pontificating

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In the process he diminishes America's democratic model by pontificating, and refusing to listen to reason.

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  • If I may say; firstly, it's great stuff & is NOT pontificating, and secondly even it was pontificating, it wouldn't ever be "enough for now". —  Maggie's Farm
  • Ironically this pontificating, whether you realize this or not, comes off as patronizing and condescending. —  News
  • Reading the box-office tea leaves for clues about consumer tastes or Hollywood currents is akin to pontificating about symbolism in works of fiction: any halfway plausible argument works. —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
  • Now, she is as much of a pontificating blowhard as the Leprechaun. —  Latest Articles
  • Soon the group made their fictional book club a reality, and even the most uneducated members found themselves pontificating over the classics. —  Muruch
 

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