He brimmed with enthusiasms and self-confidence and issued pronouncements on all sorts of subjects, which amused some of the Rhodes scholars and irritated others.
Pledging that the new Algeria would "serve as a beacon" to the third world, he took to wearing a simple blue Mao jacket and issuing pronouncements like "Castro is my brother, Nasser is my teacher, Tito is my example".
She is full of opinions — it bothers her that Simon, the über-controlling, soon-to-be-divorced husband on "Orange County" blogged about his marital problems — and is fond of issuing pronouncements on her own celebrity status: "I like being in an ensemble.
Unlike fellow pop-star enigmas such as Prince, Bowie actually is on Twitter, issuing pronouncements to the 66,000 followers he's amassed since 2009 about everything from deluxe reissues to his son's wedding.
"It's very easy for us removed from where the real social poverty problems are to issue our pronouncements".
When the aliens attack in the 21st-century version of "War of the Worlds," there's no one around to supply explanations, theories and plans of action, to stare with furrowed brow at exotic instruments and make complex calculations, to consult with military leaders and heads of government, or even to issue somber pronouncements on the fate of the human race.
In stipulating further that the Roman pontiffs, as successors in the Petrine primacy, possess the authority to issue infallible pronouncements in matters of faith or morals, the council cited both Matthew 16:18 ff. and Christ's promise to Peter at the Last Supper: But I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.
Note the presumptive "we," beloved of hacks from the beginning of time, and how from it one may assume the Wide Stance of the Expert, from which p.o.v. the writer is then able to issue further pronouncements about, uh, "us".
I looked up to issue my pronouncement and to share this momentous occasion with the waiters.
The officials onstage issued wooden pronouncements on Russia's many achievements.
