Considered broadly, it's a question for the team's management and coaching staff (and players, for that matter) to ponder over the summer, and it's for them to think about the makeup of the squad, the way it operates, trains and so forth.
But he doesn't just tinker with these new toys to show off their cool tech-fair features; he seeks ways to make them enlighten us about society, perception, human behavior and other weighty matters he likes to ponder.
Ms. Adams, impersonating Earhart as a flame-haired screwball-comedy heroine, is entirely delightful, though whether the pioneering pilot would ever have developed a crush on Ben Stiller is a matter for scholars to ponder.
Any officer in the nuclear chain of command of the United States, Britain or France, faced with an order to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state would be obliged, as a matter of law, to ponder those words with care.
"Ms. Adams, impersonating Earhart as a flame-haired screwball-comedy heroine, is entirely delightful," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "though whether the pioneering pilot would ever have developed a crush on Ben Stiller is a matter for scholars to ponder".
Ask anyone who has recoiled at the abbatoir butchery in Georges Franju's "Blood of the Beasts," wept at the death of Robert Bresson's saintlike donkey Balthazar (or Bambi's mother, for that matter) or paused to ponder the fate of the ox in "Apocalypse Now," the horse in "Andrei Rublev" or the dogs in "Amores Perros".
On Monday, there were matters weightier than usual to ponder.
And a very different Rudolph Giuliani has returned from his perch to ponder matters that transcend politics.
Watching Owen Jones trying to ponder matters economic rather brings to mind Dr. Johnson's comment about watching a woman preacher.
Rather than putting the plays in service of an ideological program, Thinking with Shakespeare encourages readers to ponder matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side.
