But the mere fact that Mr. Gibbs said it launched a thousand ships of speculation, analysis, attacks and counter-attacks.
Jackson, for his part, was trapped in his own skin — and has anyone's skin ever been such a topic of speculation, analysis, and criticism?
This speculation, this analysis of the political climate in which the attacks took place, can only be a good thing.
It was a perfect show for the Internet age, engendering amateur speculation and analysis from bloggers around the world.
"There's been speculation and analysis that the Eastern Conference will be better this upcoming season, and it very well may be," Grunwald said.
Its rules, its criteria for release, its record keeping, its motivations and its political bent, or lack thereof, have all been the subject of much speculation and analysis in recent weeks.
This at once obviates the difficult and serious part of any biographer's job (getting to the truth), and – happily – allows any amount of hearsay to be presented as fact, circumstantial evidence (the war was awful!) as probative, or speculation as analysis.
Although a selection from the mostly handwritten journal was published in 1991 as In the Pursuit of VALIS: Selections from the Exegesis, thousands of pages of Dick's journal, including autobiographical material, philosophical speculation and analysis of his fiction, have not been published.
The point is, despite several years of speculation and analysis, the final story still surprised everyone, even the experts.
And, as a result, the moves its new CEO makes becomes the subject of ridiculously intense, global scrutiny, armchair speculation and analysis, and a deafening level of peanut gallery twitter blabber devoid of any reason or context.
Dear Jennifer Lawrence, You and I don't know each other, but I work in tech news and, as such, have read a lot of technical speculation and analysis of what happened to you and a group of other women who work in Hollywood over the long weekend.
