But we should spend more time exploring ideas that — somehow — address the core issue.
We all have private selves, of course, but people who live alone spend a good deal more time exploring them.
But Mr. Kilroy spends more time exploring purple verbiage than emotional truths, reducing Bosie to a bloviating codger.
Some readers may be irked that Millet doesn't spend more time exploring the enticing contents of that basement.
She probably needs to spend more time exploring the insides of her characters rather than constructing a dense maze of narrative to tie them convincingly together.
One wishes that Yehoshua had spent more time exploring Moses' quest for absolution rather than detailing the minutiae of the director's films — which bear striking thematic resemblances to his own early works.
Another aide, Patrick Brennan, who was the political director of Mr. Bloomberg's 2005 re-election campaign, resigned as commissioner of the city's Community Assistance Unit earlier this year to spend more time exploring the mayor's possible national campaign.
Brandon is also a fiction writer, and she leans heavily on the novels of the period to provide cultural background; she might have spent more time exploring the ways in which a novelist's imagination transformed the governess's actual experience.
And the president's decision to pull out of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty still rankles that part of the administration that wanted to take more time exploring alternatives to withdrawal with Russia.
Or I use creative scheduling: "I know we have reservations for the train tomorrow, but this town is so lovely I'd really like to spend some more time exploring it".
One wishes that Yehoshua had spent more time exploring Moses' quest for absolution rather than detailing the minutiae of the director's films which bear striking thematic resemblances to his own early works.
