-06-30T18:45:00Z

There is much to ponder here about how an artist’s mind works. Gorgeous Picture Books That Reveal the Power of the Pencil 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

No explosions follow; the warheads are set adrift in space, harmlessly, and we are left to ponder what precisely is so evil about this guy. Apocalypse Now: Bryan Singer’s New “X-Men” Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

And ponder presidents past — some fictional, some not so much — in the final weekend before the election. What’s on TV Saturday: Benedict Cumberbatch Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Until this month, bank clients and passersby could ponder pieces by 10 young artists, all graduates of the Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan. Scene/Seen: Bank Diversifies Into Culture 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

The "And Just Like That Season 1" finale premiered on Feb. 3, 2022 on HBO Max, and people are already reacting and pondering a possible season 2 for the iconic gal pals. Is there going to be another season of "And Just Like That"? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bigelow's supporters and strategists were left pondering those kinds of questions. The Carpetbagger: Did Zeitlin Take Bigelow's Spot? 2013-01-10T18:53:07Z

One might also ponder the moral incongruity of Downey embracing an Oscar nomination for a performance designed to skewer such validations of reprehensible acts committed in the name of exercising one's craft. Fifteen years later "Tropic Thunder" is a flawed comedy that we're still trying to agree on 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z

They acquire Augusta, an ugly waif; kill her father; and burn down his house; Lester goes on to ponder the filmic possibilities of crucifying her. Books of The Times: David Means Colors His Stories Dark in ?The Spot? 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z

Painful recognition appears to be propelling "Mad Men" toward its final season, while leaving viewers to ponder how - or if - Don will patch up his marriage, his career and his relationship with Sally. A wakeup call heeded as `Mad Men' season ends 2013-06-24T12:43:33Z

Gallagher would go on to open Gallagher’s Paper Collectibles, one of the most influential fashion-archive shops in the world, which often lent its wares to major designers pondering their next collections. Vince Aletti’s Obsessive Collection of Seminal Fashion Magazines 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Why would Lanier’s claim threaten the “pondering” and protection of the pictures? The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Where the latter celebrates sun, lithe beauty and the latest fashion, the Gathering, hosted and founded by the Insane Clown Posse, celebrates flesh, face paint and clowns while pondering the miracles of nature. Musical talking points: Jessie J, Juggalos, JB, Miley, K. Hanna, more 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Reynolds ponders as he listens to the last track of Bowie’s final album, “Blackstar.” Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The New York Times’s chief movie critics, A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis, ponder the meaning of an apparently invincible genre. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the Modern Comic Book Movie 2012-06-27T16:13:49Z

The bartender is pondering how to use peach pits for no-alcohol cocktails. What’s a Georgia Summer Without Peaches? Not So Sweet. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

The episode did leave us pondering which is more cynical, timing a pregnancy to win re-election or timing a war to win re-election? ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Scandal' in an Election Year 2012-09-28T03:24:38Z

Now that they’ve reached the pinnacle of American politics, Frank and Claire and the rest of the country are left to ponder what kind of legacy the Underwoods will leave. 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Their Only Child 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The view is more serene in Zughaib’s “Dreaming Window,” through which a woman ponders the sea. Review | In the galleries: Works of art emerge via waking up with a word in mind 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

And as the chaos and violence escalated and rival factions formed, I amused myself by pondering who might be running the ship. ‘Voyagers’ Review: In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

That night while pondering all this in my hotel room at the Coyaba Beach Resort, I parted the curtains and looked for a full moon to turn the beach outside “flash green.” Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

I pondered this question on the way back to Port Vila, as the Cessna’s fuel gauge showed that both its tanks were almost empty. Adventures in unspoiled Vanuatu, the islands of highs and lows

He ponders anxiety and despair in simple and not especially poetic terms — the writerly equivalent of the red flannel shirt he wore on stage. Review | The War on Drugs: Layers, textures and an up-to-date take on psychedelic rock 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, she says, books should be savored, pondered and shared — over and over again. Books: If you love a book, let it go 2011-09-21T17:04:04Z

Television is not usually an arena in which you get the time to really ponder things. ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan of 'Breaking Bad' Talks About Ending the Season, and the Series 2011-10-10T03:07:01Z

She’s getting ready for a garden party while pondering a big life-or-death decision; but the bigger decision has to do with how to define her own story. 10 books to read in September 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

There are many birds and many, many thoughts for Harold to ponder. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“Who knows the ways of men,” he ponders in the sequel. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Consequently, women ponder sacrificing their emotional well-being to protect themselves from the perception of being incomplete and vulnerable without men's companionship. A feminist reckoning for six Beyoncé songs 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

Various versions of Iago’s famous “Credo” suggest that it was pondered “arduously,” she said, while “Falstaff” fans will be intrigued by drafts Verdi discarded, like the first version of the opera’s fugue finale. 5,000 Pages of Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The critics picked Kirsten Dunst as best actress for her portrayal of the main character in the film that ponders the end of the world. 'Melancholia' picked best film by nat'l film group 2012-01-08T02:51:10Z

The artist doesn’t rely on chance, however, and she’s not pondering rocks and mist. In the galleries: Attention to detail 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

There, with only an aged rat for company, he ponders the “puny catastrophe that is my life.” ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Rural China is a part of the world Americans likely ponder very little, despite being economically entwined with it. The Untold Technological Revolution Sweeping Through Rural China 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Or try two films that ponder what it means to be young and in search of yourself. At Home This New Year’s Eve (Unexpectedly)? Here’s What to Watch. 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Silicon Valley: “This seems like an odd question to ponder nearly three full seasons into ‘Silicon Valley,’” Scott Tobias writes. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Thirteen’ 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The pertinent aspect of this inquiry is that you really do ponder, at times, what you’re doing here. Review | For ‘Everybody,’ it’s not. This riff on ‘Everyman’ has archness all over it. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Instead our eyes roamed in every direction: we examined the design of various graves, pondered gilded high heels, inspected stones we would leave behind. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

You can see Burley pause as she ponders how to handle the question. A reporter’s on-air horror show 2012-10-05T19:08:00Z

Negan seems to ponder this, then takes Grimes’s axe, sticks it in his belt and drags Rick into a camper. Walking Dead season seven: fan love never dies, even if key character does 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Gabby Douglas’s announcement of an upcoming memoir made us ponder what other public figures wasted no time in inking their accomplishments. 10 Lightning-Speed Celebrity Memoirs: How Soon Is Too Soon? 2012-09-10T12:00:28Z

McFadden pondered her emotional connection to each piece of art, decor and furniture. Inspired by her own divorce, this designer has created a formula for a home that heals 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

But standing there for a while longer, I began to ponder how long it took Vermeer to capture the detailed worn masonry of the medieval buildings with such exquisite precision. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

When he’s alone in his future office, pondering his altruistic actions, Jimmy suddenly kicks the door in a rage. 'Better Call Saul' recap: Jimmy acts honorably -- and it costs him 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Ahead of the release of their fifth album Seeds, the New Yorkers are pondering fame and success in a London hotel room. TV On The Radio: Back and tuned in 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

As a philosophical layman taking on some of the most profound questions humans have pondered, Schur is, naturally, nervous about how the book will be received. Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

He is released from detention and left to ponder what lessons, if any, have been learned from one of the sorrier episodes in Vietnamese and American 20th-century history. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Sometimes poets and songwriters raise questions even the most brilliant scientists and businessmen might well ponder. Marvin Gaye, the Venona Project and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

Balancing seriousness with sarcasm, she captures the idiosyncrasies of Israeli culture and ponders the difficult questions of how Israel might pursue a peaceful and secure future. 'How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less': a whirlwind search for knowledge 2010-12-29T23:04:08Z

Countless months of tears, loneliness, late nights pondering why she didn’t just talk to me about the problems we had, really put into question whether I was just obsessed with the idea of this girl. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

With almost 100 dishes to ponder, a cheat sheet helps. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

But it is here to stay — a discomfort to be experienced, pondered and managed, not removed. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

And an oft-divorced husband ponders his wife's remarriage, to a man of similar girth but more agreeable temperament, "as if marriage were a series of corrected drafts." 'Solar': Ian McEwan's novel of a scientist seeking the light 2010-03-31T21:18:00Z

“We started pondering what other incidents would interrupt a meal so abruptly.” | Perfect Meals, Picturesquely Destroyed 2013-08-20T19:55:29Z

I wish every American pondering the frictions of our long relationship with the Saudis would read it simply to understand. The Mysteries of the American-Saudi Alliance 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

It's a procedural that doesn't just ask audiences to interpret events but also implicitly ponders the validity of interpretation in the first place. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The studio is pondering whether to continue the show with a new character and new actor replacing Sheen. Sheen strikes custody pact; police search home 2011-03-11T14:33:09Z

Where the book gets interesting is where it ponders what connectivity might mean for states and their citizens, and for conflict. The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen – review 2013-04-29T06:30:05Z

There was music to soothe, music to jolt, music to ponder and music to dance to. Big Ears Festival: 15 Performances That Soothed, Jolted and Intrigued 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

She lingers a moment at the closed door, pondering, soaking it in. Unbelievable: the quiet power of Netflix's fact-based rape drama 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

As we stood on the ferry to the Orkney Islands, watching mainland Britain disappear, we pondered the question. On the Nordic Trail in Scotland 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

They also don’t typically enjoy pondering their demise. Climate anxiety doesn’t have to ruin your life. Here’s how to manage it. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

I am pondering this as I bank down a single-track trail through a loamy forest of hardwood and pine in the hills west of Roanoke, on an overcast Monday in March 2020. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

I remember pondering the produce options at Whole Foods because every decision at the grocery store felt important, like I was protecting my child from dangerous chemicals.  My food paranoia wake-up call: The EWG wants us to be afraid of the food we feed our kids — here’s why I refuse 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

The Virginia artist combines printing, drawing and painting, mostly on Mylar, and uses multiple perspectives to ponder the industrial structure. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“We are slasher fiction and an updated version of a Victorian classic, so that in itself plays into the world of fan obsession,” he ponders. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

But the heart of each Sunday’s event — and the key information that an attendee can leave with and ponder — depends on the speaker delivering the sermon. London Series Turns Sermons Inside-Out 2010-09-07T10:00:00Z

But once you settle into its mood of uninterrupted solemnity, deepened by an eclectic classical score, it makes you ponder the ineffable. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z

Characters debate the nature of evil, ponder American exceptionalism and question the moral difference between dealing mass death in an instant and delivering destruction piecemeal. ‘An Acceptable Loss’ Review: Conspiracy Drives a Nuclear Attack in a Rote Thriller 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

And yes, of course, there are more significant issues involving racism in North America than pondering whether or not Apu is a racist caricature. Goodbye Apu – here’s what you meant to us 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Like the TVA in "Loki," "Rick and Morty" treats godly matters and incertitude as equal virtues, and makes pondering our relationship with worship as it relates to religions, systems or individuals, completely entertaining. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

In chronicling his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash., Alexie ponders his brilliant and troubled mother, a woman he deeply loved and, at times, hated. Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it's a schema well worth pondering and reflecting on. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z

Unable, despite my horror, to stop, I was unceremoniously tossed off the stage and dispatched back to my bunk, where I was left to sulk in the dusk and ponder my guilt. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

That’s why there’s often much more to see and ponder in a run-of-the-mill studio movie than in an unexceptional low-budget or Sundance movie: in the latter, apart from the aesthetic, there’s almost nothing. “Ghostbusters”: Bland, Mechanical, and Completely Worth Seeing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The author of “Under the Tuscan Sun” ponders the meaning of home while living abroad. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Moore said he pondered resigning a few years ago but stayed to manage the challenging transition after Esbjornson’s abrupt departure at the end of the 2008-09 season. Benjamin Moore will leave top Seattle Rep post in 2014 2013-09-05T01:28:38Z

Photographs show him, pencil in hand, pondering plans and gazing raptly on the model for the site. Abroad: 13th Linz Album of Hitler?s Returned to Germany 2010-05-18T23:58:00Z

The play, which won the 2012 Smith Prize for works about American politics, obliquely ponders how advances in technology are affecting the psychology of men and women in the armed forces. Theater Review: ‘Grounded,’ a Fighter Pilot’s Story 2014-01-17T22:51:49Z

Creeley's "Water Music" ponders the beauty of the sea – and the language we use to describe it. Bringing a jazz pulse to e.e. cummings and friends 2011-03-14T13:54:10Z

Musing on the reason for the bad reviews, he pondered what had shifted culturally over the past four decades. Simon Callow's critical re-appraisal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Novelists have good reason to ponder this topic: their own supposedly embattled form is now frequently discussed in cognitive terms. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

It’s also an excellent occasion to ponder ideas about toys in general in a time when electronic devices are replacing traditional, comparatively simple objects for children’s entertainment. Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Then, to fine comic effect, there is the jargon-y pondering of Dr. Watkins, who gets the town mostly wrong, judging it through a pedantic sociological lens. ‘The Dogs of Littlefield’ review: Who’s poisoning the pets in this idyllic town? 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

As he approached his centenary, Oliveira pondered lost chances and last chances, looking Death in the face while the camera rolled. Postscript: Manoel de Oliveira 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Don’t allow yourself to be rushed into ordering before you are ready, though you may want an aperitif or cocktail while you ponder. How to Buy Wine: Five Questions to Ask 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“No one knows how Houdini did the tricks. So, we pondered it and came up with our own methodology so that Lee could perform the trick,” Hardeen said. Arizona man finds magic moments in TV show on uncle Houdini 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Especially when it's something that I have a second to actually ponder. Once more into "The Good Place": William Jackson Harper on Chidi and the final season 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

She was still a teenager when she wrote it and she spent much of the album pondering the mysteries of adulthood. Laura Marling ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:48Z

It was interesting to ponder and interpret that. Gael García Bernal on the “Museo” heist and the tension between looting and preservation 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Whether either belief system offers meaningful comfort in the face of calamity is left for us to ponder. Television Review: In ‘Questioning Darwin,’ No Easy Answers 2014-02-09T20:21:21Z

When pondering younger artists who’ve publicly cited her as an inspiration, she paused and threw up her arms. Janis Ian Lets Her Music Speak Her Mind (One Last Time) 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

With just a handful of shows remaining, Ms. Winfrey said she was still pondering what to say on her last episode. Talk Show Ends, and Oprah Moves On 2011-05-22T19:52:46Z

Were it not for the "senior" in the front orchestra who Edna wanted to make sure was alive and mentally competent we might still be pondering the implications of this fascinating discovery. Dame Edna offers 'Glorious,' cheeky zaniness at Ahmanson 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But with a background score of beautiful Rodgers and Hammerstein music, they surely are enjoyable to ponder. A Doctor Checks Up on a New 'Allegro' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Writing in The New York Times, Glenn Kenny called Ms. Torun’s documentary “frequently enchanting,” even if it grows momentarily solemn toward the end, as it ponders the modernization crowding neighborhoods and cats in Istanbul. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Kedi’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

He ignores the typical crutches of the aging poet, the dying-of-the-light songs that solemnly ponder mortality. Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z

They’ve been pondering the meaning of greatness for decades, and accordingly, the temple they’ve built on Lake Erie feels a little more in sync with the tastes of the wider public. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The questions that Mann pondered during his California exile—What is the future of democracy? At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

This surreal story never resolves who the tiger is, and it remains a perfect question for anyone aged from one to 101 to ponder. My hero: Judith Kerr by Michael Rosen 2013-06-07T06:05:01Z

“Do you want to say your father was a monster?” ponders one child, now in her 50s. ‘Baby God’ Review: Sins of the Father 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

And the rats ponder the charm of squirrels. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Riverdale’ and the Return of ShondaLand 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

