Such is the speculative state of affairs that in recent days State Senator Malcolm A. Smith of Queens has surfaced in the Republican chatter, an interesting turn considering that his brief tenure as Senate majority leader did not invite comparisons to the Age of Pericles.
Television anchors have interviewed wedding planners who have nothing to do with the Clintons, prodding them to engage in highly speculative discussion of what the affair might look like.
Monds blamed this state of affairs on the "speculative" operation of a steam-powered mill, just a short distance uphill.
Nonetheless, the Schadenfreude of onlookers is as misplaced as are many of the lessons that the world's instant moralisers have hurried to extract from the affair.The Busang affair was not, first of all, a speculative frenzy such as the Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century or the South Sea Bubble of the 18th.
Most of them are to be considered as highly speculative as they truly reflect the present state of affairs in full development.
Early in the present decade, whenever Americans began warning that finance was becoming dangerously speculative, defenders of business as usual solemnly warned that if we began regulating the affair, the show would move offshore to London, finance's new wild west.
Home Secretary Theresa May told the Commons home affairs committee that the projected cuts in police numbers were "entirely speculative".
Extra time was a cagey affair and the match looked likely to go to penalties until Darby strode forward and struck a speculative shot that beat keeper Stuart Tomlinson and found the bottom corner.
This is speculative architecture".
Meanwhile, the TV and radio news and current affairs programmes were following custom and practice by using the negative headlines as a peg for interviews and speculative analysis, all of it suggesting that the Labour leader was toast.
