It's simply impossible to assess the truth of Lord's pronouncements without watching Taylor's backlog of films.
As one of the nation's most powerful governors, she has often angered New Jersey lawmakers, even in her own party, by handing down major policy pronouncements without seeking their input.
It irks me somewhat that the "blogging community" can be so myopic about their little world that they make such pronouncements, without any obvious understanding of the realities of other communities, other kinds of consumers.
The original term was used in the 19th century German School of Economics, where academic social policy advocates were deprecated as "socialists of the chair" (Kathedersozialisten). 1 The term has evolved from its Germanic roots, especially in the popular media, to now whimsically characterise middle class people who make political pronouncements without engaging in political activism.
It flashes on a television screen that's in the background of a scene set in Pakistan; the movie's terrorist-hunters, who are holding a meeting, barely look up, letting Obama's pronouncement pass without comment.
That there is a debate at all suggests how much has changed since the first years after 9/11, when no official pronouncement was complete without an assurance that the attacks, the victims, the rescuers and the survivors would never be forgotten; and when any use of patriotic motifs seemed to be beyond public reproach, no matter how cynical or sentimental.
Their pronouncement was not without foundation.
Hardly a day went by, nor a newspaper column escaped untouched, without a pronouncement against student activists.
That your writer allowed Santorum to drop such an inflammatory pronouncement into the interview without calling for him to explain himself was disappointing.
Scarcely a week goes by without a new pronouncement on how mothers with jobs should marry their responsibilities.