And the idea that major media figures — with huge influence over coverage decisions — are pondering political posts brings real questions. Perspective | With Bloomberg’s and Zucker’s campaign dreams, the media-to-politics revolving door spins faster 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Others, however, seem to have spent less time pondering the ethics of true crime. As Making a Murderer returns, is the obsession with true crime turning nasty? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“What does the well-dressed man wear for a blind date with his father’s friend’s mistress at the Everyman Cinema in Belsize Park?” he ponders. Review | John le Carré left behind a novel, ‘Silverview.’ Does it live up to the spy master’s reputation? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, here's three things I've been pondering over the past few days, and a guide to the rest of the intense, sprawling news coverage of the event. South by Southwest Interactive: Games, social good and scale 2011-03-17T17:42:08Z

It is a chance to ponder just why these five “boys,” who range in age from 19 to 21, are pegged as the new Justin Biebers. Movie Review: ‘One Direction: This Is Us,’ Documentary by Morgan Spurlock 2013-08-29T21:53:09Z

Christ sat for a long time in the cold wind, pondering on what the stranger had said. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

Along the way, it examines culture clash; alludes to modern Chinese history; and ponders the costs of caution and courage, patience and impatience. Review | Full-court banter and intensity mark a gripping ‘Great Leap’ at Round House Theatre 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Tolomeo, excitingly sung and vigorously acted by the incisive countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, pondered his life’s currents while peering into a goldfish bowl, with a swordfish dangled overhead. Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass 2010-08-09T22:43:00Z

The painting, an original study for the work called “Tough Call,” shows three umpires pondering whether to halt a game as raindrops begin to fall. 'Print' on Texas family wall is original Rockwell, sells for $1.6 million 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

He went back and reread such core U.S. documents as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and The Federalist Papers, and spent time pondering key events in American history. The story behind the new book 'We Are America' 2011-05-28T03:13:05Z

A lot in “Southwest” is unexplained and left for the viewer to ponder. Movie Review: ‘Southwest,’ From Eduardo Nunes 2013-01-16T22:50:59Z

But Keaton also digs deep to ponder and contrast two distinct generations of American women — their differing options, choices, temperaments and the family ties that bound them. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z

Yet it doesn’t dilute the painful pleasure of what precedes it or the lingering, exquisite memory of these awkward, lovably unlovable creatures pondering forlornly how they might remember the way they were. ‘This Is Our Youth’ Stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

But her gift is to never ponder too long on life’s woes. Four gimmick-free memoirs 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Watching "I Know This Is True" invites those of us keeping up with the latest TV releases to ponder how much prestige series productions worship tragedy – violent, miserable, and plain old funky. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

How history will judge him for his abstinence remains to be seen, but until then, there are 44 other imbibers-in-chief to ponder. What Makes a President Great? Clipping? Sipping? Slashing? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

We have ascribed to the genre certain flattening traits—a degree of self-absorption, a preoccupation with authenticity, the presence of a writer as a protagonist—that can seem like so much “idle pondering.” The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Here, you might ponder the meaning of “ultraviolet.” This Exhibition Will Help You Make Sense of Your Senses 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

They leave you pondering: Where did rock ’n’ roll really take us? At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z

In the chromatic haze, Solange ponders questions and considers life lessons in a few ambiguous words. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t really planned in advance, pondered for weeks of grave soul-searching and decisions, time spent contemplating how to share the news with friends and family members. How a six-month separation saved our marriage 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

It becomes more interesting when he ponders the “criticism” section on his Wikipedia page and, toward the end, when the film shifts its emphasis to consider the broader political context of Ukraine. Review: ‘Almost Holy’ Demonstrates a Pastor’s Tough Love for Street Kids in Ukraine 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Rogers believes that as our reliance on technology increases, plays pondering that relationship will become more common. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

She said she pondered careers as a classics professor or lawyer, but found sexism too pervasive in academia and the law. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shirley Ann Grau dies at 91 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

It wants you to ponder just why anyone would want to work the fields of the giant farms that are so important to the United States economy. Review: ‘American Crime’ Fixes on Migrant Dreamers in the Fields 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Journalists and pundits love to ponder about how the public is reacting to news, though they aren’t much good at it. Perspective | Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

The next scene, “Gloria at the Pond,” is a ruminative aria in which the pig ponders her reflected beauty but also its societal costs. ‘Gloria — A Pig Tale’ Brings Opera to the Met Museum 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

As he pondered the statue, his wife muttered, "It's ugly, really ugly, very ugly." Vatican slams new pope John Paul sculpture 2011-05-20T12:50:09Z

The lyrics ponder whether maturity brings resolve or inevitable decline, but the music promises not to mellow too much. Review: Hot Chip’s ‘Why Make Sense?,’ Rooted in Dance Music’s Past but of the Now 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Why, he complains about his interview subjects, “did everyone but me seem to find caffeinated beverages more conducive than alcohol to pondering the mystery of existence?” Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z

The room was cozy, quiet and felt 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the club, which made one ponder what the fur’s texture and odor could become a few weeks after opening. A Club for Aerialists and Clowns Moves to Manhattan 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s fascinating to imagine the president — present or former — being required to ponder, and perhaps to enact, that word each day. Emily Dickinson, British Abolitionism and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

A walk through this lively zone turns up artifacts and monuments that ask travelers to ponder the huge loss of culture, knowledge and humanity during the Holocaust that took place between 1938 and 1945. How to feel the spirit at pilgrimage sites in Europe 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

He hadn’t protested this limit, but now he seemed to be pondering, as I was, just how far he was allowed to traverse. Finding God in a Hot Slice of Pizza 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“A lot of songs are complicated — lots of chords and melodies playing all over the place,” StoneBridge said, pondering his remix’s impact. Beyoncé’s ‘Break My Soul’ and the Long Tail of ‘Show Me Love’ 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the sketch, a dramatically lit Stewart ponders in Shakespearean English “whether ‘tis the second letter of the alphabet, or some other merry letter.” 11 of the Most Memorable Celebrity Guests on 'Sesame Street' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

But in the meantime, there is quite a lot to see and to ponder in this rendering, which was first shown at Cannes in May with the subtitle “Them.” ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,’ by Ned Benson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

To coax her Harvard sophomores to ponder whether we can truly know another person, she assigned Julian Barnes’ novel “The Sense of an Ending.” What is biography? Who can be trusted? asks Jill Lepore in 'Joe Gould's Teeth' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Ibeyi also sang a remake of a song by the rapper Jay Electronica, “Better in Tune With the Infinite,” that ponders loneliness and determination. Review: Ibeyi, Twin Sisters and a Duo, Uses Songs to Show Roots 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Chronicle” is not the only current show to ponder questions of guilt and interconnectedness while drawing on classic literature. GALA Theatre weaves a swift and taut ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Wrangham has been pondering this paradox in the twenty years since the publication of “Demonic Males,” and he has the first draft of an explanation. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Friends and associates say he is floating ideas, pondering timelines and examining whether there is a way for him to step back into his career, at least in some fashion. Disgraced by Scandal, Mario Batali Is Eyeing His Second Act 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

While you're pondering that, let's look at what Parquet Courts have to offer. New band of the day – Parquet Courts (No 1,442) 2013-01-30T18:17:10Z

Here, she ponders this thing we call the mind from a dazzling variety of perspectives. Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Congregants laughed and cheered and sang and enthusiastically pondered their way through the morning. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z

On a balmy night in April, I sat pondering that dark time with my wife and two of our daughters on the terrace of Ba” Ghetto, a lively restaurant near the Portico d’Ottavia. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z

Remember, The I Files is way more accurate than “The X Files,” but can still make you ponder the meaning of it all. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z

For one song, “Anyhow” — which pleads, “I know you can’t forgive me/But forgive me anyhow” — a rhythm was tapped on a fedora, a sound Mr. Cohen and Mr. Leonard pondered. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z

Upon observing a sign calling for the death of the Greek system, he naïvely ponders how “nice” it is to see that a purportedly progressive environment could harbor an institution so reviled. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

While you ponder that, how might North-South have gotten into the bidding at the other table? Bridge: Bridge: 7th Asia Pacific Bridge Federation Championships 2012-10-07T21:38:04Z

Noah pondered the question for a moment and then spoke. Bulls look to rebound without Rose 2012-04-29T14:35:00Z

Sooner or later, however, they arrive at a line for him to ponder. Music Review: James Blake Sings With Piano at Terminal 5 2013-05-08T21:01:49Z

She spent time pondering questions like, if a person were 300 years-old, would they remember their parents. When vampires become friends, "Let Me In" 2010-10-01T16:28:00Z

It was in his voice, a reedy, quavering high tenor that could sound like he was pondering every line he sang. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, posts on the dragon Viserion’s blue flames, memes on the hookup of fictional characters Jon Snow and Daenerys and chatter about potential battle strategies indicate that there is plenty to ponder. Can "Game of Thrones" teach us about the meaning of life? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The deputy culture secretary at Paris city hall made two excellent points today as he pondered the theft of five ludicrously valuable paintings from the French capital's Musee d'Art Moderne. Paris art thief appears more no-frills than thrillseeker 2010-05-20T16:59:00Z

He pondered for a moment, then said, “I think that’s absolutely monstrous. Next question.” What “Hamilton” in San Juan Means to Puerto Rico 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Simple concepts but ones I had never pondered before. Finding a Warm Welcome in the Elqui Valley 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

But there was little urge to discuss their finer plot points, ponder their mysteries and catalogue, cross-reference and analyse their stories as there seems to be now. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Especially since at the time it didn't seem nearly as extraordinary as it became, the older I grew and the more I pondered it. The Color Purple: A story of thanks 2013-07-12T18:30:00Z

“I was totally broke. So I didn’t have time to sit around pondering or thinking all this through. It was just done on a basic pure survival level. I did what I had to do.” The rage of Van Morrison and the battle behind his masterpiece, ‘Astral Weeks’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

I know the questions we’re pondering are much less weighty than suicides in the family: I’m pretty sure that the woman swimming laps next to me at the Y is urinating in the pool. Social Q?s: Social Q?s Looks Back on Its Questions and Answers 2011-11-04T20:34:33Z

“I am not sure,” Trollope writes, “that marriage may not be pondered over too much.” Review: Money-Hungry Women Scheme for a Better Life in ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Describing the book as "a dialogue between his life and mine", writing a memoir is something which Carver, 65, has been pondering, collecting notes and setting down memories, ever since her father died in 1993. William Golding's daughter reveals his 'darker side' in new book 2010-09-19T16:25:00Z

It’s vaguely diverting to stare at Alita’s face, at least at first, to ponder its shape, texture and pale color, and the way that her brow furrows when she’s being emphatic. ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Review: Do Female Cyborgs Dream of Breasts? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The phrase “the next four years” repeatedly came up as experts pondered the impact Trump’s victory could have on reality TV: What will viewers want to watch? Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Fans have pondered how far MacFarlane the impudent creator of "Family Guy," might push the normally prim and proper Oscars. Waltz wins supporting-actor prize for 'Django' 2013-02-25T02:06:10Z

A study of a Flemish mastiff, its legs tense and its head warily raised as if pondering whether to growl at some invisible character was credited to the 17th century Antwerp artist Jan Fyt. Auctions: Charles Ryskamp: The Collector Who Liked to Be Amused 2011-01-28T12:30:07Z

The tumble into insolvency has left officials pondering the likely fallout. Update: As Detroit Flounders, Its Art Scene Flourishes 2013-08-06T21:07:06Z

Some of Fortier's children ponder whether they get their coolness in social situations from him. HBO's unflinching "Baby God" corrects pop culture's tendency to treat fertility fraud lightly 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

The revelation of which was treated as if it were a breaking news event, and then pondered with panicked optimism for months. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

I’m just a comedienne who ponders insignificant slights and the miracle that any of us survive childhood, even though, in the larger scheme of things, our woes are minor hiccups in the ever-expanding universe. Annabelle Gurwitch on family — the one you're born with, and the one on your book cover 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

The sky — with its endless variations of clouds and light — dominates Adams' luminous landscapes, which ask the viewer to linger awhile and ponder the enormity depicted in them. 16 top entertainment picks for June 24-30, 2012 2012-06-20T22:35:04Z

Even if a preteen is comfortable pondering the book's themes, parents would be smart to have a post-screening discussion with their child. 'Hunger Games' pits book gore against movie gore 2012-03-22T06:06:26Z

I sip my butter tea, sink back on the tide of incantation and ponder whether anything at all about this ceremony has changed in 500 years. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

In the novel, Otto and Anna ponder their own isolation and wonder at the reach of their resistance. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

Zeno ponders this insight later in life as he watches his cast during the rehearsals for his play. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Like many people in media, Ray is pondering how to best integrate print and TV outlets to suit changing times. Rachael Ray still stirring the pot as everywoman 2010-10-21T16:23:00Z

Instead of pondering your ideal occupation long and hard, Krznaric says, just pick something. Secret to happiness: “I want this job for a week” 2013-05-01T14:07:00Z

Marked Andante religioso, the “Méditation” is played as the title character ponders giving up her life as a courtesan to enter a convent. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z

It occasionally ponders life’s complexity with wide-eyed, youthful earnestness. Review: ‘The Future for Curious People’ by Gregory Sherl

He forms friendships, falls and ponders retirement in love in this European idyll, but violence and danger are never far away. The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

Even so, the film’s sophistication creates space for us to ponder deeper, unanswered questions. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z

I pondered this when watching “Independence Eve,” an hour-long opera about race in America, which UrbanArias presented at the Signature Theatre on Sunday afternoon. Review | Tackling race in opera — at center stage 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s fun to ponder the complications of Gibbons’ sometimes ungraspable but very entertaining play, which presents disturbing ethical dilemmas that may not be as futuristic as we would wish. The 34-year-old man who happens to be a robot: Welcome to 'Uncanny Valley' 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Via Firth's Stanley Crawford, a supercilious Brit known to the world as Wei Ling Soo — famous Chinese conjurer, great debunker of psychic mediums — the film ponders the possibility of an afterlife. 'Magic in the Moonlight' is an amusing trifle of a film 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Most significant, the play ponders instances and ramifications of watching and being watched. ‘Grounded’ at Studio Theatre: A new view of drone warfare

Is it a dumb statement by a spaced-out hippie or a riddle worth pondering? Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z

As with the three glimpses of the rose in the Lecturer’s show-and-tell, the play ponders a single phenomenon from wildly different vantage points. Gala’s ‘Yo También Hablo de la Rosa’ punctuates its social commentary with humor 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

I try to be straight up, to not ponder or obsess or agonise. My week as Bette Davis: 'My fierce brows are begging to be raised' 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

You ponder why “Gatsby” the novel wasn’t an immediate success, and why Fitzgerald, weary and sodden, died at 44 believing himself to be a failure and his work forgotten. Will Baz Luhrmann's noise dampen ‘Great Gatsby’s’ joys? 2013-05-01T18:43:00Z

Industry swamis will doubtless ponder the bitter tea leaves and propose themselves as career-management counselors to Cruise, dreaming up ways to recapture his star wattage. Box Office Weekend: Pixar's Toys Beat Sandler's Boys 2010-06-27T14:25:00Z

But there I was, pondering the answer while hovering outside a maximum security prison. His first run outside: 27 miles from prison to home 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

Two questions to ponder when contemplating "Devo: The Men Who Make The Music," an archival collection of films and performances that just came out. Throwbacks: New old sounds from Devo, No ID, Who, Jesse Saunders, more 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

That means there's something to be pondered in the widespread impulse among the "Ted Lasso" faithful to replay the entire season right after they've seen it for the first time. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

