'cogitation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to think deeply or carefully about something. For example, "I had to do a lot of cogitation before deciding to take this job".
It has been clear at least since his mighty Afghanistan cogitation in the summer of 2009 that in foreign policy Mr Obama is a details man, a decider and not a delegator.
Nonetheless, some explanations do offer themselves.In this section A long-running opera of soap Divided we stand Built to last Spectator sport A game of colour and spin The view from Gringolandia Chicago's Millennium Park Reprints Related items Churning at the topMar 15th 2001First, his ideas are not the products of isolated cogitation.
There is now a policy team devoted to "behaviourial insight" in the Cabinet Office.If this seems like cogitation for its own sake, then remember that many of the government's policies, such as schools reform, elected police commissioners and data transparency, were hatched during years of such feverish thinking in opposition.
Unfortunately, the speech and the paper suggest that neither prolonged cogitation nor extravagant consultation have produced much that is new.
Why? Giampiero, his head bowed in deep cogitation over a glass of 2002 Rosso Riserva, emerged and said: "When the moon goes down, your hair grows more slowly.
Privacy is the current fetish of the educated classes, which might be explained by how little regard they show for their own, tweeting their every prejudice and perturbation, blogging whatever resemblance to cogitation passes through their minds, and distributing compromising selfies for a cruel world to snigger over.
This gripping story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague in 1942 has a highly original narrative, in which the author seems to share with the reader his cogitations on what to include in the story.
The cacophony of demands for actual ideas is just a chimera created by the paradigm of elitism to ensure the survival of the status quo to derail didactic cogitations about reality!
At their best, his cogitations reveal a mind that is wide-ranging, diligent and sensitive to complexity and fine distinctions.
Many a novelist thereafter kept a precise record of his cogitations, anxieties, and harrowing moments of inability to create.
Among the thousands of travel books on Italy, there are a few masterpieces of rapturous or humorous prose: in English, the writings of D.H. Lawrence on Sardinia, on Etruscan Italy, and on the Italian character are more lucid and less strained than other of his prose cogitations.
