To contemplate Mr. Santorum winning the nomination, you probably have to contemplate him winning a state like California.
Graham contemplates him from behind: "Even his ears were perfect... neat, simple, the lobe furred with a faint, fair down.
To read and then contemplate him is to be lifted a little bit above the earth in a floating bubble.
But if I believe in God and a blissful afterlife contemplating him, then even if I am wrong I will not be disappointed.
"I began to contemplate him as a possible recruit to help me in the spying business," Mr. Walker said, explaining that family problems were forcing him to retire from the Navy.
Ansari also opens the batting for Surrey in red-ball cricket, though it really is premature to contemplate him doing that at a higher level in the immediate future.
Or the thirty-three-year-old real-estate agent in New York, who warns anyone contemplating him as a host, "If you are not fun, social, cool, not looking to go out and enjoy the nightlife of NYC, please request elsewhere, I do not want someone that goes to bed at 10pm.
This applies even if you never came into contact with him, and if this is nothing more than a distillation of fan-worship (Cook's extraordinary good looks when young didn't hurt), it is hard to shake off when contemplating him.
As we contemplate him, we recall that a couple of years ago, in All the King's Men, Sean Penn played the Huey Long figure, assassinated by a deranged opponent, and that Gus Van Sant's last film to win wide acclaim was Elephant, his attempt to explain the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.
Hitchens's proposal is that there is a covert plan by a sophisticated metropolitan elite – political party immaterial – to allow the de facto, if not de jure, decriminalisation of the pharmacopoeia, in the teeth of principled and honest objection from the silent majority, of which he presumably includes himself, not that silence is the overwhelming impression one has when contemplating him.
No, but if you recall, everyone loved "maverick" back-slappy John McCain until they had to start seriously contemplating him as president.