This is about a man's sense of wonder as he ponders being a self-contained being in a vast universe. James L. Kugel's 'In the Valley of the Shadow' eyes death, faith 2011-03-03T00:39:04Z

This exploit began as I pondered current trends in pastry. The natural way to color food purple 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

Two mettlesome productions from feminist-leaning companies are pondering hard realities in the lives of modern women. Review | Two feminist plays ponder modern lives 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

After retiring from a career in marketing and communications at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the bilingual Stiteler pondered a move to Mexico. A new museum in the Yucatán celebrates the traditional clothing of Mexico 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

One photo, “Shadow Shadowed,” ponders the marred, perhaps wooden exterior of — what exactly? In the galleries: A photographer’s accident yielded artistic results 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Where Dawaun contemplates archetypes, Paz ponders her own history, notably by pairing snapshots of her youth with photos of herself in the same place or situation, roughly two decades later. Review | In the galleries: Paintings reflect light’s luminous effects 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Six months ago, when the City Ballet board began pondering a successor to the outgoing chairman, Mr. Lipp suggested Mr. Fishman. City Ballet Board Names Jay S. Fishman as Chairman 2012-06-13T22:14:18Z

He ponders the question a full 10 seconds. Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’ 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The men eventually start adopting some of each other's habits, as Villeneuve — who previously directed last year's stylish mystery/suspense picture "Prisoners" — plays up the surrealism and the philosophical pondering of Saramago's story. 'Cold in July' starring Michael C. Hall entertains in all its genres 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

A whole section is devoted to Nijinsky, allowing you to ponder how a dancer whose jump became world famous could defy gravity in costumes so heavy and ornate. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

She would ponder the passage of time while mesmerized by birds “darting in all directions,” or a fountain’s flow that “splashes up, the drop in endless formations.” These Books Move Heaven and Earth 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Allow me to pause for a moment to say I do not identify as a hardcore Trekkie or Trekker; nor am I moved to ponder the difference between those definitions. “Star Trek” seeks out new life for Jean-Luc Picard: Why he’s the captain we need now more t... 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

It’s such a revelation to these people that they truly ponder it. How to Squeeze a Feminist Farce Into an English Country House 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

While you ponder the possibility of Blue Ivy dancing around in a platinum blond wig, we'll be off pondering who else is the more famous and successful: the Goop founder or the toddler. Gwyneth Paltrow loves Blue Ivy and having pals in the public eye 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But there are tangential questions well worth pondering: If movie culture reflects who we are, then who the hell are we? The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Layla is left asking why her community was denied the privilege Americans are promised, and pondering the cost of freedom. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

They ponder, stew, obsess and spin out scenarios for comedic effect. Brains Behaving Badly: Why So Many Comedians End Up Self-Destructing 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Even a fiction writer couldn’t dream up a scenario in which the president would ponder the benefits of injecting bleach into our bloodstreams. 10 books to read in May 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Can we laugh about all this bloodshed, all this darkness around us, the torture, the misery?” he pondered. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Two boys, lying on their backs inside a great wooden sphinx, pondering life’s riddles. Brian Selznick’s Lockdown Masterpiece 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Eye in the Sky” features a riveting final screen performance from Alan Rickman, as a military officer pondering a drone strike. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Gilman pondered, reporting another landslide in 1929, when the Franck beat Beethoven’s Fifth, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth and Sixth, and Brahms’s First. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The student leaves, too enmeshed in his torment to imagine a future beyond it, and the narrator is left to ponder “how much we lose in gaining this truer vision of ourselves.” Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Though Hawkes clearly isn’t wasting any time pondering what that a win might be like. Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions 2012-10-17T12:00:39Z

As I pondered what to write next, I felt a warm, settled, comforting feeling in the pit of my stomach. Is gratitude the secret of happiness? I spent a month finding out 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

In its best episodes the show challenges the common entertainment dualism delineating good and evil and heroes and villains, additionally leading one to ponder which lessons parents should pass down to their kids. In its third season, "Cobra Kai's" one-note villain knocks it off its game 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

In his Week in Geek blog, Ben Child pondered suggestions that Joseph Gordon Levitt's character Blake may be being primed to step into the Caped Crusader's shoes – where, exactly, can Batman go now? Close up: The Dark Knight also Rises 2012-07-12T16:11:20Z

The Park Service has been pondering whether to raise it ever since; at low tide its boxy superstructure and snub-nosed decks long protruded above the waterline. Antiques: Eames Trove to Be Sold at Wright Auction House 2010-04-01T22:41:00Z

Hip-hop throbbed from the speakers as guests pondered their place on the city’s grid. Scene City: The Whitney Heads Downtown 2011-05-26T15:33:49Z

You should also ponder why you want to try to continue a friendship with her. Perspective | Ask Amy: House and friendship are both on the market 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t totally clear but there wasn’t time to ponder it. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 6 Recap: A Tough Week for Daryl 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Wedding a fictional creation is an extremely serious issue, and one I've pondered before. Want to marry a fictional character? You could do so much better 2013-03-06T12:07:18Z

Forster’s classic 1910 novel “Howards End” to modern New York, where a group of young, ambitious men ponder their existence and the previous generation’s legacy. American-themed plays sweep British theater prizes 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

A budding intellectual, Lexie ponders how romance aligns with the theory of probability: Her graph of the relevant variables, in a notebook, displays her mother’s dating failures in brutal plunging lines. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

That's not to say that death is irrelevant here, though it is fun to ponder the role it plays in the scheme of things. The Existential Nature of 'Lost' 2010-05-24T19:32:00Z

“High Fidelity’s” other obsession — record collecting — is an obvious misfit in the Spotify age, which the show doesn’t stop to fully ponder or, better yet, use as a means to fan an argument. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Is there a mental-health danger to pondering this for too long? Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

I am pondering these questions, and I trust you have the answers. From the time Trump's tweets disappeared to David Davis's Brexit diary: satirists take on the news 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

These were Tuchman’s topics, and now, in our own time, we are forced to ponder the why, the how, the what and the who about America in the Age of Trump. Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

As a literary critic for the past 13 years, it's not a question I've liked to ponder too much. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

The word that pops to mind whenever I ponder Frankly . Frankly . . . Pizza! tosses pies that reach for perfection (and come close) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Instead, she ponders ways to spin fictional mass shootings into political assets and throws her cellphone on the ground in disgust after her staffers fly her to the wrong Iowa town. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Veep’ and ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

You might draw comparisons with today's political cartoons or you might ponder the relationship between the individual and society. Art review: Prints at SAM are disturbing, funny, moving 2010-04-15T20:49:00Z

Comics that ponder the absurdity of human behavior by viewing everyday life through the eyes of aliens. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Still, I buy a bottle of vitamin B6 at CVS on my way home, pondering Wolf’s dark angel all the way. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Society took to its keyboards to ponder what kind of lesson the now-underweight teacher from Minnesota had given us. Who’s really losing on ‘The Biggest Loser’? 2014-02-19T22:08:55Z

But it’s hardly surprising that many of the works ponder environmental degradation. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

But Pietro was killed off at the end of that film, and as a shaken Wanda continued on through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wondering if she really fit in, Olsen pondered the same question. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pumhösl’s reasons for drawing inspiration from such an unlikely artifact remain obscure, but it’s interesting to ponder the connections between two myth-saturated realms: that of the Holy Land and that of high art. Art Trek: A Critic’s Guide to the Best of the Lower East Side 2014-04-03T22:41:10Z

As you ponder life's most pressing question — how long does cooked chicken actually last in the fridge? — let's take a deeper look at the facts. How can I tell if my chicken's gone bad? 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Working, for me, keeps me distracted and keeps me from pondering the ultimate end to all of this, which is the same for all of us,” he says. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The film, which makes multiple leaps in time, follows their interactions over the years as they ponder the romance that might have been but wasn’t. Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Philosophers have long emphasized that much anxiety results from pondering life’s mysteries and uncertainties, as in angst about the inevitability of death and the meaning of existence. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z

“Interviews mumbled and blotted, the simplest of earnest rehearsed queries lost and pondered and lost again … The endless noisy boredom of the tour.” Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

If there's anything left to ponder, maybe it's whether these people will get what they deserve, what that means, and whether that matters. Buoyed by Bill Hader's confident directing, "Barry" saves its best hits for last 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

“This journey will take you through twists and turns that will ultimately cause you to ponder the reality of life beyond the grave,” our guide said. Welcome to a Texas hell house, where wayward Christians are scared straight 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Either way, the film forces the viewer to ponder what criminal profiling and pre-emptive sentencing does to the social fabric. TV’s most conservative show isn’t on Fox News: This new cop show glorifies everything Bill O’Reilly holds dear 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Often, late at night, my classmates and I pondered the dour logic of specialization. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

Darko ponders these issues as he lights a joint, and slowly, with clever intuition and careful police work, homes in on the solution to the case. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

Called the Zip Code tour, the summer jaunt offers the band yet another opportunity to ponder real life issues in song. Rolling Stones open 2015 tour with sold-out gig at San Diego's Petco Park 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

A few scenes pondering the effects of consumerism attempt a clunky counter argument, but for the most part this gesture at critique merely slows down the narrative. The opulence and drama of the Asian jetset in 'China Rich Girlfriend' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Naturally, they talk God and philosophy — a feature also of Cross' "Luther," another series in which cops and criminals ponder the nature of good and evil. TV Picks: Pirates, a painter, prisoners and people of Broadway 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Once I got over pondering the fates of the individual characters and focused on them collectively, I fixated on the show's really metamessage. The Existential Nature of 'Lost' 2010-05-24T19:32:00Z

As a psychiatrist, as a popular culture enthusiast, and as a teller of zombie tales, I must admit that I've pondered this particularly bizarre phenomenon a good deal. Americans love zombies because they remind us of the Wild West 2013-02-11T14:15:00Z

Although the exhibition ended last year, the five purchased paintings will remain on the walls around campus, perhaps enticing students to pause and ponder, said Moore, and to him, that is the ultimate “thank you.” Portraits on campus lacked diversity, so this artist painted the blue-collar workers who ‘really run things’ 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

From there he takes out the trash, makes espresso in “the Italian stovetop thing” and ponders chores domestic and professional: graphic design, club bookings, pest control, how much it will cost to fix the van. Kevin Gordon Releases ?Gloryland,? His First Album Since 2005 2012-02-21T17:04:15Z

In the process, he ponders gentrification, race relations, tabloid news and more. Dance Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

His light-hearted remarks followed David Bowie's more earnest plea for unity at this week's Brits, an episode that led some to ponder the wisdom of celebrities involving themselves in political affairs. Film festival not immune from independence debate 2014-02-23T12:23:46Z

In “Edge of a Revolution,” frontman Chad Kroeger ponders what he sees as the government’s dependence on “mass confusion” to distract us from its wrongdoing. Nickelback's 'No Fixed Address': Is anyone really listening? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

While luxuriating in the simulated pine barren, the visitor might ponder how to preserve real ones. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s also distracting: As you ponder what, exactly, is off about this not-human-enough figure—something in the facial movements—you begin to lose track of the plot. Let's Talk About Grand Moff Tarkin in 'Rogue One' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

It was only after the call ended that she began to ponder a note that still makes her flinch: “One concern – family doesn’t know / husband doesn’t know.” Why I conducted a 16-year ‘affair’ with my mother 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

The stories are now familiar, but they’re so densely written and intricately drawn, so sweeping and rich with incident and ideas, there’s always something new to ponder and appreciate. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some rock critics have pondered how the course of ‘70s rock might have been altered if only “The Modern Lovers” had been released in 1973. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Either way, the profusion of precedents in these works decreases the incentive to ponder such questions. Art in Review: IDA EKBLAD 2011-10-06T20:59:39Z

A few times we had pondered driving out to the coast, or maybe into San Francisco for the day . . . but the money required to fill the gas tank was galling. Motherlode Blog: Losing the Family Car 2011-10-04T19:05:02Z

One can only ponder the might-have-beens had Jimmy not been called up to the Big Sky Orchestra early. Readers recommend: songs with the best bass lines – results 2012-10-11T12:35:46Z

Only the other day I was pondering this very topic, brought on by the fact that my phone hadn’t rung for five days. My family is great, but I feel as though I have no real friends | Dear Mariella 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

As we learned more about cicadas, I pondered what I saw as their odd, grim lives. Perspective | My son loved the cicadas. I’m finally ready to love them again. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

“I probably should have thought that my fear of heights may have affected my ability to do this,” pondered Helen, as she swam through the canyon’s fresh stream, face white and heart pounding. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

As the pages grow larger, and earlier compositions are cleverly repeated, the reader is asked to ponder a series of questions: “Who will you meet next month?” Mac Barnett Reviews Picture Books About Time and Space 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

He would observe the conflicts between his father and great uncle and ponder "the essence, the meaning, the worldview of both religions." Agent: Author Chinua Achebe dies at 82 2013-03-22T12:37:10Z

Tribune editors spoke glowingly of Schmich's ability to write with style and depth, avoiding cliches while identifying and pondering the emotions that drive people in everyday, or extraordinary, moments. Tribune's Mary Schmich wins Pulitzer Prize 2012-04-17T04:08:00Z

Would you rather ponder — and maybe gripe about — the assumptions that encourage high-concept Shakespeare makeovers? What do you get when you mash up Shakespeare and sci-fi? ‘Fear.’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Get Home finds him stumbling home from a club, pondering the meaning of it all: it paints him as quite the bar-room philosopher. Bastille – review 2013-03-13T13:37:18Z

You want to reveal, point by point, the lack of oversight that made that possible, and ponder why she still has a job? The media’s eternal sexism around Lara Logan 2014-05-06T14:25:00Z

From the start, with its debut album, “Funeral,” in 2004, Arcade Fire has pondered matters of life and death, community and solitude, memory and modernity, justice and spirituality. On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

As the clock strikes midnight, Jade leaves Chris pondering his future and her giant glass slipper. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Prince Farming Goes Camping With Cinderella 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

You could sit and ponder all this during the concert, or you could simply wallow in the rich, powerful playing Mr. Adams’s jutting thrusts and broad-armed swoops elicited from Juilliard’s assured players. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

Heading northwest along the river, stop in one block to ponder the moving Idaho Anne Frank Memorial, at the end of Eighth Street. Brew-ha-ha: Biking to breweries in Boise 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Wherever mortal beings are thoughtful about their mortality, and finite beings ponder their finitude, at whatever level of intellectual articulation, there is philosophy. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the spring of 1994, Hillary Clinton was pondering how she would be remembered. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Picking up about eight years after the original run ended, the new trailer shows the girls pondering their new lives but sticking to traditions, like marathon-eating of questionable food and Friday night dinners with Emily. The 'Gilmore Girls' Netflix Revival Trailer Is Finally Here 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Much of fashion — whether its designers are pondering it or not — divides along tribal lines. Paris Fashion Week Collections from Kenzo, Isabel Marant and Acne 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams has written about his concerns about our changing ecology, and has lately been pondering a line attributed to the French Romantic writer Chateaubriand: “Forests precede civilizations, and deserts follow.” Review: A Pulitzer Sequel for Orchestra, Packed With Drama in Microcosm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The eager-to-please quality undercut the fact that she was uttering base truths that, pondered routinely, would likely keep us from functioning happily in the world. | Young Jean Lee’s Goofy Pop Existentialism 2013-06-26T18:14:31Z

This year, however, all usual bets are off as theaters ponder not just their fall seasons, but what exactly constitutes a season — as opposed to an assemblage of ad hoc programming. Theater to Stream: Catty Birthdays and ‘Lessons in Survival’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

