Unlike Tolstoy, George Eliot is someone who becomes increasingly likeable as one learns more about her, so her all-embracing but benign imagination is like a climate in which you remain after putting the book down, to ponder its suggestions and conclusions.
"Perhaps you should search for a teaching job?" I pause to ponder the suggestion.
As we take leave of summer activities to prepare for fall's arrival (Saturday, Sept. 22), may you find the time and attention to ponder these two suggestions.
As I eagerly await any and all suggestions, I ponder the various lexicons that mystify or vex people trying to keep a sense of self intact after dire diagnoses and sometimes draconian treatments.
Back at the Café Gijón I ponder my friend's suggestion.
In another recording she ponders the repeated suggestion that Miss Marple and Poirot, two of her most prominent characters, should be introduced to each other.
Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, pondered an American suggestion that he should freeze the building of Jewish settlements on the West Bank for another 60 days in exchange for American security and political guarantees.
His students followed his suggestion, pondering whether the experiment failed because of antacid tablets that had lost their fizz, too much water in the canisters or some other flaw in the materials.
Terra Firma, the private-equity group that owns it, has called in the advisory arm of Blackstone, another private-equity outfit, to ponder its future (there is no suggestion that Four Seasons will cease to operate).
Hermes will approach the board and ask for a strategic review, present its suggestions and leave directors to ponder.
These are suggestions we can more than ponder, but test in our own life and in our yoga practice to discover for ourselves what they might mean.
