To viciously pontificate about a celebrity's perceived character flaws and imagined motivations is pretty cheap. |
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The latter is a moralistic bore who puts intellectual curiosity second to her desire to pontificate. |
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Later this month the church's 184 cardinals will gather at the Vatican for the sixth consistory of Pope John Paul II's pontificate. |
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Before that can be done well, I think, the archives of Pius XII's pontificate will probably have to be fully catalogued and opened. |
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She knows her French philosophers and can pontificate on Sartrian self-determinism with the best of them. |
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Given at Paderborn in the year of grace 1241, on August the ninth, in the twelfth year of our pontificate. |
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This is manifested with great clarity in the Holy Father's pontificate, with his pastoral visits, his meetings. |
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Though she is careful not to ever pontificate or sermonise, she believes that written works of fiction ought to convey some message. |
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Those members stand in this place and pontificate about how we are snubbing this one or that one. |
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Firstly, we have the talking heads syndrome, where a bunch of z-list celebrities get to pontificate about their favourite TV moments for our benefit. |
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Several among us, especially those who became bishops under his pontificate, keep living remembrances of their personal encounters with him. |
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In the first years of his pontificate, still young and full of energy, the Holy Father went to the very ends of the earth, guided by Christ. |
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His pontificate was also hallmarked and strengthened by his willingness to pursue God's will to the last. |
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But senators are slow to agree on things, except their own right to pontificate. |
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We have a duty not just to pontificate about rights, but to actively encourage access to education, training, employment and opportunity. |
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States with a history of wilful complicity in nuclear test explosions seem hardly qualified to pontificate on non-proliferation. |
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When did politics become so pettily intrusive that government agencies think it their business to pontificate on the contents of our children's lunch boxes? |
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Early in this pontificate, that institutional question was more clearly addressed in papal teaching on social justice and in diplomatic pressure in Eastern Europe. |
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These artists refused to simply describe the action in a banal manner and to pontificate to young readers through pictures in a book. |
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Following him, Urban the Fifth attempts to return the pontificate to Rome, but in vain. |
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I would pontificate at length about our need to seal the country's borders, support the Patriot Act, consider pre-emptive action overseas, and repeal the death tax. |
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And it's especially newsworthy since a latitudinarian statement on this topic is of a piece with the tone of Francis's pontificate as a whole. |
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While the Liberals dilly-dally and the Reformers pontificate about Adam Smith, farmers need help. |
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The facilities will remain in place until after the mass inaugurating the new pontificate. |
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The Leader of the Opposition can muse and pontificate all he wants about the economy, but everyone knows he has no plan. |
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The European Union is an economic powerhouse but we are not in a position to pontificate when it comes to our treatment of refugees. |
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I believe that I set forth clearly the priorities of my pontificate in the addresses which I gave at its beginning. |
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This is not the time to speak of the specific content of this rich pontificate. |
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Today we are paying tribute to the Pope of the civilization of love, filled with gratitude for the gift of this pontificate. |
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Benedict may well want to cut short the time available for the cardinals to politick, posture, and pontificate, as it were. |
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He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat. |
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He will seize any opportunity to pontificate, expressing his views with fervid self-assurance and with little concern for time constraints or his audience. |
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Moreover, as his case shows, the longer a pontificate lasts, the greater the likelihood that a name chosen in good faith will outlive its aptness. |
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When Francesco Borromini came to restore the nave of the Lateran basilica during the pontificate of Innocent X, subsidiary altars again had no role to play. |
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Indeed, part of the problem with discussion of the topic is that non-scientists are often too willing to pontificate about matters of climatology. |
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Less than a hundred days into his pontificate, the new Pope John XXIII startled most of the world by announcing his intention to convoke an ecumenical council. |
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Some of these ideas have geometric echoes: inspired by Thomas Friedman's bestseller, executives pontificate about whether the world is flat or spiky. |
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For the Holy See, it is the end of an exceptional pontificate. |
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We could not begin our Plenary without conveying to you our affection, our appreciation and our best wishes for your good health, at the same time as recalling the abundant fruits of your pontificate. |
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With a voice as round as he was, he loved to pontificate to producers, fellow theater owners, union leaders, actors, playwrights, journalists, stagehands and mayors. |
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Instead, the characters pontificate to the audience. |
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This is the crucial point, and I hope members opposite are listening to this, because this is a fact that may assist them as they continue to pontificate and mislead through the day. |
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This flow will not cease' Francis has made migration one of the priorities of his pontificate and will likely raise the issue when he visits the US in September. |
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Antipope Clement III was an alternative pope for most of this period, and Pope Urban spent much of his early pontificate in exile from Rome. |
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During his pontificate, Pope John XXIII recommended the reading of Duns Scotus's theology to modern theology students. |
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During his pontificate, his political commitment, the many diplomatic relationships he developed and his many messages of peace have made him a Pope who has left his mark on his century. |
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The eight scant years of his pontificate were important in the political, scientific, and literary history of the world. |
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In keeping with the spirit of the gospel, during his pontificate, he will also continue to undertake every effort to ensure that all human life is lived with dignity, justice and solidarity. |
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In contrast to the preceding pontificate, Pope Alexander VI adhered initially to strict administration of justice and orderly government. |
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The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate. |
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Although this occurred after the death of Leo IX, the outbreak of the formal schism correctly belongs to his pontificate, which in several ways therefore marked a caesura in the history of the papacy in medieval times. |
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That same Government, which had blatantly disregarded the Geneva Conventions and other human rights instruments, had the audacity to pontificate before the Committee about respect for human rights. |
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One after the other, leaders of the rich nations stood before the General Assembly to pontificate flummeries which masked their governments' calumnious behaviour in the world. |
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Therefore his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing his pontificate. |
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Benedict XV, elected to the papacy less than three months into World War I, made the war and its consequences the main focus of his early pontificate. |
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From 1095 under the pontificate of Urban II, the Crusades were launched. |
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