The novel hooks the reader with its first sentence: “In the main ward of the great hospital Lafala lay like a sawed-off stump and pondered the loss of his legs.” Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Two more songs ponder what it takes for a rocker to persevere. New Albums From Weezer, Sam Amidon and Rich Gang 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

He returned to his parents’ home in Brazil, and pondered other career pathways in music. After 15 years, musician makes miraculous comeback 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In his subsequent stand-up career, he has often addressed issues of race from his perspective as a white comic entrenched in black culture, as well as pondering subjects like relationships and sex. A Word With: Neal Brennan 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Now on disc from Kino Lorber, it anxiously ponders both the threat of nuclear war and the survival of the nuclear family. J.F.K. at Dawn’s Early Light of Reality TV 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Schmidt pondered what kind of message it sends to girls later in life if they were forced to sit on Santa’s lap as a child. Washington Post ponders if kids should sit on Santa’s lap amid #MeToo movement 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

I pondered him being in charge of the money. How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Join me at noon for a live chat; we’ll ponder all of these topics and more. Live chat rewind: All about the Oscar nominations 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mattos gazed at the statue and seemed to ponder the significance of its hovering a few steps away from his latest enterprise. Estela Partners Aim to Make Lightning Strike Twice 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the cast and crew had been pondering such things too. Behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s Love Actually: Andrew Lincoln’s creepy cards return 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Thinking about art as ransom, for instance, you may find yourself pondering the fate of objects in the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection. Three Solo Shows at SculptureCenter in Queens 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

He’s a man who drags his conscience around with him like a dead leg, but could take out an entire Isis cell one-handed while pondering non-Euclidean geometry if he put his mind to it. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Then there’s the food: Portsmouth is blessed with an absurd selection of restaurants, cafes and ice cream parlors to ponder. 36 Hours in Portsmouth, N.H. 2013-08-01T11:49:43Z

He pondered for a beat, then added: “And other world leaders. And, ultimately, history.” Stephen Colbert Tells Rex Tillerson: ‘Nobody Calls Our President a Moron Except Me’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Something else she says is: “Some things defy pondering.” Sarah Paulson on relationships, her Emmy win and female beauty standards 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Naked Nudeby Frances Borzello Buy it from the Guardian bookshop Search the Guardian bookshop Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book This is an issue art critics too have pondered. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

In fact it was Mr. Renzi’s affinity for the philosopher that really piqued my interest in pondering Machiavelli’s Florence today. In Tuscany, Following the Rise and Fall of Machiavelli 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

So I pulled up a map of South America and pondered. A Winding, Watery Way to the World Cup 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

We pondered the random people from our past who appeared in them, and we speculated on whether we existed in their dreams. The 150-mile bike trail from Maryland to Pennsylvania puts the cares of 2020 behind you 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

We even went canoeing in Portland’s Casco Bay with dear college friends and pondered moving to the area for good. On the Maine island of Islesboro, searching for a spider she wasn’t sure was real

In long, quiet stretches, I’ve pondered similar puzzles, such as the engineering of road curves along a cliff. John Steinbeck’s classic travelogue showcases man’s best road trip buddy 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

I’m not sure it’s a complaint, perhaps it’s just an observation, but in any event it might be worth writing about, or at least pondering. Motherlode Blog: Scaring, and Scarring, Parents-to-Be 2011-08-15T19:34:38Z

In establishing this as a refrain that echoes through each season, “Fargo” is striking a bargain with its audience, asking viewers to ponder the nature of truth. In “Fargo,” the fight for truth and justice is a woman’s game 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

As I pondered this list, I came very close to putting "Guardians of the Galaxy" at the top as the best MCU movie released so far. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

As male love interests in films that will be seen mostly by female audiences, they do important work in helping girls and young women ponder and define their own romantic ideals. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer

Thankfully, I have a lovely son whom I love very much, but in darker moments I do sometimes ponder whether the resulting disability was worth it. 'My teeth moved so much I needed braces' – readers on how childbirth changed them 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

But even now, I kind of ponder and meditate and pray before I speak. Q&A: Nick Cannon on talk show, overcoming backlash last year 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

While those in the film industry ponder how to better reflect the diversity of human experience in their scripts, at Lucasfilm, a small group of women and men may have found one answer. The Women Who Run the ‘Star Wars’ Universe 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

It's a subject that you could ponder for a lifetime and still never come to an apt conclusion. What's the best ever guitar solo? 2012-07-20T11:33:35Z

Here, in a landscape once inhabited by Ancestral Puebloans, I pondered the cliffside dwellings that seemed almost unfathomable to scale and the people who once called this sacred space home. San Juan Skyway, one of Colorado’s All-American Roads, is a destination in itself 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Baldwin also ponders how black men and women are perceived within America. 'I Am Not Your Negro' explores America's civil rights struggle 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Tortured by Li’s elusiveness, the Writer ponders during one of his solipsistic reflections why Li “was so insistent in possessing me.” ‘Art of Love’ Review: An Erotic Male Fantasy in Puerto Rico 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

And while you ponder it, why not let “The Floatones” happen to you? Review: ‘The Floatones,’ Making Song and Sense of Life and Nonsense 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

As the cook in the family, Ms. Beener rallied, pondered and experimented. At Seasoned Vegan, Soul Food That Never Harmed a Soul 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

I lay there for an hour, pondering my uselessness before finally drifting off, only to wake up again at 5 a.m. from a nightmare in which my son was choking on chunks of pineapple. In Search of Lost Me Time 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Danerys Targaryen has been carrying them around ever since, occasionally taking them out and pondering them but always setting them aside for later. "Game of Thrones" takes wing 2011-06-20T12:21:00Z

The Seattle poet's third collection ponders such everyday topics as cereal boxes, homesickness and "The Idea of Ice Cream at Alki Beach." Local books | Inspector Lynley fans, take note: George has a new novel 2010-04-19T19:53:00Z

I’m still mad at Lost for wasting five years of my life pondering mysteries that they set up that the writers had no intention of answering. Boardwalk Empire and Sons of Anarchy face challenge of finding a fitting finale 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

As a way of pondering her parents’ demises, Cross has drawn ancient weapons — spiked, curved, jagged and blunt. Review | In the galleries: Artistic reflections on what mortality leaves behind 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

White sings of three different women to open "red, blonde and brunet," celebrating and pondering single life minus any weak-kneed apologies. Jack White's 'Lazaretto' taps Nashville for songs' wellspring 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

He and a friend had been pondering the limits of what he calls “L.G.B.T.Q. plus.” Generation LGBTQIA 2013-01-09T21:10:18Z

For the rest of us, however, the far greater mystery — the same pondered by the traveler in Shelley’s “Ozymandias” — is that the passions they once inspired somehow yet survive. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

OK, I know I sound kooky but I also realize for me that while these ristualistic practices work for me for the most part — sometimes even I need a break from always pondering the abstract. All the witchy things I do to stay connected to the occult this season and every season 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

And in “Wanna Be,” she ponders how to move from friendship to romance, as creamy vocal harmonies — part Chi-Lites, part Beach Boys — hint at blissful possibilities. The Internet Gives a Human Touch to Digital-Era R&B on ‘Hive Mind’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

It is a fascinating work, and I am already looking forward to watching it and pondering it again. Cannes 2014 awards: Timothy Spall an anchor in a stormy night of surprises 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

We’re dealing with a man who introduces himself by claiming that “the accumulation of experience amounts, when all is said and pondered, simply to extra weight.” In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking

In all of the horror at how Burley handled the situation, though, it’s worthwhile to ponder what a better journalist might have done differently in the same shoes. A reporter’s on-air horror show 2012-10-05T19:08:00Z

It is worth pondering these improvements and their value as the Botanic Garden this year marks its 200th anniversary. Perspective | 200 years later, the U.S. Botanic Garden is an example of what public funds can do for public good 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The philosophy today is that if you can give people more of what they liked, then don’t waste time pondering whether you should. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

In a series of gatherings, they and their advisers discuss their selections, vote, consider appeals and ponder larger questions: Should they include contemporary Chinese artists? At Art Basel, a Powerful Jury Controls the Market 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

If these 3-D pranks are in the surreal tradition of Salvador Dali’s melting watches, Park also wants observers to ponder loss. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Hudson also pondered how to reinterpret Franklin’s songs. Jennifer Hudson Knew Aretha Franklin. To Play Her, She Had to Learn More. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

And it left ample time to ponder if the climb was worth making. Modern Love: What Is Carved in Stone 2011-05-27T17:29:32Z

The episode found him recuperating from last season’s culminating gunshot and pondering ways to counteract his Mr. Robot alter ego, specifically his world-shattering acts of cyberterrorism. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3 Premiere: Sam Esmail on Parallel Universes and President Trump 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

The current issue of PPC, for instance, ponders "Court-bouillon, an early attestation in Anglo-Norman French?" while not being too grand to ask anxiously "Is slurping uncouth?" A taste for words 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

"What exactly do you call this?" ponders Gonzales from the stage. Gonzales 2010-04-09T20:45:00Z

Here is a character pondering the alarming fate of his two missing children: “Change is hard.” ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

And ponder the pitfalls of fame on “Atlanta.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Jessica Jones’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

As she continued writing and recording, the songs for the album — released on March 16 — converged into a narrative arc from separation to reconnection, pondering mortality and tenacity. Bonzie Longs for a Post-Pandemic ‘Reincarnation’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

As she ponders her grandmother's choices, Norris' voice is as soothingly probing on paper as it is on air. 'The Grace of Silence': Michele Norris' memoir of unearthing family secrets 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z

When Mr. Dylan’s career began, he could have expected scholars to spend centuries ferreting out the obscure references in his work and pondering his reasons for free-associating in the ways that he has. Books of The Times: ‘The Dylanologists,’ David Kinney’s Look at an Obsession 2014-05-04T21:57:27Z

Another thing to ponder: galaxies differ in their amount of dark matter, depending on the size of the galaxy. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z

His Milton book, one of his earliest, ponders the problem: does the poet have to create his/her own language? John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

Here at Wine School we regularly ponder the differences between wines and the reasons for their pricing. Malbecs From Argentina Fight the Stereotypes 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Other plays ponder what it takes to make it to the top. Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

This, I ponder on my final morning, standing in the courtyard of Thikse Monastery, is Ladakh’s magic: to blur the lines between history and myth, past and present. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

American Sniper, for instance, rarely looks up from its telescopic sights to ponder why this whole Iraq mess is happening in the first place. In the line of dire: let's call time on Clint Eastwood's macho movies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

It is also worth pondering that our understanding of the interconnectedness of nature is relatively new and coincides, paradoxically, with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution. The garden is a sanctuary — for plants, animals, Mother Earth and you 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Now ponder the possibilities for a crossover episode. Review: On Adult Swim, He’ll See You When You’re Sleeping 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think it takes an iota of preparation to enjoy these things and ponder them fully, during the course of the production.” Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z

“How do you measure a year in the life?” it asks, then goes on to ponder the impossibility of quantifying love. Music Review: Lightens My Sadness, She Livens My Days 2010-10-06T22:21:00Z

For romantic sensibilities screaming for the sublime, the metaphysical pondering of the deep — no. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z

While Sookie went home to ponder this, events at Bill’s house took a happier turn. 'True Blood' Recap: Finale Says Farewell to Bad Things 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

In a smart, if sometimes shaggy, monologue that ponders an ideologically riven nation, Mr. Quinn is not firmly allied to one side or another. Review: Colin Quinn Won’t Be Pigeonholed in ‘Red State Blue State’ 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Given the city’s enthusiastic response to the Florence, Acheson is already pondering a follow-up restaurant—one that would take advantage of the area’s vast bounty of seafood. Tour Savannah, Georgia 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

For a moment, it seemed like he might actually be pondering something sinister. 'Pale Emperor' ushers in the return of Marilyn Manson 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Blake's The Grave, and its portrayal of death's door, M Ward huskily ponders the transience of earthly discomfort and the possiblity for restitution on the "other side". Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z

“Using God and religion to get a staffing job,” she ponders. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

She channels Martha in 1769, before the American Revolution, when the colonies — and her husband — were struggling with British taxes and pondering their freedom. Historical interpreters serve as time travelers in a tech-crazed modern world 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Sometimes, like you, I ponder my own idiocy in keeping this stuff around. I’ve Shed the Emotional Baggage of Divorce. But What About All This Stuff? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Now in his late 60s and retired from Britain’s National Health Service, Marsh is pondering the end of his own life. A surgeon confesses his fears — and errors 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Just a reminder that life is often stranger than cinema; something to ponder, on a rainy Monday morning. Spotted at the poetry bash 2011-10-24T17:14:15Z

Is he pondering what Daggett has just said; perhaps he’s thinking about how he’s let down his wife who helped him repent; or most likely, he’s just savouring the moment. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Here is as fine a place as any to ponder what "The ReidOut" might eventually become. Cheers to a solid launch for MSNBC's "The ReidOut" – but from here on out, it's time to get tougher 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

You can ponder the skeleton of a dog, and fiddles, bellows and signet rings. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z

Amid all these practical considerations, don’t forget to ponder the miracle of the cicada’s long absence followed by its moment in the sun. The cicadas are coming. But gardeners need not panic. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

"If there is indeed a 'Jewish consciousness', it must pause here to ponder our own selves." Reareading: Jacqueline Rose on Khirbet Khizeh 2011-03-12T00:06:57Z

They even ponder an after-afterlife, as most of the city’s residents pass on yet again after about 70 years. Review | What does the afterlife look like? ‘The Ghost Variations’ offers 100 possibilities. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The Ideas of March” was a comment by Loser Diane Wah in a Style Invitational Devotees thread about a pondered March for Math. Style Invitational Week 1225: The Ideas of March 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Sometimes lush, sometimes turbulent, the arrangements make Mr. Chu’s melodies more luminous while they open up mysterious spaces behind lyrics that ponder continuity and collapse. Playlist: New CDs From the Morning Benders and David Byrne 2010-04-10T04:22:00Z

She's up to something similar with "Thinking Caps," a two-part installation at Jack Straw New Media Gallery that ponders mountain sounds, shapes and mindset. Taking the mountain for a walk: Vaughn Bell's playful 'Thinking Caps' at Jack Straw in Seattle 2010-08-09T23:37:00Z

It's clear, too, that Melville isn't simply pondering the rise of machine culture in society at large. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

He seemed to be pondering why men of another era — the 18th century, say — looked authoritative in their high-collared shirts, somber frock coats, and powdered wigs. Whiskers, Kittens 2010-06-24T22:48:00Z

Throughout “Ghosteen,” Cave ponders love, faith, loss, consolation, mortality and time itself. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

I spent my last night in Istria pondering the complexities of the region while hunting for the perfect dinner spot in Rovinj. On Croatia’s Istria peninsula, a variety of historic influences meld into a beautiful present 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

This, I ponder on my final morning, standing in the courtyard of Thikse Monastery, is Ladakh’s magic: to blur the lines between history and myth, past and present. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one

With the Iraq war in recent memory, and a re-run over Iran distinctly possible, that is a proposition to ponder. John Gittings: What I'm thinking about ... peace and war 2012-08-23T09:51:46Z

But the show regularly veered off course as Tom and Ray pondered the spelling of women’s names, reminisced about cities they once lived in, explored philosophical quandaries and squabbled good-naturedly over decades-old family disputes. Tom Magliozzi of NPR’s ‘Car Talk’ helped turn Saturday-morning radio into a joy ride

While you're there, you might ponder if this era of political tumult has anything to teach us about our own. Comics: Revisiting Sacco-Vanzetti case and Poe mysteries 2011-08-16T22:43:04Z

