Sentence examples for a speculation on from inspiring English sources

This procedure which was so far Pythagorean led later, perhaps in the Platonic Academy, to a speculation on "polygonal" numbers.

The "model village" part was a speculation on Arkwright's part, no more.

A British anthropolgist, D.C. Arnold, has just published a speculation on the discovery of fire by prehistoric man He believes that the first domestic blaze was produced not by a stray bolt of lightning or a volcanic eruption but by a cave man who woke up one morning to find his bed in flames.

She made numerous documentaries, including films about music and dance, and Là-bas (2006), a speculation on Israel.

The Beckettian echoes are deliberate since, for all its nods to Eliot, Kafka and Wilde, the play often seems like a speculation on what would happen if Vladimir and Estragon turned up in Elsinore.

The New Yorker, February 10 , 1962P. 27 A British anthropolgist, D.C. Arnold, has just published a speculation on the discovery of fire by prehistoric man He believes that the first domestic blaze was produced not by a stray bolt of lightning or a volcanic eruption but by a cave man who woke up one morning to find his bed in flames.

"This is just a speculation based on research," she told me, "but when you get married, there's less novelty and more conforming" — quicker adapting.

The rest of the show is a sentimental speculation on what might have happened had he stayed a little longer.

Consider this passage from The Rig Veda as a metaphysical speculation on abstraction, the emergence of artistic creation.

This is a pure speculation on my part, but I don't think Nico thought of herself as a singer at that point.

Indeed, Mr Chubais's criticism of the Yukos affair has recently become somewhat more muted, suggesting that he may have been read the riot act.Corporate KremlinologyDeducing what, exactly, Mr Chubais is up to, and whether Mr Putin is likely to tolerate it, is a game of speculation on a par with Soviet-era Kremlinology.