And yet, in pondering the causes of his trouble, Dan couldn't avoid the feeling that the world had singled him out for some terrible payback, that it must have been his fault, that the failure was his alone and he had no right to anyone else's help.
We have been pondering the causes of male-pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia, for centuries.
In the years before the Australian find, scientists who pondered the cause of the Permian extinction had suggested a change in the composition of the earth's atmosphere, volcanoes in Siberia and the lowering of global sea levels.
Experts have long pondered the cause of the crisis that led to the collapse of civilization in the Late Bronze Age, and now believe that by studying grains of fossilized pollen they have uncovered the cause.
Whatever it is, I suggest others ponder the cause of their frustration, why they don't apply it universally and why still others suspect something dark in their soul.
This thesis, so widely discussed when it was published just two years ago, should be in the forefront of all our minds as we ponder the causes of the violence and plan how to eliminate them.
If you survey all these former highfliers and ponder the causes of their demise, you might conclude that beyond the names and industry segments nothing much has changed about Silicon Valley.
To the Editor: Your article rightly ponders the root causes of this troubling epidemic of military suicide, but we also need to ask how we can improve our response.
As artists, poets, philosophers, and scholars pondered the physical causes and material stuff of the cosmos, they conjured up disasters out of thin air and responded as though to events that were befalling them.
"I had been pondering the things that hold a society together, cause it to congregate and signify its particular character and knew I needed a sport".