I find myself musing and pondering these things with my friends and family and folks I meet. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Bloomberg L.P.’s news division began pondering that question late last week when its founder and principal owner, Michael Bloomberg, surprised the political establishment by filing to run in the Alabama Democratic primary. Bloomberg, the news company, begins to ponder how to cover Bloomberg, the would-be candidate 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

I look at houses online when I own and when I rent, when I’ve just moved and when I’m pondering moving again. If I lived in that house: my addiction to the fantasy of online real estate 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

I don't like to sit around pondering things. Black Sabbath goes back to the beginning to recharge 2013-08-15T13:12:36Z

The artist prefers to ponder her subjects as they contemplate. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The ensuing narrative invites us to ponder the image of children separated from their parents and forced to live in brutal circumstances, all to serve the purposes of powerful men. Review | Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ turns our political moment into gripping horror 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

I found much to ponder in Mr. Miller’s attempt to render the characters and story believable. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z

Schreck, who rappelled from the catwalk at one point as he pondered logistics, says actors will scramble up using two retracting ship ladders. ‘Oliver!’ shows off Arena artisans’ craft 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

I’m not sure if I’ve completely decided what it means, but I am more than happy to be left pondering such an odd but indelible vision. Best TV of 2015: Our critic’s picks for the 10 best shows of the year 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Downey, working mostly alone at home on his initial drafts, which he dictates by phone to his assistant, continued to ponder how to create the main debate sketch. Spinning Gaffes Into Gags: Live From New York, It’s Debate Night 2012-10-08T02:20:41Z

As “Curriculum II” continues, it seems to be pondering an essential idea: What is it to be human? Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Maybe we’re supposed to see affinities between Mikey and the eventual winner — to ponder once again how some men get away with so much, and sort through our possible reactions of envy, admiration or disgust. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Not just because we needed an activity to keep us busy as I pondered the thought of many days together at home, but because the act of baking brings comfort. A Cake to Bring Comfort (to Parents and Kids) 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Baltimorean, one of seven artists showing in Arlington Arts Center’s “Fall Solos,” makes video pieces and 3-D wall sculptures that ponder femininity. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

As a low-budget indie or experimental foreign film, "American" could enjoy a festival-circuit ride where cineastes could ponder the profundities of its blank stares and static situations. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z

The songs often ponder social issues and find the gravity in everyday desperation; they commiserate with dignity. Review: David Gilmour Lays Claim to Pink Floyd Memories 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Then all the dancers exited, giving us a moment to ponder what we had just seen. Review: Dispassionate Traumas and Choral Dream Songs 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

At an age when many people might be pondering retirement, he took his seat before the camera to deliver his first "60 Minutes" essay. Andy Rooney: Each Sunday he looked at the everyday 2011-11-05T12:52:13Z

So, that leaves only about a hundred other characters to ponder over. A Simpsons Character Will Die This Season—Who Will it Be? 2013-10-02T14:24:31Z

And she presents it on this occasion in graceful shape, leaving it to us to ponder all of its beauty and all of its blemishes. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

As the play approaches its conclusion and more single-mindedly ponders the mysteries of birth and death, the burg of Middletown begins to seem like a metaphor for human existence. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Michaels’s men, on the other hand, don’t ponder the implications of minutiae; they are, by today’s standards, if not deviants, then, at the very least, bad husbands and casual misogynists. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The song ponders longing, time perception and memory, reaching no conclusion but raising evocative questions. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

In recent years, as more artists and writers in the mainstream ponder Asian-American identity in their work, the unifying refrain has often been about its nebulousness. A Vision of Asian-American Cinema That Questions the Very Premise 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

This gave an audience member plenty of time to ponder what had happened so far: an aesthetic hodgepodge seemingly designed to trigger responses of “wow, cool” or “how’d they do that?” in the viewer. Dance Review: Brian Sanders’s Junk Infuses Choreography With Props 2014-03-11T21:59:41Z

Since 2003, when he made “Trouble No More,” a collection of old blues and folk songs, he has been a grizzled codger taking the long view, pondering mortality and the meaning of life. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

Some will ponder your sincere effort at making amends, and will forgive you later. Perspective | Ask Amy: Former high school jerk yearns to make amends 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Long lines at certain polling places: Elections in urban areas must present such wrenching choices that people take hours to ponder their options. Style Invitational Week 1450: Putting ‘anoid’ in humanoid 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Given that first time around they presented their native Queensbridge and LeFrak City housing projects as "Kuwait" and "Iraq", the stage is set for CNN to ponder the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Raekwon and Ghostface sequel gets everyone in hip-hop revisiting former glories 2010-06-11T23:07:00Z

But their sophistication shines through, particularly in Jagger's comments pondering the band's success and the politics of the era. Fans, filmgoers get look at vintage Rolling Stones 2012-10-05T15:15:25Z

And the unfairness of it all is that we must speculate about actions and ponder questions during the sleeplessness that inevitably follows. Rigoberto González on being in the bittersweet club of professionals of color 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

“Surely the tragic and untimely death of this brilliant and dedicated leader must cause each one of us to ponder our sense of responsibility in bringing an end to this kind of insanity.” Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Instead, it’s laced with nervous undercurrents of percussion and bass, playing up the ambivalence of a song that’s pondering just how close to let a relationship get. Jazmine Sullivan’s Meditation on Courage, and 10 More New Songs 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Some questions to ponder for next week and beyond: Is Eric’s prognosis terminal? 'True Blood' Recap: Jason Had the Best Dream... 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

With the midterm elections and the fall movie season looming on the horizon, our chief film critics ponder the complicated relationship between cinema and democracy and wonder about the future of both. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Four new shows in Seattle art galleries ponder architectural possibilities in wildly varied and revealing ways. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

There are plenty of opportunities to ponder some enduring questions: Why is good slapstick so hard to pull off? A Very Streaming Christmas 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

After seeing the show Thursday, I wanted to burn all my stuff and ponder circular time. Essential Arts & Culture: 'The Encounter's' circular time, L.A. Phil's Icelandic time, Center Theater Group's anniversary time 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

He's had time to ponder how he really, really isn't a human at all, and he's certainly not going to have any truck with whimsical Earthbound dating conventions just to keep up appearances. No flirting on the Tardis? Good – Doctor Who was never about romance 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

The task with every show is to read the book, ponder it, then present a personal song triggered by it. The Bushwick Book Club salutes Shel Silverstein, for kids and adults 2011-03-17T18:42:03Z

It certainly wasn't the man who, in 1967, released "The Worst Record Ever Made," which featured Fowley in front of the microphone pondering terrible music along with a group called Althea & the Memories. Kim Fowley rocked industry as a salesman of sounds 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Round House Theatre thought the question was so ripe for exploration that it hired 10 playwrights to ponder the dramatic consequences. In ‘Homebound,’ 10 playwrights write a Web series as unpredictable as the life we’re living 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

I pondered the question as his first tweet turned into a four-tweet mea culpa. Perspective | Ford Foundation’s president is apologizing for the wrong thing 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Rather than taking us to the sublime, this performance asked us to ponder the music. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Our awards columnist Glenn Whipp ponders these questions and more in his Emmy preview and gives a rundown of the rule changes for the true awards aficionados out there. Emmys 2015: Watch a live stream of the nominations 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It ponders the very meaning of life and then turns a corner and leaps in celebration for the very ability to experience life at all. At Town Hall: Joshua Roman and the Biava Quartet 2010-04-09T23:03:00Z

Moreover, when you have set the book down and pondered its essential message, you are left with an entire mindset rather than specific proposals. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review 2013-02-28T11:00:01Z

If you hear it, and ponder it as you let it engulf you, you begin to understand the depth of its statement, especially in this context. “It is so beautifully written, it sings itself”: The Beach Boys’ sublime “God Only Knows” 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Scavenger hunters must ponder this clue about church objects in her home: “Among the things in the van Varicks’ care/Was this lovely silver pair.” Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 23-29 2011-12-22T21:03:48Z

Russell says he’s pondered mistakes made in the 2012 festival, and vows not to repeat them. Intiman’s second festival has more to prove in 2013 2013-07-05T16:46:38Z

“It sends you back to Scripture — Baldwin, Coates, Morrison, David Walker and others — to discover or rediscover them, to ponder and treasure them anew.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The other diagnosis that you may ponder is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Perspective | Why does our second-grader hate school? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

It keeps cropping up on my Instagram feed, on restaurant menus and, frankly, in my own thoughts when I ponder what I am hankering for at breakfast time or for an afternoon snack. Ricotta toast with peaches and pistachios is the summer snack you didn’t know you needed 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

As Frances labors on Nils’s project, she ponders her own paintings and pursues muses that might deepen her disengaged work. ‘The Sunlit Night’ Review: A Trip to the Arctic to Find Her Muse 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

On her second album, “Fatigue,” which arrives this week, Cheek continues to ponder self-doubt, remembrance, bewilderment, regret, mourning and anxiety while trying, somehow, to persevere. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The plot doesn’t track entirely if you examine it too closely, but these actors don’t let you ponder. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z

Both ponder the consequences of the emotional inhibitions of English aristos, and mine them for humor. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Jane is too wrapped up in Harry and her own doubts to ponder the group’s casual mores and nonchalance about their proximity to extreme violence. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z

As usual, I recommended three wines that readers would drink and ponder. For Northern Rhône Reds, It’s Not the Age but the Emotions 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But the singer himself had agreed to travel with me to discuss “American Utopia,” a strong new solo album on which the former Talking Heads frontman ponders life during Trump time. Catching up with David Byrne on a road trip 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

As I explore memorials such as this one, I always ponder the message: Forgive, but never forget. To see Prague’s old-world charm without the masses, escape the city 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The rerelease of Spielberg's frightener, newly refurbished in 3D, offers plenty of opportunity to ponder these and other important matters, such as: why isn't it more frightening? Jurassic Park 3D: revisiting the film that put machismo on the extinction list 2013-04-01T15:07:59Z

To take in the portraits was to ponder not just this new representation of the country, but our own place in it. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

"So two Sapphos might be worth a bag of peas?" she ponders. British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love 2013-06-20T18:08:56Z

Both his successor, Timothy Douglas, and other directors of ensembles of actors would do well to ponder his example. Casting, connections and getting 'The Goat': Who's right for the role? 2011-04-07T16:57:04Z

If that seems an oxymoron, well, pour a little whiskey and let us ponder the question. Review: ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Revived, With Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

And if the raison d’etre of travel is “to learn something new,” then to ponder maps can turn idle time into lifelong learning. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Fox also ponders the case of George Elkington, the Victorian inventor who developed electroplating – the closest anyone has yet come to alchemy. TV highlights 25/07/2012 2012-07-24T19:30:01Z

Gaffney is now pondering how else to get them — even if it means growing their own trees. Wegmans opens its own caves to age cheese

When pondering their standoff, Cromwell elects to play a long game. Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Time Song” jumps between vast epochs of time as Blackburn ponders the history of the English coast and its counterpart in the Netherlands. Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The political import of Belmar’s recent work is not blatant, but he’s clearly pondering the climate in his adopted hometown. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

En route, She and He talk about artistic forgeries, and ponder the meaning of originality. Juliette Binoche: the queen of Cannes 2010-05-28T06:59:00Z

Leave it to LaBute to ponder which were the worse violations, and answer with an unnerving final twist to an intricate jigsaw-puzzle narrative. Neil LaBute's 'In a Dark Dark House' homes in on troubled past 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

"Who do I consider my peer group?" he ponders, before heading back into the sun, mask on face and beer in hand. Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' 2012-08-16T13:35:39Z

The painting, an original study for the work called "Tough Call," shows three umpires pondering whether to halt a game as raindrops begin to fall. 'Print' on Texas family wall is original Rockwell, sells for $1.6 million 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Knowing that this might be the last bottle they would enjoy for a while, he pondered his selection. Rediscovering Wine After Covid-19 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

We laughed at sketch comedy clips on my phone, calculated the relative lengths of Chile and Canada and pondered cycling across both. The 12-Hour Goodbye That Started Everything 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Stars and Stripes fluttered above the cemetery’s 9,380 marble crosses, while visitors pondered the passing of the landings from living memory into the world’s collective history. As D-Day landings fade from memory, a veteran grapples with... 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, as global warming was first debated widely, Bill McKibben pondered “the end of nature” itself. How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

"Succession," through the Roys, leads one to ponder another parenting style: What if a father despised all of his children equally, but hated each son differently while dismissing his daughter entirely? On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

It’s also a principal topic of interest to Miller, who devotes considerable words to pondering how difficult it must have been for someone as sensitive as Wallace to manage his own fame. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Brooklyn artist is no neoclassicist, but he does ponder art’s basic elements, including color, shape and contradiction. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Or the "Succession" version of that pondering: who will "win"? Will the antihero pay for his sins? Buoyed by Bill Hader's confident directing, "Barry" saves its best hits for last 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Creed's songwriting avoids conventional structures but emerges with quirky tunes, over which he ponders life's daily grind with titles such as What's The Point of It? and Die. Martin Creed: Love to You – review 2012-06-28T22:00:01Z

If the introduction suffers from the self-regard of a writer pondering his greatest hits, the novel itself is a step up from Christine. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

The friends pondered “how history can ever be written when those who do the contemporary stuff are so wrong.” From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

A theatre and film-maker who enthuses about his love for particle physics, van den Berg says scientists and artists are linked because they are the only people really pondering long-term problems. Scientists invade Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-05T06:56:50Z

In a frenzy of victory, they rip off the wings of their rivals, a daffy yet poignant scene, one of many that “Here Be Sirens” leaves you to ponder. ‘Here Be Sirens,’ a Little Philosophy Included 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

But after Minneapolis City Pages uncovered a treasure trove of anti gay tweets from Priefer’s son, it’s worth pondering – where did Priefer Jr. pick up his “no homo” attitude? Vikings coach Mike Priefer denies Chris Kluwe’s “attacks” 2014-01-03T15:30:00Z

For the first time, she was pondering the half-life of camp. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a question that can’t be pondered without giving away at least something of the book’s ending. Reading in an Emergency 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

But he briefly pondered whether the episode might irk any real late-night hosts. Willard finds late-night TV murder on `Castle' 2010-04-12T08:56:00Z

As I pondered that shift in fortune, he deftly demolished the last of the brûlée. A Tasting Expedition With Michael Ruhlman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Viewers are implicitly invited to ponder the contrast. Review: In ‘A German Life,’ Goebbels’s Secretary Explains Her Actions 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Other subjects being pondered include "underpants and the human condition". Paxman to talk beards in Edinburgh 2014-04-10T09:13:59Z

A brief coda shows him back in Turin, pondering his experience. ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’: An Italian Saga Returns in Full 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

In a previous interview with Salon, Elizabeth Wolff, director of the "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" documentary series on the Golden State Killer, said she's pondered this seemingly gendered fascination. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

The four artists in this exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center ponder civic, natural and architectural domains, not cosmic ones. In the galleries: At annual benefit show, the world goes round 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Tweedy’s songs ponder history, politics, mortality, ambivalence and the utility — or futility — of art in 21st-century America. Wilco Makes an Understated Magnum Opus 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Yes, his 1896 classic “The Seagull” ponders love, literature, theater, suicide. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z

She ponders the overlapping meanings of the 1994 Susan Smith case, in which a mother in South Carolina drowned her two children before claiming a black man had kidnapped them. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z

The author at 8, in her punk “costume,” ponders how this will play out in American culture. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z

As they discussed their strategy for the meeting, which will be shown tomorrow night on Channel 4 News, the women pondered the events of summer 1968. Veterans of Dagenham dispute strike another blow for equality 42 years on 2010-09-22T20:50:00Z

That's the question facing Oscar voters as they ponder this year's actor and supporting actor categories, where there are two clear favorites and everybody else. 2010-02-17T09:07:00Z

