Sentence examples for make one ponder from inspiring English sources
"make one ponder" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to cause someone to think deeply or consider something carefully. You can use it in a variety of contexts, but it is often used to describe something that is thought-provoking, thought-provoking, or intriguing. For example: - The speaker's words made us all ponder the meaning of life. - The novel's ending was so unexpected that it left me pondering its implications for days. - This poem is short but it will make you ponder the complexities of human nature. - Spending time in nature always makes me ponder the wonders of the world. - The professor's lectures were always filled with interesting ideas that made us ponder the possibilities of the future.
(This may be for home crowds what it is for western viewers to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger interacting with those talking meerkats: enough to make one ponder the long-term mental effects of consuming all that whey protein).
We are about halfway to 2017 with a set of gruesome and indignities that can make one ponder if pessimism is the only proper viewpoint.
The detailed sections on feet and spurs and, especially, combs make one ponder about the adaptive and evolutionary purposes that lead to peculiarities like, say, the comb of the Minorca black hen, something like a many-fingered red rubber glove abandoned on her head.
It does make one ponder the awesome power of the profit motive.
As an assemblage, these images have the capacity to haunt, to make one ponder, even as the extreme neutrality of Mr. Handke's writing has an anesthetizing effect and makes one yearn for less purity and a good old-fashioned plot.
Go to the house of the painters Merlin James and Carol Rhodes, at 42 Carlton Place, and you will see an extraordinary miscellany, including paintings by Sickert and Derain, to make one ponder how (and when) contemporary art becomes the art of the past.
It also makes one ponder the word stuff, one of the most overused words in the language.
Meanwhile at the O'Hana Gallery in Carlos Place, W.1, a collection of pastels, water colours, and drawings done mainly between 1900 and 1903 makes one ponder.
Just as this film makes one ponder the strange quiddity of shadows – that they are caused by us, and in some profound sense representations of us, and yet neither self-portraits nor even quite images of us – so the black-and-white self-portraits in the opening gallery are not conventional depictions either.
Driving the roads around Pound Ridge, Bedford and Crossriver makes one ponder the cultural impulse behind these ribbons of black-topped perfection.
His stories of how his own mistakes angered Mr Felt, and put his continuing co-operation at risk, are intriguing, both in themselves and for making one ponder how things might have turned out differently had Deep Throat gone silent.