“A Hologram for the King” ponders a modern world in the thrall of illusions. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

"He does not present his poems as nuggets of wisdom to be pondered," Mr. Batchelor wrote. Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2011-10-06T11:58:05Z

Amid such barbarism, is there any respite to allow us to ponder what the violence means and says about how we live? In a sea of corpses, a lone detective struggles to solve one murder at a time 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“Whatever you say, I’ll be,” he says to appease his fretful mother, leaving the audience to ponder a playwright’s first steps, which here make for a kvetch-filled evening that frustrates more than it fascinates. Review: ‘Comedy About a Bank Robbery’; ‘No Villain’; ‘It Is Easy to Be Dead’ 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

Other artists pondered more personal themes in similarly epic terms. Coachella Festival's epic factor plays out in the music, good and bad 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Have you pondered over an invitation, trying to decide which child was the intended recipient? Motherlode Blog: Thank you so much for the online invitation?but which of my children did you mean to invite? 2012-03-08T16:37:40Z

The answers often sound like statements made by teen­agers pondering the essence of everything while on drugs. ‘The End of Time’: a slow-ticking meditation on time 2014-02-06T22:45:00Z

Media outlets, this one included, run thinkpieces that ponder them from every conceivable angle. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

In her void, Li floats surrounded by the words of men and women who’ve pondered the worthwhileness of it all and shaped her ability to join in that pondering. Yiyun Li’s brave look at depression and the consoling power of literature 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Shield’s outstanding finale left its antihero/villain, Vic Mackey, alive and chained to a desk, presumably to ponder his crimes forever. Breaking Bad Watch: The Iceman Cometh 2013-09-23T04:26:21Z

The actors and siblings Kate Hudson, 41, and Oliver Hudson, 43, ponder family relationships and examine the special connections between brothers and sisters during weekly hourlong episodes recorded in Los Angeles. Podcasts Inspired by Love and Relationships 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

"And yet still feel so unfulfilled?" he says, and ponders on it for a moment or two. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

"The Secret World of Arrietty," a project pondered for four decades by Miyazaki, is a little different: It's borrowed, if you will. 'The Secret World of Arrietty': a borrowed and beautiful anime tale 2012-02-14T20:22:04Z

Earlier this month, while hunkered down in her Maine home, McTeer pondered the 10 things — categories, really — she can’t live without. Janet McTeer Gets a Thrill Out of Watching James Bond. But She Wants to Play Him, Too. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The collection includes tailored separates and jewelry priced from $98 to $1,298 - ideal for those left pondering what to pack while still being cost conscious. | Jen Kao for Anthropologie Bracelet 2013-02-01T22:03:36Z

But they are just the questions that anyone living in America, red state or blue, could benefit to ponder. The N.E.A. Really Isn’t “Welfare for Rich, Liberal Élites” 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

And in many of the songs on “Helplessness Blues,” he ponders a relationship that crumbled. Music Review: Close to Eden, Where the Music Is Artisanal 2011-05-19T21:27:50Z

Passionate pop music fans are pondering these and other questions as we approach Sunday's Grammy telecast. Join us for the Grammy telecast Sunday! 2013-02-08T18:48:43Z

The movie’s spiritual twin is Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” made two years earlier and similarly self-reflexive in pondering the effect of the so-called dream factory. ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

As we ponder the developments 2011 may bring, this week's poem, "Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine", may offer a reassuring perspective. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z

Walking to the Metro, we made plans to return with my father during his next visit and pondered what other surprises might be in store for us then. The Yards on steady path as emerging site for locals and visiting guests alike 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Edgar Allan Po’boy: Once upon a midnight dreary, While he pondered, weak and weary, Suddenly a rapping eerie sounded at his chamber door. Style Invitational Week 1344: Well, that’s just great — it’s Limerixicon XVI 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The BBC might ponder its success – two million listeners at a time of day when audiences normally fall off – and think again about what listeners really want. In praise of ? In Our Time 2011-03-11T00:55:09Z

To help you process this, I would also ponder what this means for you. My teenage daughter is embarrassed by the car we’re giving her for her birthday 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

You walk away pondering whatever snippet from the whole made the greatest impression on you. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z

Now André wants Arnold to ponder this injustice while “the many slights to his vanity” fester. 'Turn: Washington's Spies' recap: Abe resumes his covert work 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

It grapples once again with topics Cohen has pondered throughout his career: love, desire, faith, betrayal, redemption. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z

He ponders and then tells me to hang on while he finds a picture of the first house he bought. Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Noël Coward, considering their success, ponders tartly, “Perhaps we are whirling more swiftly into extinction than we know.” Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

He was 42 six years ago when he began to ponder a Presley documentary. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

This was a superb piece of radio: thoughtful, moving, richly textured and profound in the bigger questions it pondered. A week in radio: No Greater Love 2012-07-26T20:00:04Z

Why, she ponders: “It’s almost like sibling rivalry. Or perhaps there’s something threatening about a woman asserting herself in that dynamic.” 'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

The timing of this highly impactful decision was questionable in the eyes of some people, and if you ponder the scenario beyond his action there are other problems too. Is this the way? "The Mandalorian" depicts struggling belief more realistically than that last Jedi 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Calderdale council and the Piece Hall's many local enthusiasts have been pondering this and have now come up with a second go at providing workspaces, shops, restaurants, conference and education space and a visitor centre. Huge fillip for Halifax as its noblest building gets £7 million 2012-07-20T07:30:00Z

Whether and how more tales from the Lassoverse arrive is up to Sudeikis, who told me he hadn’t even begun to ponder such things. Brett Goldstein Faces Life After ‘Lasso’ 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

It is also an exercise in color coding, inviting us to ponder stereotypical ideas about blondes, brunettes and redheads, and also to admire the cinematic properties of hair. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z

“Instead he looked at the latest Harry Potter book and pondered why British actor Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist.” John Kasich bags On Harry Potter: Ohio guv thinks it’s “weird” that Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Dawn Whitmore ponders recent events, as well as larger concerns, in an installation inspired by a true story about an Aleppo man who stayed inside for more than four years. Review | In the galleries: Renee Stout’s fiery visions draw inspiration from Jimi Hendrix 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Here are a trio of missed opportunities worth pondering. Emmy nominations show efforts to be less white but still don't get everything right 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The entire album will make you remember the 1990s for a second — when tech still made us feel optimistic, and space seemed like the place — then it’ll make you ponder the future. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the late 1960s, animal behaviorist Gordon Gallup was shaving in the mirror, pondering the question of how to test self-awareness in animals, when he was suddenly struck by an idea. Is your cat self-aware? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

It requires you to become a close observer of minute variations and ponder the conundrum of how-are-these-two-images-different? Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Caldwell and Theater Alliance are posing profound questions here for all of Washington to ponder. Review | ‘City in Transition’ is an exhilarating journey across Washington through the eyes of Black artists 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

At a neighborhood potluck, we pondered: Is this a sauce, a garnish, a dip? Fire up your peaches for a bright summer salsa 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Greetings from Paris, where I’m pondering time, friendship, early-evening drinks and cheese bread. Perspective | Make the cheesy bread that the French nibble nightly 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

That is the question the Twittersphere has been pondering after a video depicting some of James Bond’s most misogynist moments went viral on social media. Time's up for James Bond: is 007 too toxic for the #MeToo era? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

To Elton’s astonishment, one of the faculty members, a medical school tutor, hearing this story pondered aloud: “Should I be worried about this student?” Panic, chronic anxiety and burnout: doctors at breaking point 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

When the piano enters, its quizzical music seems to be pondering the Mozart theme: You hear just hints of it. Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr Domingos ponders a new set of Geneva protocols: banning humans from fighting. Machines for thinking 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Your host Dr. M. Sanjayan ponders the future of that most precious of resources in the series finale of "Earth: A New Wild." TV This Week Feb. 22-28: 'Good Witch' on Hallmark 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Something to be considered, observed from various angles and pondered. But . . . is it TV? “I Love Dick” aspires to make high art for the small screen 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

This would be a good image for the museum leadership to ponder when it considers future exhibitions. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions

In Collapse, Diamond returned to the theme of environmental determinism as he pondered why and how great civilisations come to an end. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z

Or at least argued about before diving further into the pinot grigio and pondering your next choice. Review | ‘The Woman in the Window’ or ‘The Wife Between Us’? A guide to the best new thrillers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

The lyrics ponder time, mortality, love, war, nature, cities and the elusive joy of life — often cryptic and allusive, sometimes utterly transparent. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

He ponders the strangeness of Roman numerals and rabbits. Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

I could tell that he had spent a lot of time pondering those pieces of his personal history, in an attempt to make sense of the unusual choices he had made. ArtsBeat: Bumpy Rides: Brendan Koerner Talks About ‘The Skies Belong to Us’ 2013-06-26T18:26:46Z

Into a Song’s Mysterious Heart Listening to Amanda McBroom perform her song “The Rose” at the Café Carlyle on Wednesday evening, I pondered the notion that one person’s art is another person’s kitsch. Music Review: Amanda McBroom at the Café Carlyle 2013-02-04T23:19:36Z

Baker’s music, as ever, is the work of a mind accustomed to pondering and fretting over grand moral questions. Julien Baker Explores the Art of Doubt on ‘Little Oblivions’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

She frets about their son, Shiva, and, because it’s the summer of 2016, frets about the coming election, and every so often ponders just how she’s “become this scummy rich person,” exiled from her principles. A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

But it’s not a fussy enterprise, or given to pondering its own accomplishment. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z

And it affords a fine occasion to ponder the meaning of the feminine in Indian art and myth. Art Review: A Life-Affirming Female Force, Ready to Rumble 2011-07-07T21:58:23Z

Through it all, Mr. Mangum sang his enigmas with clarity and conviction, and the band took nothing for granted, for a show where foot-stomping and pondering were fully compatible. Music Review: Reunited, Neutral Milk Hotel Plays in Jersey City 2014-01-15T22:52:40Z

Amid the gasps and murmurs, that line stands out, and invites a bit of pondering. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

He grounds the movie in science but he also helps give it a conversational lightness, as he stands and delivers on, say, molten rock and Mr. Herzog ponders creation. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Could it be time for her at least to begin to ponder setting a new fashion trend? The Mirror: Michelle Obama and the Exposed Arm 2012-09-28T18:12:32Z

I like to think of James pondering the meaning of this bizarre masticated tribute to modern adolescence. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z

I thought I was wrestling with concepts my dad had never pondered and it was my duty to guide him to the truth. Jesus never gave Christmas porn 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z

The ebullient notices have producers, and Ms. Cattrall, pondering a Broadway run. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z

She looked strangely calm as I pondered my choice. Don't Try This At Home 2010-03-11T21:00:00Z

I began to ponder a variation on the traditional pan bagnat using charcuterie, vegetables and cheese. This crowd-pleasing sandwich is made to last — and to pack 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The sum of those parts, Bosley Crowther wrote in his 1967 review for The New York Times, is a movie that “sends shivers down the spine while moving the viewer to ponder.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘The Black Church’ 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

But in its contemplation of different kinds of lost innocence, it’s also pondering the fall. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

“And he didn’t want me to.” It’s an appalling tale, which will once again force us to ponder what constitutes a human life — and when one has taken it. Is killing a fetus murder? 2013-05-17T20:11:00Z

But the mere fact of spending large amounts of time pondering these works leads to a critical Stockholm syndrome, a belief that the movies in question are of sufficient quality to merit the sustained attention. What Ethan Hawke Gets Wrong—and Right—About Superhero Movies 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Where their debut contained giddy guitars and a song about their local swimming pool, their third album finds them pondering mortality within melancholy epics deserving the comparisons with the Blue Nile and Talk Talk. The best albums of 2012 (so far) 2012-06-14T19:00:06Z

Mr. Martin pondered the possibilities through the first four takes, and then proposed a solution for the song’s two biggest problems, its brevity and lack of variety. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Over the centuries, composers have used many kinds of code for cognoscenti to decipher, for posterity to ponder, or as a secret language for their lovers to treasure. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z

“Le Trou” denounces injustice and celebrates solidarity, leaving you to ponder what happens when those values collide. ‘Le Trou,’ a Very French Prison Drama, Steals From Its Maker’s Life 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

As at any workplace, there were jealousies, friendships, allegiances, hurt feelings, and rivalries, which presented a list of variables for coaches to ponder when pairing up fighters: Who was coming off a good fight? I flipped my “psycho switch”: The surprising rage and fury I felt in the cage with mixed martial arts champions 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

“The God Committee” ostensibly ponders the ethical compromises involved in choosing organ transplant recipients, but it mostly illustrates the dangers of facile twists. ‘The God Committee’ Review: At a Hospital, Judgment Day 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Similarly, we see Hevesh ponder the worthlessness of a college degree to a career in toppling, but are never apprised of her possible long-term professional options. ‘Lily Topples the World’ Review: What Goes Up 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Revisiting them in middle age only sharpens that suspicion, whetting it against the contradictory pondering of whether letting go of our dreams truly serves us. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

"Maybe I shouldn't, someone might take it," he continues to ponder. Joe Hill: Sympathy for the devil 2010-04-13T12:28:00Z

Left alone to ponder her fate, Cinderella sings a wistful aria, music that suggests an old folk song, and allows herself a moment to dream. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Adds Stardust to the Met Opera’s Holiday 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

But the playing pondered deeply or surged with energy, as appropriate to the moment, and on this occasion the orchestra fully measured up to high Carnegie standards. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z

While “Under the Skin” purports to ponder mankind as regarded by an objective, alien gaze, the movie is also a documentary portrait of its wildly objectified star. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Here to remedy the oversight is film historian Joseph McBride, whose new book, “How Did Lubitsch Do It?,” reacquaints readers with the director’s genius while pondering how he slipped from our collective memory. Review | A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The playfully profound film connects the pair through word and image, as they exchange emails, putter, and ponder, one in Sussex, England, the other in Rolle, Switzerland. ‘See You Friday, Robinson’ Review: Dear Godard 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Cumberbatch’s curly-haired detective contemplates this question as he ponders the nature of destiny, action and consequence. The lady vanishes: “Sherlock” and the case of the disposable women 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Davalos also seems, at moments, to be seriously pondering the clash of the two conflicting worldviews that have long dominated Western civilization. 'Wittenberg' is an intellectual workout with Hamlet, Faustus and Luther 2010-11-22T23:29:00Z

What I am pondering is how to remain in medicine. ‘I went on a walk and returned to find my husband dead’ 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

As Ms. Thompson ponders this problem she also provides a propulsive narrative, chiefly by ending many of her chapters on Dickensian cliffhangers. Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z

The words are supplied by a range of poets on “Jazeera Nights,” the third anthology of his many recordings to be released by Sublime Frequencies, and they’re worth pondering. Playlist: New CDs by Judith Berkson, Trash Talk and Others 2010-05-28T21:25:00Z

As he’s pondering weighty questions, the narrator moves swiftly through the stages of his son’s development. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Gadsby punctures the myth of the great man and his sacred reputation, pondering the treasures we will now never have from those clobbered in their wake. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: The stunning Netflix special that made Louis C.K.’s comedy irr... 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“And now I had to ponder the success of this opera, as well as the failure of the other.” Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

But it is intriguing to ponder just how the recipients of this jet-powered-trousered philanthropist’s efforts are selected. Want to share in Elon Musk's billions? Just tweet him 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Since I learned of Ocasek’s death, I’ve been pondering the nature of the Cars’ particular sound, and how, early on, they differed from their fellow New Wave artists and synth enthusiasts. Ric Ocasek’s Eternal Cool 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Singer Kelly Jones delivers dark, melancholy songs of sadness and contemplation, the title track and Violins and Tambourines pondering the transience of life over touchingly simple guitar motifs. Stereophonics: Graffiti on the Train – review 2013-02-28T21:00:01Z

In the scene Ivins talks about her writing process, which includes time staring, pondering and avoiding editors. Loving Molly Ivins, and Getting Her to the Stage 2010-03-20T04:13:00Z

It is the monologue of a speaker pondering the daunting freedom of Arctic isolation and the fact that blackness—as the absence of light and the spectre of inheritance—can illuminate and enhance vision. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, he just holds on it, inviting you to fill it with meaning or simply ponder the ineffable with dread. Review: In ‘Creepy,’ a Cold Case Turns Red Hot, but Don’t Tell the Neighbors 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

On Monday, The Times published a piece by the critic Shaad D’Souza that asked a question I’ve been pondering a lot over the past decade: “What happens when a pop star isn’t that popular?” 9 Songs From Pop’s ‘Middle Class’ That Deserve to Be Hits 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z

I ponder the question of why there are more maids and butlers than actual people living in this house. Downton Abbey: why did America fall so hard for the show? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

She ponders the meaning of life and the routes to happiness amid Bollywood percussion, zithers from Asia and modal riffs from North Africa, airborne and determinedly positive. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In “The Last Corrido,” a young novelist takes on a magazine assignment touring with a Mexican band in Spain, pondering illness, mortality and his uncertain destiny along the way. ‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

If after pondering that you think, okay, but I still want him to know it wasn’t cool, then do what you have to do. Carolyn Hax: A friend breaks the embargo on mom-to-be’s news 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

For as long as stages have existed, performers have pondered power and metaphorically stormed the palace. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Rather than ponder an imaginary ogre, it peers at a real one: white-dominated society’s narrow idea of female beauty. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Gerima, who emigrated from Gondar, Ethiopia, in 1968 to study theater, is pondering the forces that converged to create his identity, as an African, as a Black man and as an artist. Haile Gerima and his landmark film ‘Sankofa’ are being rediscovered. Finally. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Me, pondering the choices: sand castles or sand balls — wet double handfuls smooth-coated with dry sand into hard, sugar-dusted spheres; such a pity to have to whip one at your brother. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z

He thinks like a person — pondering subjects like death and reincarnation — and he also dreams of being human. ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Review: Smart Dog, Dumb Movie 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

One of the many questions this very special film will leave you pondering. 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' looks at great directors' careers 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

His introspective moments — in which he ponders aging, love, and identity — knit the series together. RuPaul made his sitcom-starring debut with "AJ and the Queen," and we are not amused 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months as I continued pondering my future. My American dreams and nightmares: On Mississippi streets, "Native Son" and Jeezy vs. Gucci Mane 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bolt’s text ponders issues that gain urgency in any politically tumultuous moment: the conscience and courage of the powerful, and the impact of ordinary people. Review: No Battle of Wits in This Mild ‘Man for All Seasons’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Yet while the terminally ill ponder their digital legacies, the majority of us do not. What happens to our online identities when we die? 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

Valerie works in a field that allows her to ponder big, metaphysical questions of life, science, faith and philosophy. Just in time for Valentine's Day: my failed proposal to get my girlfriend back 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

It grapples once again with topics Mr. Cohen has pondered throughout his career: love, desire, faith, betrayal, redemption. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z

It’s a question I’ve been asking myself as I ponder this — my last column for The New York Times after 14 years working at the newspaper. The Upside to Technology? It’s Personal 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

One cinephile ponders whether Scala Beyond will nudge him into action on an ambitious idea he's been sitting on for a while. Scala Beyond: new season urges cinephiles to show films their way 2012-06-26T11:31:06Z

Heading down the inevitable rabbit hole of pondering buying a new mountain bike. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Familiar repertoire or not, I haven’t often walked away from a Philharmonic concert thinking so hard, pondering what an interpretation meant. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

As you’re wincing your way through “Suburgatory,” an unpalatable sitcom that has its premiere on ABC on Wednesday night, ponder the question that no studio executives apparently did: Who is the audience for this show? Television Review: ?Suburgatory? on ABC ? Review 2011-09-27T16:18:22Z

“We pondered shutting it down, but we wanted to keep it alive just for the sake of it, because it’s history and part of my story,” she said. How Do You Say ‘Kardashian’ in Italian? 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

More important, the duo also treats old songs not as quaint hand-me-downs, but as heartfelt stories and enigmas still to be pondered. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z

Is a story a puzzle to be solved or a mystery to be pondered? ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The sign-off to his masterpiece A Taste of Cherry is still something to be pondered. Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love ? review 2012-05-21T11:08:22Z

Dr. Dog pondered mortality, even as its songs bounded forward with cascading guitars and casual vocal harmonies. At Bonnaroo, Looking Inward 2010-06-12T17:02:00Z

Pelosi pondered at a brunch Friday morning to celebrate the documentary. Alex Pelosi's Sundance debut has political angle 2013-01-19T21:49:11Z

And this was a show to savor for its outward prettiness and to ponder for its interior vision. Special Report: Christopher Kane's Flora 2010-02-22T18:42:00Z

“I don’t know …” Mitchell ponders the question, but doesn’t answer it; instead, he speaks to a shift in the way queer people relate to each other. John Cameron Mitchell on Hedwig, Caitlyn Jenner and how 'queer' has changed 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The book offers much to ponder about balancing a coolly mechanistic mind-set with a deep awareness of the precariousness of life. Books of The Times: ‘Shine Shine Shine,’ a Novel by Lydia Netzer 2012-07-04T21:05:09Z

“Skin Fruit” should be taken as a chance, if not a wake-up call, for it to ponder seriously its founding principles and its current mission. Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum?s Mainstream Show 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

I couldn’t help but ponder whether, amid the promise of economic development, the train foreshadowed something more regrettable. A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa’s Past, and Future 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

It can compel guests to take notice, to pause and ponder rather than gulp and disregard. Good Wines Won’t Fix Thanksgiving, but They Couldn’t Hurt 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

At their apogee, the Sex Pistols inspired pundits on the evening news to ponder, in all seriousness, whether the decline of Western civilization had finally arrived. Afternoon Beers With a Former Sex Pistol 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The consequence of so much funny business is that there’s not much to ponder about the characters’ inner lives, which makes Ibsen far less interesting to watch. ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

This dish also features "fried cake", which has me pondering the dubious desirability of frying a chocolate or sponge cake, but that cannot be it. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

In these essays celebrating San Francisco’s enduring beauty and fluid nature, notable Bay Area writers ponder recent changes that have driven many people to flee. New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

The answer, Allen said in an earlier interview, is pure distraction from sitting at home pondering, “Gee, life is meaningless. We’re all going to die.” Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps pondered why the set list seemed so disjointed. National 'Glee' tour takes show to its Gleeks 2010-05-16T07:55:00Z

Throughout the process of “Come Fly Away” Ms. Tharp has pondered a couple of questions: What makes something the same? dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z

Comedy Central is pondering over a “short list” of prospective candidates to replace Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, following Tuesday’s announcement of his departure. Comedy Central Ponders Jon Stewart's Replacement 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

His songs, written with various collaborators, ponder longing, separation, memory and music, particularly lullabies. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

For those in a pondering mood, that surface appeal is in itself worth pondering in this era when so many of us are turning entertainment as a form of temporary escapism. Peacock's Syfy-quality "Brave New World" dystopia crosses Burning Man and an orgy in an Apple store 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

I ponder these questions en route to the Melbourne international film festival’s overnight Cage-a-Thon, and think about how I might answer them myself. I watched Nicolas Cage movies for 14 hours straight, and I'm sold 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

But now that the first season of “House of the Dragon” is in the books, it’s worth pondering a different question: Was it any good? ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1 Finale Recap: The Angriest Dragon 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

“How does one compose a life that sets direction, gives purpose and remains alive as long as I am alive?” she pondered one morning, touching on the story of Moses and the burning bush. An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

I'm talking about the audience as well — to ponder about these things, and be prepared, because when a critical moment comes it is the animalistic side that will pop out first. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

During the writing process, how much do you ponder the potential pitfalls of narrative as a form? Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

She was asked to ponder life there across 20 years. Critic?s Notebook: Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales 2012-01-25T19:30:11Z

But Taylor is an intelligent writer, sure of his voice — one who’s as interested in pondering questions of faith as he is parsing the lyrics of his favorite musicians, like Jason Molina. Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

The place is so popular that there are often long lines, but the cafe displays local art for sale to ponder while you wait and there’s live music on Saturday evenings. If you’re only going to eat three meals in Princeton, N.J., make sure they’re here 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

On his breaks, Lou reads his estranged girlfriend’s book on Buddhism, and ponders the wisdom of the comedian Bill Hicks. A Novelist-Turned-Cabby Hates His Life. Thanks to Uber, It’s About to Get Worse. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

No need to even ponder the question with employees at the ready to answer it for you. Take the hassle out of your ski vacation with an all-inclusive resort 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

“You humans are funny,” Elsie points out while pondering the idea of reduced fat milk in her Turkish coffee, “constantly thinking about eating and trying to look like you never eat at the same time.” David Duchovny’s first novel is a witty, madcap fable starring troubled cow, a Jewish pig and a suave turkey 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

After earning a master’s degree in English literature from Stanford University, he taught English at a boy’s secondary school in Kenya and pondered his future as a writer. Joe Gores, Crime Writer in Dashiell Hammett Mode, Dies at 79 2011-01-14T02:35:11Z

The album concludes with “20 Something,” with SZA, a guitar and her overdubbed backup vocals pondering all the uncertainties of her current status while savoring them as well: “God bless the 20 somethings,” she sings. SZA’s Songs Face Desire in All Its Complications 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

I Need A Dollar – whose jobless protagonist ends up seeking solace in "whiskey and wine" – was written when former Emanon MC Aloe Blacc, was working at consultants Ernst & Young idly pondering worksongs. When the going gets tough, Aloe Blacc gets going 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

Visitors might leave pondering exploitation, dancing to a disco tune from the soundtrack, or both. Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power. She Uses It for Change. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was a gentle way to ponder our reason for being here. Review | What did ‘The Good Place’ teach us? That even eternal bliss needs a happy ending. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Ms. Cash ponders, “Before it all went dark/Was she like a streak of fire, a pane of glass, a beating heart?” The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s been almost eight years since Mindich first sat down to lunch at a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with Pasek and Paul and asked them to ponder their dream project. How ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ became one of the most remarkable shows in musical-theater history 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Dassett pondered the pistol with amusement, turning it over and over, almost playfully, and exhibiting it to the growing group of onlookers. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z

Further to the right of the color spread, a tall figure with a tomato in lieu of a head and goggle eyes stared down, pondering the deeper meaning of the scene. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z

Like the earlier plays, it asks us to ponder the intricacies of love and friendship and the emotional perils of professional success. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Time Stands Still,’ in Hartford 2013-08-23T19:35:35Z

But Eilish hasn’t forgotten she’s an entertainer herself; as she ponders her isolation in a closing refrain — “Maybe I’m the problem” — she dials in an arena audience, singing and clapping along. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

Words worth pondering, Dolly, at a time when the uneven distribution of wealth has become a major topic of global import. Theater Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012-08-26T21:36:37Z

Some questions and points to ponder for all you good listeners: Is Capone’s right-hand man, D’Angelo, two-timing Capone or the feds? 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Happy Days Aren't Here 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

In a spellbinding event, translator Simon Armitage – celebrated for his version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – pondered the place of in our culture. A defence of poetry at the Hay festival 2010-06-01T21:40:00Z

In between are songs by Mr. Plant that ponder earthly and transcendent love. Robert Plant Releases ‘lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Just as I finished pondering the coat, the shoes arrived. Critical Shopper: Chuck and Doc Step Out 2011-01-05T18:57:08Z

Now 38, she is a married mother with quietly touching songs pondering the troubles and joys of maturity, domesticity and stardom, but she can still do anguished fury. Alanis Morissette – review 2012-06-28T17:09:37Z

“Extravagant Display: Chinese Art in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” an enthralling exhibition mostly of domestic artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers an excellent occasion to ponder that question. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z

In quick order he had a hostage and a cozy new place to ponder his supervillain vision board. 'Gotham' Recap: Batman as a Goth Boy, the Butler as an Angry Young Man 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Which poet wrote a “May Magnificat”, in which they ponder why “May is Mary’s month”? The merry month of May 2012-05-21T09:31:23Z

These were three things my mother, Ann Krieger, was pondering when she reached the final leg of her terminal illness last year, a month before Mother’s Day. Should the terminally ill control their death? 2012-09-22T13:00:00Z

It is a little disquieting in an international prize when it so rarely goes to a translated author, so we pondered a lot. Man Booker International prize goes to (very) short-story writer Lydia Davis 2013-05-22T20:35:01Z

It takes time to think and ponder, and the work is never done because it just continues. Visceral performances bring stardom for Tom Hardy 2012-05-21T13:07:47Z

As I was pondering all of that, Andrés suddenly said: “Let’s not sit down. Come with me.” You’re getting it all wrong about tapas — starting with the meaning of the word 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Sometimes an adult would try to elbow me out of the way as I pondered the mysteries of what was inside. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

As other passengers began to cry, and pray, Mr. Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Instead of pondering such problems, audiences are stirred up to abhor practices alien to them, which is about as easy as making them squirm at a chain-saw murder. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

That goes double for “Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars,” in which Colbert and Tom Hanks sprawled on a blanket outdoors and pondered the mysteries of the universe. John Oliver has a blast on “The Late Show” 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

But I’m still pondering the crucial narrative role of a pencil sharpener, which all too readily happens to be found outside a back door, ready for use. On the London Stage, Families in Disarray 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

He was too impatient to ponder his own motives, too enthralled by movement to wonder if it was toward or from. Lawrence of Sardinia 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

There was a lot of time to ponder two different approaches to music Wednesday night at Deck the Hall Ball, the annual mini-festival presented at WaMu Theater by Seattle's "alternative" radio station 107.7 The End. Concert review: Deck the Hall Ball 2010 2010-12-09T20:57:00Z

Stopping at a bar on the way home to bourbon-gargle the lingering deathiness and nausea from the back of my throat, I ponder the cow’s existence. Can slaughterhouses be humane? 2013-04-22T02:00:00Z

There are weightier issues to ponder - not who wears whose clothes or hair. The Many Meanings of Black Panther’s Mask 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

"Humor Abuse" ponders it with a hard gaze, but also much hard-won mirth. Laughs, and candor, in 'Humor Abuse' 2011-10-07T17:30:06Z

But “is there a great line” in it? he pondered. Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello 2010-10-19T22:25:00Z

Stymied by yet another of Baron Fellowes’s arrested plot developments, Daisy wanders back downstairs to ponder the pendulum swings of her fevered little brain. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Engine Purrs 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

"My geology's pretty ropey," Maconie admitted, as they pondered what stone they might be walking on. Radio review: Ramblings 2011-03-11T08:00:01Z

One evening, he pondered it all and found it empty. Rose’s Luxury chef Aaron Silverman masters the art of serious play

“Soldier of Love” is another collection of slow, pensive songs, mostly in minor keys, often pondering lost love and uncertain journeys. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z

This part is as simple as pondering which flavors would play nicely together. The kid-approved way to make quesadilla magic 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Hadreas has been pondering passion and trauma for more than a decade in his songs; the first Perfume Genius album, “Learning,” came out in 2010. Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

It's hard not to feel reflexively sympathetic, and to begin to ponder what the differences are, after all, between a symphony, a painting, and a novel, where only the latter requires editing. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z

And pondering several of them together is revealing and educational. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

As the BBC ponders the possibility of a vuvuzela-free option for viewers watching the football, a niche station offers the opposite scenario. Radio head: South Africa calling 2010-06-16T07:00:00Z

And theater cognoscenti lined up for the privilege of sitting from morning into night on hard benches that left no bum unnumbed, as they watched an international cast of dozens suffer, ponder and die. Review: ‘Battlefield’ Explores the Silence After the War 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

He joked that there were now very few acts left on his wish list, and pondering how many more festivals he will organise, said: "Another 10, do you think?" Rolling Stones were Glastonbury's best ever headliners, says Michael Eavis 2013-06-30T14:43:10Z

He's moving when pondering the negative effect his fame and wealth might have on his children, funny when chivalrously admonishing onlookers for eyeing up his wife: "Shoo children, stop looking at her tits." Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne - review 2011-08-11T14:30:01Z

On Fox News Channel’s homepage, the health news section pondered, “Does Werewolf Syndrome really exist?” but there was no mention of the Senate bill. Perspective | A troubling health-care bill rushes forward in secret. The media (mostly) shrug. 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

But most emojis are visual as well as conceptual disasters, leaving us squinting at a jumble of pixels, pondering why the sender didn't simply type T - A - C - O. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Still pondering what I thought of Jason Reitman’s ambitious “Men, Women & Children”; a sprawling tale of interlocking stories in which some work better than others. At TIFF: musicals, journeys home, and red carpets everywhere 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Colbert also pondered the chances of Mr. Trump getting his border wall funded. Stephen Colbert to Trump: Thanks for a Great 100 Days 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile Roman, Martin Starr's deadpan "hard sci-fi" writer, is still slinging appetizer trays while pondering how to crack his magnum opus. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Now, in a 27-minute speech recorded on Sunday and released on Monday by the Nobel Foundation, the artist ponders that very question. Bob Dylan Gave a Very Deep Lecture About His Nobel Prize 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Instead, the response from creators has been a far more subdued display of philosophical and psychological pondering: What happens when we die? Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

To its supporters, pondering the museum’s future is nothing short of an existential exercise with ramifications far beyond a mere building. ‘A slow-motion disaster’: Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Let's ponder what we saw unspool That made us cry, or laugh, or drool Or roll our eyes, or snore, or bounce Or cancel our Netflix accounts. A New Year's break -- and, some rhymes 2011-12-30T23:16:04Z

The book, he ponders – which is not so much an autobiography as a "semi autobiographical whimsy" – is loosely structured around a time in the 90s when he worked as a performing magician in a restaurant. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z

She appeared to be pondering her story again: “Occasionally I ask myself, ‘So why didn’t this happen to me at 40?’ Home Shopping for Baby Boomers 2012-07-17T18:26:48Z

This is reasonable casting since Mr. Stoppard’s play -– in which two easily confused minor characters from “Hamlet” ponder the nature of life and death -– could well be called “The Philosophy Boys.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Aging, Acting and Acting Up 2011-07-15T16:56:32Z

Georgetown University in Washington offers a philosophy course on the "Star Trek" franchise that, among other things, ponders time travel. Ka-pow! Marvel Comics heroes get academic treatment at Baltimore college 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

None of this is to say that sympathetic viewers won’t find much to ponder in the rooftop piece’s visual poetics. Art Review: ‘The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi,’ at the Met 2013-05-16T19:09:59Z

Why anyone would run the transaction in reverse is puzzling enough to be worth pondering, and also too depressing to contemplate. Review: ‘Entourage,’ the Screen Is Bigger, but Nothing Is Better 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

I’d prefer to see my daughter drilling long division unto mastery instead of pondering the cognitive mysteries of Common Core math, whose deep inspiration seems to be Cubism. The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

As "Mad Max: Fury Road" transports viewers to an exhilarating alternate universe of hair-raising heroics, it's worth pondering why some actors seem born to the part while others flounder. Here's the real secret to being a great action hero 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

He was trying to get the sounds that resonate in his head as he ponders deep questions on tape so the listener could join in. Jim James takes search for connection to SXSW 2013-03-13T19:48:08Z

There are many places like this across Britain where visitors come, sometimes to honour their own particular dead, sometimes to ponder the deaths and the lives of people they never knew. Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd 2010-12-30T00:05:09Z

The story touches on complicated questions of race, class, colonialism and cultural identity, themes Ms. Rotberg has long pondered, as she made clear in an interview. The Carpetbagger: A Mexican Director, a Maori Tale 2013-12-06T13:30:46Z

Or you can ponder the question “What do you carry that carries you?” Okwui Okpokwasili Wants You to Slow Down and Walk With Her 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Click to see full Big Ben struck as the lord chancellor pondered the cliffhanger that had gripped the whole nation. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer – digested read 2013-03-01T19:30:01Z

By way of helping you ponder your problems, we’ve been inevitably required to grapple with our a few of our own. The Art of Giving Advice (and Saying Goodbye) 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

On completing his degree in 1981, he looked around for temporary employment while he pondered what to do with the rest of his life. Michael Wojas obituary 2010-06-11T17:28:00Z

I found myself pondering a palate-cleansing fourth visit to “Rock of Ages.” | 'Power Balladz': Head-Banging Anthems at Midtown Theater 2010-08-20T02:01:00Z

In Paris, in a state of high anticipatory excitement, I had plenty of time to ponder these questions. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Even at their most over the top, Mr. Ahonen’s plays are notably earnest, especially in this work, which ponders a subject that resists ironic distance: sex. | 'HotelMotel': Bellhop, There?s a Play in My Room 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z

These 23 tracks are meant for lighting up and pondering the universe, if they’re not about indulging in those activities explicitly. Miley Cyrus' New Surprise Album Is Miley As You've Never Heard Her Before 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

For the young ones, Dory ponders, there's still something brand-new ahead — "the love that lay waiting like a web page as yet undesigned, or maybe even like a forest as yet unwalked in." 'The Uncoupling': a New Jersey high school under 'Lysistrata's' spell 2011-04-06T22:24:04Z

Still, the story begs for more description, if only to ponder why this noirish tale of loutish people feels so downright thrilling. | 'In God's Hat': Richard Taylor?s Vision From the Gates of Jail 2010-07-26T21:12:00Z

Unwaveringly committed to its singular vision, and softened by Matthew Chuang’s lushly seductive images, “You Won’t Be Alone” ponders more than one existential question. ‘You Won’t Be Alone’ Review: Season of the Witch 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rand exudes the energetic zeal of a college professor pondering his own private obsessions. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z

I really want to make sure that after that, after all that pondering, I make the choice that very clearly is the right one. Once more into "The Good Place": William Jackson Harper on Chidi and the final season 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The episode makes you ponder the miracle that is recognition, a phenomenon that most of us would be hard-pressed to explain, even though we depend on it every minute. Review | Spooky Action Theater’s ‘The Man Who’ marvels at the complexities of the brain 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting to ponder propaganda’s role in the war — both in France and the United States. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

In conversations during the deployment and interviews after returning to their base in Italy, platoon members plaintively recall fallen comrades and ponder if any good came out of their sacrifice. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z

Now it’s where you can see works like Miroslaw Balka’s entirely black room and ponder an extreme existential nothingness, which in a museum with a crowd of people becomes transcendent. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z

No one would expect the Post to overlook Stark’s long history of apparent disregard for his tenants, or to refrain from pondering whether his business practices factored in his murder. The New York Post hits a new low 2014-01-06T15:45:00Z

Alley-Barnes uses film, text, design, installations and visual art to ponder “the resonance of genetic cultural memory through the mystical and the mundane.” Cornish announces 2014 Neddy winners 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

"To just sit there and watch Jay ponder as I talked, then go out to his kit and start building a groove — to me that was amazing," he said. Norwegian pop star Thomas Dybdahl uses L.A. as his lab 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Once the city calmed down, he pondered his next move. The Freshest Ideas Are in Small Grocery Stores 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Her exit seemed to be more about blowing off steam than pondering a permanent break. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

A question for any philosophers who aren't pondering "The Good Place" and have nothing else better to do. Obama releases his TV Top 10 List, reminding Americans that he (unlike Trump) is just like us 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

While his life ebbed away from a duel, And he pondered a fate that was cruel, What did Hamilton think As he lay on the brink? Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Henry Yorke/Green used Caught to ponder the relation between love and death in the character of Prudence. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z

Again and again, she ponders her own complicated feelings and the loyalty of her partners. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z

Meanwhile, a financial adviser ponders the opposite quandary. ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’ 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z

Each month, we drink several examples of a particular wine, and then reconvene to ponder where the wines took us. Different Grapes From Different Regions, All Screaming Italy 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

He's paralyzed trying to process his past, preferring to ponder rather than fully engage. 'How to Read the Air': Dinaw Mengestu's novel of the Ethiopian conflict's legacy 2010-10-13T23:09:00Z

Only in looking back on it can you ponder the ironies. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

But then, after initially pondering whether to commit to the show in 2019, she reread the script — and reconsidered her hesitation. Maggie Siff and Erica Schmidt on a Williams Play ‘Shot Through With Desire’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

In a 2003 interview with Skeptical Inquirer, Druyan pondered whether she and her husband would meet again in some other realm. How 12 authors turned their book dedications into grand romantic gestures 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

At other times, he seems to muse on how to survive in a totalitarian system, and he ponders the existential terrors of freedom. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival

Many have pondered if bringing "The Last of Us" to screen can avoid some of the pitfalls of other video game adaptations, which have rarely succeeded by the standards of fans or critics. "The Last of Us" could change how Hollywood does video games, but hateful gamers make it difficult 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

And as we ponder this, we smile because one thing’s for sure: This is one awfully cute monkey. ‘Unexpected Smiles: Seven Types of Humor in Japanese Paintings’ Review: Elegance That Encourages Laughter 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

So is the song that closes the album, “Marching Into the Dark,” which moves from guitar-plunking gospel roots into surreal modern production and ponders individual sacrifice and the course of history. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

I wanted only to ponder what I had read. Reflecting on a Lifetime of Reading and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

For opera critics pondering the future of the form, the composer Lisa Bielawa’s latest work, “Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser,” offers a new twist. An Opera Offered on the Installment Plan 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Then the crew pondered an even bigger problem: the food supply. Food, faith and farming in the apocalypse: The coronavirus pandemic and the rural-urban divide 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

According to the New Testament, Jesus pondered a bit. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

Back to Regina in the present, as she sits with Robin pondering their situation. 'Once Upon a Time': Maternal instincts aren't all alike 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

To pass the time, viewers over the age of 6 may ponder some questions. ‘Paw Patrol: The Movie’ Review: Young Dogs, Old Tricks 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Her lyrics are often mournful; they ponder loss, fear, separation, heartbreak, war and death. Music Review: Laura Marling Brings Folk Traditions to City Winery 2010-05-16T22:35:00Z

In a week when most will be thinking about turkey, one North Carolina resort proposes pondering another animal, the black bear. Tour and Hotel News: Watching Bears, Exploring an Ice Cave 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

There were so many more variables and bigger questions to ponder. Modern Love: A Brother?s Need, a Sister?s Gift 2010-07-16T16:53:00Z

His songs ponder passion, mortality, compulsion and sin. Review: Hozier at Beacon Theater With Somber Songs of Love and Other Futilities 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Ranch dressing with black truffles, an exercise in low-to-high, is a new product to ponder. Can You Improve Upon Ranch? 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Are these brothers only different because one of them intellectualizes and ponders his actions and the other just acts? A cheater’s guide to everything 2012-09-10T19:49:00Z

There are twists, yes, but not an endless supply of them; just one or two curveballs to keep things interesting, then some extended pondering of the emotional consequences. "Terriers": One of this fall's only gems 2010-10-27T18:45:00Z

As fans continue to ponder theories of consciousness, here are 10 questions Westworld still needs to answer. 10 Questions Westworld still needs to answer 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

The play, by David Ireland, is one of several at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe that ponder how men are reacting to a world in which women are increasingly empowered. ‘Ulster American’ Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

A former budget aide for Bill Clinton who now works at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, she has been pondering the state of the family for decades. The new merry-go-round 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

He hopes it offers Americans a chance to ponder the sacrifices of our current soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

“The Amateurs” ponders existential concerns, but it’s also a valentine to the limits, and compensating alchemy, of theater. Review | Coronavirus looms over this play set during a plague. But ‘The Amateurs’ speaks to timeless concerns. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

I had never pondered the question until a few months ago, when I made my own pilgrimage to see “Broken Circle/Spiral Hill,” a 1971 work by Smithson in Emmen, a town in northeastern Netherlands. How Do You Sell a Work of Art Built Into the Earth? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

But their way of life offers much for those dissatisfied with the realities of a hyper-connected urban existence to ponder. A Simple Life 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

In Week 1068, we asked you to ponder what your first act would be if you found yourself in someone else’s position. Week 1072: The Tile Invitational — our second ScrabbleGrams contest

"Surely," I pondered, "there's more to being female than this." My hero: Caitlin Moran by Annabel Pitcher 2013-01-11T20:00:12Z

On the most obvious level is the pair’s predilection for the kind of slow tempos associated with the much-missed Shirley Horn, the better to ponder song lyrics and unlock their hidden meanings. Music Review: Sandy Stewart and Bill Charlap at Feinstein’s 2012-11-21T22:15:31Z

Or is that the frightening extreme adults imagine when they dare to ponder what their kids are up to each March? Review: `Spring Breakers' is a hypnotic mix 2013-03-13T21:55:13Z

For five years, he debated whether to leave, traveling around the U.S. and to 22 other countries while he pondered the decision. Breaking Amish: One Ex-Follower’s True Story of Moving to the Big Apple 2012-09-09T12:00:38Z

I frequently find myself scouring our hosts’ houses for clues as to who they are, reading the titles on the bookshelves, staring at the photos on the walls and pondering their design choices. Home Exchange 101 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Our critic Jennifer Senior writes that McKibben is a proposing a thought experiment, “daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

All of which means that, much as Inception unfolds as a series of puzzles, the reaction to it leaves me scratching my head and pondering mostly unrhetorical questions. Inception sceptics! This way to the cyber gunge-tank 2010-07-16T12:04:00Z

The project will enable young people to ponder how both artists and ordinary people create meaningful images, and how visual works embody narratives that are often transmitted differently in our digital age. From Toys to Art Treasures: ‘The Teddy Bear Project’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

There are also glimpses of him doing standup in a Greenwich Village club, where he ponders what happens after you die and says, "Actually, a lot of things happen. Just none of them include YOU." Louis CK back for Season 4 of 'Louie' done his way 2014-05-01T15:26:49Z

This is music that skips, swerves, stutters, scurries, struts, dreams, hesitates, ponders. 'Clavier' Redux: András Schiff brings Bach's masterpiece to Benaroya 2012-10-10T22:23:03Z

It’s worth pondering why it continues to be a preoccupation for you that she confront the “real” you. My mum loves me, but doesn’t really know me | Dear Mariella 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

"How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" has Wallace, a junior tennis prodigy himself, pondering the complex nature of sporting genius, having just read Austin's insipid, cliché-ridden autobiography. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:04Z

Or you could run through your grocery list, then ponder what you want to do on the weekend. You don’t like violence but want to watch ‘Squid Game.’ These tips can help. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

"It's a humbling and inspiring path to ponder. It is also a path that I'm choosing not to take at this moment." Matthew McConaughey calls gun violence "an epidemic" following school shooting in hometown of Uvalde 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

“American Privilege” begins with him singing, “Oh, it doesn’t seem right/ that I was born white” and goes on to ponder materialism and all that he takes for granted. Review: Allen Stone Keeps His Distance From Modern Music in ‘Radius’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z